Hacker for Hire

Cabling an entire data center gives you a lot of time to think. Mainly about how many different ways you could maim your boss and get away with it, but other things as well. Today I was thinking about how lazy people annoy the flipping crap out of me. One of the big ones is the stupid “Handicap Accessible” buttons that are placed on many doors. Generally, these buttons are about 6-8 feet away from the door. Now this is the part that I don’t get. People will walk the extra 6 feet out of the way, wait for 10 seconds for the door to open instead of just opening the door by hand. It’s kind of like tearing apart the whole living room to find the remote and walking by the TV 5 times while you are looking for it. I for the life of me cannot see the logic in it. But what really irks me about it is when this non-handicapped moron in front of me has to go push the stupid button, I have to wait and waste my time while this mofo meanders through the slow opening door. But it’s even better when the button doesn’t work. They push it and walk towards the door and when it doesn’t open, they walk back and push it again. Sometimes twice if they are really stupid. Then, when the door doesn’t open, it’s usually followed by a sigh of exhasperation and them slowly going to open the door because it’s just so damn hard to pull open a door. No wonder a third of America suffers from obesity if most of us are too lazy to open our own door. People should get flogged for being that stupid; however, if you listen to “They Might Be Giants,” you should know that:

People should get beat up for stating their beliefs.

Well, I’ve not posted in a bit, but that’s because nothing has been new. I had to de-cable the same data center that I had to run cable in this last week. All of the cable had to be removed from these server racks and it was going to be thrown away. I repeat thrown away. It took me over and hour and a half to remove all this cable because they wouldn’t let me cut it. They couldn’t give me any good reason why, other than I wasn’t allowed. Mind you, this is crappy, untested, un-certified cable with all missing the little snag boots. After I got done I told them I could have had the job completed in an hour if they would have let me cut the cable. The response was, “Yeah, I was really thinking about letting you do that.” I’m sorry my friends, but that is just stupid. At least as I write this, Sara is flying through the air at break neck speeds on her way back from California. Then I’ll at least have someone to torment again .

Should it be “It’s More Alive” or “It’s Aliver?” That I can’t really say. But after lots of pain and suffering combined with nothing to do at work, I finally brought life back into my server. Yes, I know it’s been running recently, but now it’s been taken off the oscilloscope and binary bit pump. What that means to you is bupkiss. But what it means to me is that my Mythtv box now functions again with all the bells and whistles that I had for it. There is one thing I would really like to do, and that’s actually have other audio (i.e. not TV) output through the PVR-350 but IVTV doesn’t really let you do that. I’m not really sure if you can do that at all, but it sounds like something that I should research. I’m willing to be that if Windows Media Center can do it, the open source guys can’t be too far behind. Maybe I’ll dedicate a little time to seeing if I can help out in making that a possibility.

Pardon my French, but those stupid fricken morons with idiots for parents and a learning disability of a butt pirate on crack tick me off big time. Who are they you ask? I’ll tell you. It’s the developers that write in Java and put in very specific lines of code. But I finally found it you egg sucking skanks. I found where Sun is helping you horrible people to write bad code and screw the world over. What am I referring to you ask? I’m referring to the 40 flipping versions of Java that I have to have installed on my machine in order to use various pages on the Internet.

Apparently, there is a little tag that you can put in to ask for YOUR specific version of Java so that you can be a lazy jerk and write crappy code. This stupid link tells morons how to specifically request their version of Java to be used. That is the stupidest thing ever. Do I ever write an application and say, you have to use minor version 2.3.1 of GCC to compile it? I might say you need GCC 2 or GCC 3, because they changed standards conformance but nothing stupid like you need 2.2.2_rc1_nightly5_hour4 because I DON’T WRITE CRAPPY COMPILER SPECIFIC CODE. If I could get a hold of you dumb bastards, I would cram my 57″ lead pipe up your ass and drop in a cherry bomb after cherry bomb and laugh in joyous torment at causing you the pain you have distributed to the rest of the world. That goes for you at Sun as well, you started it so you would be first on the list of pipe full of cherry bombs up the ass dispersal.