Wednesday 16 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

One of the NERV clan found a rather neat link to some tips on playing TF2 as Pyro.

The text scrolls past far too past to read. (Pause button FTW!) Some interesting tips there — most of which I have so far failed to put into practice.

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Tuesday 15 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

I just took delivery of 2 Dell Lattitude D630 laptops (with carry cases this time) and 3 rack-mount Cisco Catalyst 3560 network switches. (The latter even came with the correct power cables!) It’s like Christmas in here…

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Thursday 10 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

We’re moving. Just over the road, a new building is being constructed for us. [And several other tennants, you understand. But partly for us.] Obviously, we’d like our new building to have Internet access.

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Thursday 10 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Just before Christmas, a Dell laptop arrived from America. Apparently the guys at HQ were unable to order a UK power supply though, so they asked me to do it when the machine arrived.

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Thursday 10 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Our Director of IT has a dream. He wants all the PCs in the company to be identical.

This is not a silly thing to aim for. In fact, it makes quite a lot of sense. However, the method they have chosen for doing this is to replace all our PCs with… Dell PCs.

Obviously, this is a problem. Dell equipment is on average between 2x and 5x more expensive than normal PCs. Sure, it makes sense to standardise. But why standardise on the most over-priced thing on the market? Why not HP? Or IBM? They’re both big players, and sell good quality stuff at sane prices.

But no, the contract was signed with Dell several years ago, and there is apparently no getting out of it now. It makes my spine tingle to think of the millions of dollars we must have wasted so far on Dell. [All the more reason to not move to something else now…]

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Thursday 10 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

I’m getting really tired of WP eating my carefully entered formatting. I do not spend 25 minutes meticulously entering intricate formatting so WP can throw it all away and make my text look like a dog’s dinner! This is really frustrating me now.

Time to finish my WP replacement…

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Thursday 10 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

In many ways, Jeff Wayne and his musical adaptation of the War of the Worlds is a bit like Lucas and his Star Wars.

Lucas made Star Wars. It was low-tech and kinda cheesy and clunky, but it was cool. And it was wildly successful. He made two further films, which were likewise very successful. (In my humble opinion, the final one was the best.)

Some time passed. The films came out in “special edition” versions. A few rough edges were polished, a few unfinished things sorted out. And yes, one or two bits of superficial eye candy were added. But overall, it was an improvement.

And then Lucas decided to make three brand new films. And they all sucked. I mean, the first one isn’t too bad, but after that they become progressively worse. It’s like the guy has totally forgotten what makes films enjoyable or something…

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Tuesday 08 Jan 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

I’d just like to share this rather random quote with you:

The Laplacian of a function is the trace of function’s Hessian.

What the hell?

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