It’s been just over a week since my father passed away. I am so tired in the evenings. I need to get a bunch of vitamin supplements. I’m back in the city, thinking about all the work I need to get back to and it’s not making me very happy. I nearly had a panic attack in Tesco yesterday, the people were getting on my nerves and I was not operating on all cylinders.
My father was deeply loved by all the people in both Castleisland and Castlegregory – so many people came to give their respects that we were overwhelmed.
It rained as we lay his body in the family tomb. You may think this is some hoity-toity thing, but in that tomb are my great-grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, grand-uncle Dick, who was the doctor that delivered my father and my own father. There is an immense amount of family history there in one place.
Sorry, can’t really continue with this.
My father passed away last night
My father passed away last night following a heart attack. It was sudden and completely unexpected.
The removal takes place tomorrow evening in Tagneys funeral home, Castleisland from 5.00pm until 7.30pm.
The funeral mass takes place in the church in Castleisland on Tuesday at 11am.
Jesus wasn’t crucified…
He just forgot his safety word. Thank you PCH.
And now to brunch…
How many pedants does it take to change a lightbulb
Well, it all depends. It really should be a compact flourescent light bulb, and if you’re replacing one of those you should ask yourself why you’re replacing one a I’ve never experienced one blowing out in my lifetime and I’ve asked people and neither have they so the entire problem is one of faulty wiring in your house so you should probably get that seen to.
This is a universal patch for linux 2.6- whatever
This is the official declaration of a patch for the linux kernel. It provides for the replacement of all GPL only exported symbols with generically exported symbols.
While the code is trivial, I hereby declare that it is copyright 2007 Pete Shanahan.
It is, itself subject to the GPL, so there.
Starting from the kernel source directory issue the following command:
for i in $(find . -type f); do sed -i -e 's/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/' $i done
If someone is putting multiple symbols on a line, then you have my permission to use:
for i in $(find . -type f); do sed -i -e 's/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g' $i done
Gosh, now that wasn’t difficult, now was it?
This developer created this patch while under the influence of several personally made martinis, a couple of beers and a few shots of vodka (it was nice, though), so if the spelling of any of the code is incorrect then feel free to correct it, send me a patch and I’ll add you as a contributor to it. After all, we’re all pragmatists together.
Ooooooh, these licenses will kill me
The GPL is a difficult beast.
all those MODULE_EXPORT_GPL symbols.
F**k them.
I’m just going to release a patch that remaps them all to MODULE_EXPORT.
The patch is GPL.
F**k you I’m a pragmatist, not an idealist.
This was written at 3am, I am drunk and I’m bitter. You know who I am.
I don’t prefix my posts with ‘yes, I drink…’, you should know what I’m like, after all; you’re here
The grammar of these ‘please install this virus’ amazes me
This is one of the typical messages. The fun thing about this one is the grammar says the opposite of what they meant.
We recommend you to install a firewall module and it will stop e-mail sending. Otherwise your account will be blocked until you do not eliminate malfunction.
So, in other words if I don’t install this patch, you won’t block my email. Ain’t it sweet 🙂
Fascinating concept of ‘sharing’ in Vista
It turns out that if the privileges on a file/folder contain users/groups other than the standard set (Owner – explicit or CREATOR OWNER, SYSTEM and for the most part Administrators) then it assumes that you’re sharing it – even if the users in question have no privileges on the file. While I agree with the idea in concept, the terminology is too vague. There’s sharing, in the local concept – which is to say that the privileges are relaxed enough to allow access to the file by users other than yourself and then there’s sharing in the remote sense – which is to say that the file can be accessed from a remote system. Honestly, I’d not have used the moniker of ‘sharing’ the file.
hardware DEP on vista has interesting interactions
Well vista is being a bit of a pain. When hardware DEP was switched on in XP service pack 2, I immediately went and turned on the ‘opt out’ policy – i.e. I would selectively switch on the applications that needed to have hardware DEP disabled. Most of my applications worked well, and the few exceptions were easy to take care of.
For some bizarre reason I don’t get the option of disabling hardware dep on applications that crash under vista; or at least it may be selective.
dvdidle pro is one of those applications which started crashing under Vista. The problem was that it only said ‘this program has stopped working’, no explanations given. When I went and manually disabled DEP for it it all started running just fine again. I prefer to have a longer lasting battery, thank you very much.
Spiderman 3… just don’t
Sorry kids, I know what was being attempted. Unfortunately it just killed. The pacing was all over the place. There were too many bad guys. The character development was surreal.