Inches and miles

They‘re forcing you to virtualize your production SVN server. Your physical server has eight physical cores that can act as sixteen thanks to hyper-threading. The virtual machine they give you has two cores. You ask for sixteen. They hold at two. You make the switch-over and go live and the new virtual machine tanks. You…

Witty

Best quote so far of the 2014 Giant Repository Tools Relocation Effort: Powershell is very powerful, but incredibly broken as a language.

Missed connections

I really like this. If Craigslist could make this an actual sub-site I would be an avid contributor. Missed Connections for A-holes [1]. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/05/missed-connections-for-a-holes.html

It works

My ghetto stir plate in action: Cannibalized computer case fan and some cheap parts from Radio Shack make the stir bar go around. LED light is totally gratuitous.

Shoot the receptionist first

Why I Drink reason #376: Security theater emails that make the most convenient doors off-limits because they’re “unsupervised”. They’re badge-access controlled and have video monitoring but apparently that is not enough. So now when a disgruntled employee wants to shoot up the place, they’re just going to have to shoot the receptionist first I guess.…