Once in a while you encounter something so delicious & beautiful, it makes your life significantly better.
Master Boot Record is such a thing. I am addicted. Especially his masterpiece Interrupt Request is now a regular occurrence in my playlist because it's simply awesome.
From power-metal to symphonic-metal, and a lot of trash thrown into it, we're told it's all done in a 486DX machine with 64GB of RAM, and a sequencer software. It's very MIDI, but in a good way.
I have listened to various chiptunes in the past, but apparently this is called Dark Synth Wave. Some also call it synth-metal. I have my own name for it, fucking awesome music. As far as I'm concerned, no other categorizations are necessary.
You can get the whole discography for peanuts from Bandcamp, and I'd definitely recommend Internet Protocol and Interrupt Request, but there are too many favourites to select from. Do your own thing, and this chap definitely does that.
Not only the music is great, the fan experience is awesome. The albums come with cryptic puzzles you have to solve, the last album came out with an IRC channel & a telnet-enabled BBS with ANSI support where you can get hints for the puzzle, and this unlocks extra songs. Overall the enjoyment factor goes to 11 with Master Boot Record, you don't get a half-arsed CD print.
Oh yeah, if you're inclined to do so, you can actually get the albums on cassette player! Full retrograde orbit achieved! Also you can get them on floppy disc as well, 5.25" style - half the kids in the office don't even know what a floppy disk is...
This is a great time for us, the music, the media, the internet empires, they're all built by us geeks, for us geeks. Shame about Facebook and no-longer "do-no-evil" Google, but hey, there's still good music to head bang to.
Did I mention, you can get pretty much all Master Boot Record songs on his YouTube channel. What not to like about this guy...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Friday, October 13, 2017
TortoiseGit loses its overlay icons...
Windows suck.
Run Regedit.
Open
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
Locate Tortoise entries.
Make sure they are at the top of the sort list, if necessary add things like " 1" to the name. F5 to refresh.
Kill all running Explorer processes, rerun a new Explorer process from Task Manager, if necessary. If you are too scared, simply relogin.
What happens is, OneDrive POS interferes with the Tortoise shell icon overlay extension. Mikisoft has become cleverer and does the same kind of trick in the ordering with spaces in the One Drive names. Simply sorting Tortoise names earlier than One Drive icons solves the issue.
Run Regedit.
Open
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
Locate Tortoise entries.
Make sure they are at the top of the sort list, if necessary add things like " 1" to the name. F5 to refresh.
Kill all running Explorer processes, rerun a new Explorer process from Task Manager, if necessary. If you are too scared, simply relogin.
What happens is, OneDrive POS interferes with the Tortoise shell icon overlay extension. Mikisoft has become cleverer and does the same kind of trick in the ordering with spaces in the One Drive names. Simply sorting Tortoise names earlier than One Drive icons solves the issue.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
SystemD must die die die - firewallD
Sigh... More here.
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-icmp-block=echo-reply --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Twatters...
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-icmp-block=echo-reply --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Twatters...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015
LoadRunner, SSH and Remote Agents
I'm running LoadRunner 11.52, RTE with SSH and some remote agent servers to run the load.
And it won't work. The scripts work fine with Vugen but won't work with the Controller.
The reason is this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ericom Software\SSH\SshHostKeys]
"rsa2@22:blablabla"="0x25,randomstringforsshkey"
This little piece of crap needs to be in the registry before Ericom - which LoadRunner uses for your SSH connection can connect. It doesn't use Plink, it doesn't use any clever stuff. And if you're using a remote agent with a local system account, whatever I tried - IT DOES NOT WORK!
There are people who claim if you convert this into a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry entry, it should work, it did not in my case.
In the end I threw up the towel, asked the LR agent to be run as a named user, ran the script ONCE with that user using Vugen - this loaded the key into the registry - and then everything worked from the Controller.
The key is loaded to the registry when you connect to it first time - it pops up a window and asks if you are happy with the fingerprint and want to save it - which you answer by clicking to the "YESSSS" button", unless you're an idiot.
Guess what. LoadRunner is not clever enough to auto-accept this key if you are running this inside the controller. It still prompts for it. You just never see the prompt. It's hanging there, in the ether, waiting for a ghost to find it and try to touch with its cotton rags and see if it can activate the YESSSSSSSS button, forever....
Of course, this is very annoying. For every different server and every different controller you want to use, you have to go through this.
You can have short-cuts. You can do it in one server, then save the registry keys and import into the servers but still, you got to use a named user, just don't bother with the local system account, it's just not worth the stress it's going to cause you.
Probably will apply to 12 as well.
And it won't work. The scripts work fine with Vugen but won't work with the Controller.
The reason is this:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ericom Software\SSH\SshHostKeys]
"rsa2@22:blablabla"="0x25,randomstringforsshkey"
This little piece of crap needs to be in the registry before Ericom - which LoadRunner uses for your SSH connection can connect. It doesn't use Plink, it doesn't use any clever stuff. And if you're using a remote agent with a local system account, whatever I tried - IT DOES NOT WORK!
There are people who claim if you convert this into a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry entry, it should work, it did not in my case.
In the end I threw up the towel, asked the LR agent to be run as a named user, ran the script ONCE with that user using Vugen - this loaded the key into the registry - and then everything worked from the Controller.
The key is loaded to the registry when you connect to it first time - it pops up a window and asks if you are happy with the fingerprint and want to save it - which you answer by clicking to the "YESSSS" button", unless you're an idiot.
Guess what. LoadRunner is not clever enough to auto-accept this key if you are running this inside the controller. It still prompts for it. You just never see the prompt. It's hanging there, in the ether, waiting for a ghost to find it and try to touch with its cotton rags and see if it can activate the YESSSSSSSS button, forever....
Of course, this is very annoying. For every different server and every different controller you want to use, you have to go through this.
You can have short-cuts. You can do it in one server, then save the registry keys and import into the servers but still, you got to use a named user, just don't bother with the local system account, it's just not worth the stress it's going to cause you.
Probably will apply to 12 as well.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Why you shouldn't hate and disable NetworkManager anymore
James Hogarth has posted a nice mail to the CentOS mailing list on why we shouldn't hate NetworkManager anymore and linked to a very good article on the nmcli. One should bookmark this for future reference.
I used to loathe things that make life easy by trying to "wrap things up" since they make edge cases significantly harder to resolve (and what I mean by edge cases is, servers) but I give up. Life is too short arguing about such things on and on. Eventually things get resolved and people move on I guess and I got to accept NetworkManager instead of fighting against it doing stupid things against my will. Hopefully enough things have been fixed so that it's now sane enough.
I am still against distributions doing "their own things" on such fundamental levels, I accept that I do not matter in the big scheme of things.
IMHO, such basic operations like networking should be standardized across platforms so that we can achieve such operations w/o worrying about such stupid things. I should expect to have certain things always in my service...
Oh well..
I used to loathe things that make life easy by trying to "wrap things up" since they make edge cases significantly harder to resolve (and what I mean by edge cases is, servers) but I give up. Life is too short arguing about such things on and on. Eventually things get resolved and people move on I guess and I got to accept NetworkManager instead of fighting against it doing stupid things against my will. Hopefully enough things have been fixed so that it's now sane enough.
I am still against distributions doing "their own things" on such fundamental levels, I accept that I do not matter in the big scheme of things.
IMHO, such basic operations like networking should be standardized across platforms so that we can achieve such operations w/o worrying about such stupid things. I should expect to have certain things always in my service...
Oh well..
Monday, July 07, 2014
LoadRunner 11.52 and weird compilation issues
I've had a perfectly working LoadRunner Java over HTTP script for ages. This stopped working once it was tried on 11.50 and 11.52.
It "compiles" inside the VUGen but fails to run inside VUGen or Controller and produces the following error:
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at DummyClassLoader.loadClass(DummyClassLoader.java:15)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at ScriptFactory.getScriptObject(ScriptFactory.java:51)
Error: Can't create script object.
Error: Exception was raised when calling abort-cleanup function in extension java_int.dll: System Exceptions: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Warning: Extension trans.dll reports error -1 on call to function ExtAbortCleanup
Notify: Found jdk version: 1.6.0.
Notify: classpath=C:\LoadRunnerScripts\FUBAR\;c:\hp\loadrunner\classes\srv;c:\hp\loadrunner\classes;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\Arialuni.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\commons-collections-2.1.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\myclient.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\commons-logging-1.0.2.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\djt.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\itext-1.3.1.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\iTextAsian.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jasperreports-3.0.0.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jcommon-1.0.0.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jfreechart.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\JScript.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\poi-3.0.1-FINAL-20070705.jar;;;;c:\hp\loadrunner\lib\xstream-1.3.jar;c:\hp\loadrunner\lib\xpp3-1.1.4c.jar
Notify: Path=C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_75\jre\bin\client;C:\HP\LOADRU~1\bin;C:\HP\LoadRunner\Bin;C:\HP\LoadRunner\Bin\tulip\bin;C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_75\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\HP\LoadRunner\strawberry-perl\perl\bin
Notify: VM Params: .
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at DummyClassLoader.loadClass(DummyClassLoader.java:15)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at ScriptFactory.getScriptObject(ScriptFactory.java:51)
Error: Can't create script object.
Error: Exception was raised when calling abort-cleanup function in extension java_int.dll: System Exceptions: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Warning: Extension trans.dll reports error -1 on call to function ExtAbortCleanup
After raising a call with HP, their suggestion was to move all of the <Vector> and List declarations to global sections, not inside methods.
Like this:
@@ -436,14 +437,27 @@ public class Actions {
*
* @return
* @throws Throwable
- */
+ */
+
+ Vector<Vector<String>> pterryPack = null;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> ankhmorphocContents;
+ //Vector<String> vetrinari_results;
+ Vector<String> fubarDetails;
+ Vector<String> snafuDetails;
+ Vector<String> fibbsDetails;
+ Vector<String> gremlinsDetails;
+ Vector<String> rincewindConfig;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> ConanDetails;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> unseenuniversityDetails;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> discworldData;
OK, in many ways my Vector etc. declarations are a bit funny wrt to the modern Java coding standards but it is the way the legacy code I work with is written so I shouldn't get the flack. The funny thing is it works with Java 1.6 and LoadRunner 11.0 but not 11.52, it -looks- like a classpath issue based on various discussions on the net but it isn't. It looks like the parser LoadRunner uses to create the runtime classes for data injection can't handle such Vector and List declarations (legitimately) peppered around the code and must observe them up front and prepare itself.
Beware.
It "compiles" inside the VUGen but fails to run inside VUGen or Controller and produces the following error:
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at DummyClassLoader.loadClass(DummyClassLoader.java:15)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at ScriptFactory.getScriptObject(ScriptFactory.java:51)
Error: Can't create script object.
Error: Exception was raised when calling abort-cleanup function in extension java_int.dll: System Exceptions: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Warning: Extension trans.dll reports error -1 on call to function ExtAbortCleanup
Notify: Found jdk version: 1.6.0.
Notify: classpath=C:\LoadRunnerScripts\FUBAR\;c:\hp\loadrunner\classes\srv;c:\hp\loadrunner\classes;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\Arialuni.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\commons-collections-2.1.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\myclient.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\commons-logging-1.0.2.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\djt.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\itext-1.3.1.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\iTextAsian.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jasperreports-3.0.0.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jcommon-1.0.0.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\jfreechart.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\JScript.jar;C:\LoadRunnerScripts\WebClasses\fubar\poi-3.0.1-FINAL-20070705.jar;;;;c:\hp\loadrunner\lib\xstream-1.3.jar;c:\hp\loadrunner\lib\xpp3-1.1.4c.jar
Notify: Path=C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_75\jre\bin\client;C:\HP\LOADRU~1\bin;C:\HP\LoadRunner\Bin;C:\HP\LoadRunner\Bin\tulip\bin;C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_75\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\HP\LoadRunner\strawberry-perl\perl\bin
Notify: VM Params: .
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at DummyClassLoader.loadClass(DummyClassLoader.java:15)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at ScriptFactory.getScriptObject(ScriptFactory.java:51)
Error: Can't create script object.
Error: Exception was raised when calling abort-cleanup function in extension java_int.dll: System Exceptions: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Warning: Extension trans.dll reports error -1 on call to function ExtAbortCleanup
After raising a call with HP, their suggestion was to move all of the <Vector> and List declarations to global sections, not inside methods.
Like this:
@@ -436,14 +437,27 @@ public class Actions {
*
* @return
* @throws Throwable
- */
+ */
+
+ Vector<Vector<String>> pterryPack = null;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> ankhmorphocContents;
+ //Vector<String> vetrinari_results;
+ Vector<String> fubarDetails;
+ Vector<String> snafuDetails;
+ Vector<String> fibbsDetails;
+ Vector<String> gremlinsDetails;
+ Vector<String> rincewindConfig;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> ConanDetails;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> unseenuniversityDetails;
+ Vector<Vector<String>> discworldData;
OK, in many ways my Vector etc. declarations are a bit funny wrt to the modern Java coding standards but it is the way the legacy code I work with is written so I shouldn't get the flack. The funny thing is it works with Java 1.6 and LoadRunner 11.0 but not 11.52, it -looks- like a classpath issue based on various discussions on the net but it isn't. It looks like the parser LoadRunner uses to create the runtime classes for data injection can't handle such Vector and List declarations (legitimately) peppered around the code and must observe them up front and prepare itself.
Beware.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Good riddance
Ubuntu One is no more. Long live the new king, OwnCloud version 6.
Don't use v5. It shreads files for fun.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Ubuntu, Avahi and .local as a domain name
$BIGCORP uses .local as internal domain name.
The tosser who wrote Avahi and the wanker who made it default in Ubuntu uses ".local" as Avahi's internal domain name therefore nothing works. You can nslookup it but cannot use it in commands, scripts, URLs. Shitheads.
Edit /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf and change
domain-name=.local
The tosser who wrote Avahi and the wanker who made it default in Ubuntu uses ".local" as Avahi's internal domain name therefore nothing works. You can nslookup it but cannot use it in commands, scripts, URLs. Shitheads.
Edit /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf and change
domain-name=.local
to
domain-name=.snafu
Save, exit, restart Avahi daemon, curse the fuckers.
As you can see, I am seriously pissed off with these clueless jellybrains.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Trilogies: Just say No!
I wish I had the drive to start a new campaign: STOP THE TRILOGIES!
I know that trilogies, or simply put, multi-book deals are good for the writers financially, readers tend to buy all of the series usually since they don't like to stop at the middle of a book and printers just love it for the same reason.
On the other hand, I've had enough! I can't go to Borders and pick a random SF/F book anymore. Almost any other book is a part of a series and it only is the fourth book of an eight book series! Heellooo? Why should I pick this book and walk away with it?
Unless it is a manga - then it's the opposite. I buy my mangas from Amazon. Why? Because the bookshops in my City have a stupid rule, they only have the first couple of volumes of any manga so I always get my first hit from them and then get the rest of the volumes supplied by Amazon. Surely the bookshop is losing money here, a typical Manga series is usually 13 to 20 volumes. Selling only a small fraction is useless.
Back to the books again.
Obviously emotional attachment to the characters is a strong reason for buying serial books. Writers can flesh out the characters significantly compared to the shorter books. On the other hand, are we readers getting our money's worth? In my experience a story that should have been finished in a medium-thickness volume usually gets expanded into a trilogy. The events get sparser, with lots of "character development" in between. On the other hand these character developments don't give us any more insight to the story itself - we tend to fed up all sorts of stupid stories about the character's life. For example a character might be a cynical person. In a shorter book, this can be described as such and be done with. In a trilogy, we would learn about his failed marriage, his cheating wife, sweet but now dead kids and his folding business, not because of his fault either but his partner, who also was fucking our character's sister AND wife, make our character cynical. And this takes an additional 100 pages to go through... Thinking that most of 50s and 60s novels were about 120-180 pages long...
Let's all say NO to the trilogies.
Let's get the writers concentrate on the story again.
Let's be able to finish a book in a peaceful evening and then contemplate over it for a couple of hours.
This will mean that we will have to buy more books. We will be reading more of them and we will be introduced to more interesting ideas for the same page count.
I can't see any problem there!
I know that trilogies, or simply put, multi-book deals are good for the writers financially, readers tend to buy all of the series usually since they don't like to stop at the middle of a book and printers just love it for the same reason.
On the other hand, I've had enough! I can't go to Borders and pick a random SF/F book anymore. Almost any other book is a part of a series and it only is the fourth book of an eight book series! Heellooo? Why should I pick this book and walk away with it?
Unless it is a manga - then it's the opposite. I buy my mangas from Amazon. Why? Because the bookshops in my City have a stupid rule, they only have the first couple of volumes of any manga so I always get my first hit from them and then get the rest of the volumes supplied by Amazon. Surely the bookshop is losing money here, a typical Manga series is usually 13 to 20 volumes. Selling only a small fraction is useless.
Back to the books again.
Obviously emotional attachment to the characters is a strong reason for buying serial books. Writers can flesh out the characters significantly compared to the shorter books. On the other hand, are we readers getting our money's worth? In my experience a story that should have been finished in a medium-thickness volume usually gets expanded into a trilogy. The events get sparser, with lots of "character development" in between. On the other hand these character developments don't give us any more insight to the story itself - we tend to fed up all sorts of stupid stories about the character's life. For example a character might be a cynical person. In a shorter book, this can be described as such and be done with. In a trilogy, we would learn about his failed marriage, his cheating wife, sweet but now dead kids and his folding business, not because of his fault either but his partner, who also was fucking our character's sister AND wife, make our character cynical. And this takes an additional 100 pages to go through... Thinking that most of 50s and 60s novels were about 120-180 pages long...
Let's all say NO to the trilogies.
Let's get the writers concentrate on the story again.
Let's be able to finish a book in a peaceful evening and then contemplate over it for a couple of hours.
This will mean that we will have to buy more books. We will be reading more of them and we will be introduced to more interesting ideas for the same page count.
I can't see any problem there!
Friday, May 25, 2007
200705242018 on the eurostar
Location: Eurostar speeding towards England
Mood: Depressive and extremely tired
This has been a distastrous week.
First... I had a very poorly tested software.
Second... I forgot my passport at home and found about it when I was just about to check into Eurostar.
Third... After postponing the trip to Tuesday morning, I forgot to phone the hotel to talk about the reservation.
Fourth... I had a lot of problems with WebSphere shite.
Fifth... I found about the cancelled reservation, it took a while to find an other hotel room since it looked like all of Lille was fully booked.
Sixth... The second day wasn't that good either (but I did have some progress and finally ended up with one serious problem.
Seventh... I was asked to stay an other day, which I was completely cool about but the only hotel that had a room was a single star and it was VERY basic. Unbeliveable BASIC. (At least that night I had a good dinner with my colleauges and had some fun).
Eighth... WebSphere is still a pile of shite.
Ninth... Finally, after managing to escape, I find out that the return ticket for Eurostar WOULD NOT STOP AT ASHFORD. FUCK FUCK FUCK! I had to beg and beg, finally they gave me a seat on the next train, A FULL TWO HOURS LATER! Well, the Eurostar staff were brilliant, polite and helpful, I am really grateful.
Tenth... I dunno.. Something's bound to go wrong.
Update: Tenth... Fuck it! You can't make this up. After I got out of Darmouth tunnel, a huge HGV tried to run over my Volvo! He pushed me into the next lane, I hardly controlled the car. If there were any traffic on the lane I was pushed into, it would be a very serious accident. It's so fucking unbelievable. Also roadworks on M11 and M25 made the journey far too long with heavy delays. This sucks.
Mood: Depressive and extremely tired
This has been a distastrous week.
First... I had a very poorly tested software.
Second... I forgot my passport at home and found about it when I was just about to check into Eurostar.
Third... After postponing the trip to Tuesday morning, I forgot to phone the hotel to talk about the reservation.
Fourth... I had a lot of problems with WebSphere shite.
Fifth... I found about the cancelled reservation, it took a while to find an other hotel room since it looked like all of Lille was fully booked.
Sixth... The second day wasn't that good either (but I did have some progress and finally ended up with one serious problem.
Seventh... I was asked to stay an other day, which I was completely cool about but the only hotel that had a room was a single star and it was VERY basic. Unbeliveable BASIC. (At least that night I had a good dinner with my colleauges and had some fun).
Eighth... WebSphere is still a pile of shite.
Ninth... Finally, after managing to escape, I find out that the return ticket for Eurostar WOULD NOT STOP AT ASHFORD. FUCK FUCK FUCK! I had to beg and beg, finally they gave me a seat on the next train, A FULL TWO HOURS LATER! Well, the Eurostar staff were brilliant, polite and helpful, I am really grateful.
Tenth... I dunno.. Something's bound to go wrong.
Update: Tenth... Fuck it! You can't make this up. After I got out of Darmouth tunnel, a huge HGV tried to run over my Volvo! He pushed me into the next lane, I hardly controlled the car. If there were any traffic on the lane I was pushed into, it would be a very serious accident. It's so fucking unbelievable. Also roadworks on M11 and M25 made the journey far too long with heavy delays. This sucks.
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