May 29, 2008
Weird weird issue on the normally kickass server here at the Funcave, which just so happens to be named Charlene. As in…
The name of this server is CHARLENE, SIR!
Tried to copy a 45GB VHD file to our girl…
A file which came courtesy of someone who just so happens to have a pink blog…
No matter how many different ways I tried to copy the file, Charlene eventually got into a totally frozen state. No matter if I tried to copy directly from USB HDD, via network client, or copying from another share, eventually Charlene would become totally unresponsive at the console, sever all network connects, etc.
Now Charlene’s a badass in her own right…
- HP ML350
- 2Ghz single quad-core Xeon
- 19 GB RAM
- 80 GB OS volume
- 250 GB Data volume
Charlene’s running…
- Windows Server Standard 2008 x64
- Hyper-V RC1
Seeing all kinds of weirdness trying to copy files to/from her.
All the mayhem starts when Free Physical Memory drops to sickeningly low levels.
Anyone with any serious knowledge of what’s going on wanna ping me? I’m talking Windows Server team, etc. Or anyone with the last name of Russinovich.
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May 23, 2008
Let me come right out and get this review over with in one sentence, for those of you who have important things to get done…
The new Indiana Jones movies TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY SUCKS!
Yep, I said it.
Don’t waste your money on this tired old gasbag of a movie.
In fact, I won’t waste your time going into the innumerable ways it sucks.
But I will tell you this…
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Oh-Who-Gives-A-Damn-Anyway makes Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom look like an Oscar-worthy MASTERPIECE by comparison.
Which I’m sure will make Kate Capshaw very happy.
Instead of telling you all the ways that the latest Indiana Jones delivers every cliche and hackneyed idea that has been put to film for the last 27 years…
Ever since Raiders of the Lost Ark basically kicked the ass of every action movie that had come before it, not to mention all that have come since…
I will instead share with you all the alternate titles I came up with while waiting for this pig of a movie to end tonight…
Raiders of the Aching Lumbago
Indiana Jones and the Search for the Golden Geritol
Indiana Jones Soils His Depends
Indiana Jones and the Last Sandwich (which he promptly gives to his anorexic girlfriend, Ally McBeal)
Indiana Jones and the Quest for Even More Special Effects
Indiana Jones and the Sequel of Doom
Raiders of the Last Nerve
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Gullible Viewers
Indiana Jones and The Final Sellout
Raiders of the Last Box-Office
Indiana Jones and the Lost Cliches
Raiders of My Last $10
Feel free to post up your own opinion, or alternate title suggestion.
But if you want my advice…
Wait for this piece of felgercarb to hit the video store.
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May 17, 2008
And man…do I deserve it.
In response to the post on pirate ROMs, and how I handled declining to answer a question on how to do it at the NOLA conference, I used the analogy of being a drug user (possession), rather than a drug dealer (distributing), Daniel took me out behind the woodshed and proceeded to lay into me with an ax handle. For good reason.
Here’s Daniel’s response, in its entirety…
I absolutely agree with your position and the decision you made. It is better just to be the drug user and never cross the line into drug pusher/dealer.
On the other hand, how respectable is it to be *just* a drug user?
Let’s continue the analogy of software piracy = drug use and look at the whole picture.
You are a speaker presenting on the topic of marijuana and it’s benefits (it’s legal but only in rare instances). After discussing the topic at length, one of the participants asks, “You’ve convinced me, I’d like to get high as soon as possible, where can I get some drugs.” Immediately you find yourself between a rock and a hard place. You know that drugs (including marijuana) can really mess a person up and that there is no legal option that you can answer with. So you pull a stash of crack-cocaine out of your pocket and explain, “I am a user who likes to get high, but I’m not about to become a dealer or tell others how to commit such a crime.” Then you light your crack pipe and take a hit.
I think the better answer would have been to explain that the only legal option is to wait until its official release and keep your illegal warez to yourself.
Not that it would help your integrity more…a person of integrity does what is right even when nobody else is looking. So to install a pirate rom kills your integrity whether you advertise that fact or not.
So yes, I respect your decision and attitude to have “more” integrity by not pointing the way towards illegal software use. But I hope you can understand why you have lost some level of respect from some people.
Not only is he absolutely right, he’s DAMN right.
Worse yet, railing against how bad pirate ROMs are like I am, and then doing it myself makes me not only a damn dirty pirate, and still part of the problem…
But also makes me a damn dirty hypocrite too.
I wish Danial had been in the NOLA audience and said that. Because I would have not only made the audience applaud him for saying that, but I would have also taken this long overdue step right then and there.
Today…
I am taking a solemn vow RIGHT NOW.
I, Chris Rue, pledge to never EVER use or download pirate ROMs. Ever.
Folks, that’s how important I feel this issue is to the long-term health of the Windows Mobile platform.
And I hope you will join me in this pledge, by also filling out the following…
Pirate ROM Survey & Pledge
This is OPEN to anyone who is interested in commenting on Windows Mobile and the ROM situation.
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May 16, 2008
A lot of interesting things happened in NOLA last weekend. Some of which I’m at liberty to discuss, some of which I’m not.
But by far, the most disconcerting had to be the number of people who said to me at one point or another during the conference…
Oh, I saw that you closed/killed the Funboard forum. I used that ALL THE TIME. I was sorry to see it go!
WHA…?
Ove the entire life of the Funboard, which was the Vanilla-based forum system used here at the Funcave, I personally accounted for over half the postings.
I simply couldn’t get anyone to talk at all.
And I just couldn’t understand why, either.
I thought I was posting intresting topics, especially for a starter board, etc. Open-ended stuff.
But two key stats from the Funboard tell a certain story.
There were 650+ members of the Funboard at the time of its closing.
But there were over 17,000 anonymous views. Now, that’s not accounting for multiple views from same computer, etc.
Still tho…that is a HORRIBLE conversion ratio.
No matter what, I chalk a good bit of the relative failure of the Funboard to a group of things I like to call The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly…
GOOD = Super strong content (which doesn’t generate discussion, simply lurkers/leechers)
BAD = No working notification module/plug-in for Vanilla
UGLY = The utter lack of support for it among my peers, including a few who were downright hostile toward it, ridiculing the effort to start a place where folks wouldn’t be, well…ridiculed for asking a simple question.
But even if that has been fixed, the simple fact of the matter is that if people don’t get off their own duffs, and support resources they find helpful…
Whether that support is monetary (FB was never a pay site, so this is not about a money thing), or simply posting a comment, question, a note of thanks, or whatever…
If no one takes the time to offer the kind of support that resource needs, then that resource will die.
That is a 100% stone cold guarantee.
R.I.P Funboard.
Evidently folks other than me miss you. Maybe there are more. Really tho…how would I know?
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