Replication is not on the bingo card.

Cloud computing is a bingo word.  It is used by retards.  Distrubuted computing always has been here, in say seti, gene decoding and co-operative processing.  One day i saw an advert for a thing in the ‘sky’, and all it did was replicate.

Replication (or copy) has been around for years.  So next time i hear somebody mention those things in the sky it will be the signal for them to be known as retarded by all.  The other danger is who controls the sky, which question raised its ugly head in January, lose the thing and the ‘sky’ fails.

If it can happen to one, it can also happen to others.

So long samba

Samba working it

I hate running samba on linux, not because of what it does as it does work and who does it but because it does nothing of real value.  We only used it as an interface for cups which is something to do with printers for windows.

We now use cups and http to do the job, that does the trick and less memory too.  It would be nice is those idiots at microsoft would support printers other than samba devices without crashing a photo printing app.  You have to be a idiot to work at Microsoft

That’s Microsoft for you, it appears that you do need a pretty costume when you have idiots writing code at microsoft cause there shit at most things.  Smb might have once been a good idea but then the idiots at ms clearly gave it there best shot.

There is some good to this, i have found a supplier who will sell thngs without windows.  The less you can use of windows means why bother with the crap to begin with.

The Female Man,Joanna Russ

isbn: 0704347377 is a hard book to get from a library,anyhow i persisted.  A book from the year 1975 is more feminist, than the dreaded genre, and despite those in wimens liberation jobs i’d argue much has changed.  Very much a book that is read between the lines.

2/5 bananas dated, I preferred herland (my blog).

‘Fun’ with java runtime

Oracle java is a complex mess behind the scenes, quite how anybody thinks java is efficient is plain bonkers, with the sun java jre is now not distributed with linux distros, ok fine, but to install it required visiting some plain strange oracle sites, and an edit of a users .profile.    The thing worked but the app required said no joy.

Eventually…. i discover it was an ‘opensource’ java dependence, that i fished about for and  then that java based app worked.  Now that kind of complexity is ok for some like me but with a mix of licenses and distribution methods quite how the average person might deal with this is something that worries me, and perhaps they might give up, causing a bad reputation for the java thing, and the java brand.

I dont use much java, and im glad.  Mind you i don’t really think Oracle really give a stuff, and if they could forget java im sure it would not  bother the billionaire who runs it.

Losing the plot

I read that Kodak have become bankrupt.  The reason probably has something to do with not doing digital, suing the shit out of Polariod which was the first instant chemical photo to protect there film business model many years ago.

Latest thinking by the geniuses in charge at Kodak was to sue mobile phone makers.  The courts being busy with everybody else suing everybody else in the mobile industry told Kodak to sod off and wait six months late to the party again……

This is what surprises me about Kodak is they did not sue the mobile telecom firms.  I looked at mobile phone price list once and discovered that to send a picture cost 0.30 of a currency unit.

So have people stopped taking photographs.  Here in the zoo i can assure you no.  But not on or with Kodak products. Amazingly i can not buy an antique kodak camera from a charity shop (my blog). There too old.

In the early 1990′s bananas saw some early digital cameras not on the market to buy but for testing.  Back then they had issues with red over say the professionals camera the hasselblad.   Those issues where fixed a long time ago

I am sure Kodak would have preferred that digital photography never should have existed.  Suppressing change as Kodak did never seems to work and thats a failure that Kodak management have to admit.   Humorously years after the world has colour printers with photographic ink all Kodak could come up with was a another inkjet printer, I have usb ports but they have things in them already and not Kodak and i read had a quality worse than Epson printers.

If Kodak wish to become another sco-x let them, after all just look at Darl Mcbride.

Let them eat deep fried mars bars

932 calories per bar

Scotland is an interesting place with the deep fried mar bar which is apparently 932 calories per bar.  Fruit and veg where in the 1980′s hard to find which is why Bananas has never been.

There’s a lot of compliant from Scotland about the non scots, and scots love to waste not there money. With labour starting this independent thing and rbs being a paragon of prudence.  I say let them be free to celebrate the deep fried chocolate bar.

Andrew Crossley and the strange case of the get rich quick scheme gone wrong.

Andress Crossley mafia stooge employee of shell firm acs:law

Andrew Crossley is a very special person, as acs:law’s owner he managed to piss off judges, and everybody else and made a lot of bt plc look incompetent when things got made public.

As you may have read Crossley has also managed to invoke the ire of his profession whom generally look after each other even when really bad stuff is known.  – this seems to say much in his case.

independence to be compromised and acted in a manner contrary to the best interests of his clients

Crossley certainly is no model professional, but he also made fools of many others in his quest to get rich.   Perhaps thats why he is a suspended professional who is little too well known for things to be any other way.

Music without sound.

I feel sorry for some journalists who write for websites about music.  The big four copyright holders have screwed them.  Imagine that an pop artist called babysham is celebrating retirement at the 65/70 ish age, and idiot journalist is asked to write a piece – pictures are ok, observations too, sound and video are a no.

I am not sure who is more of the idiot here.  Perhaps of the people I mention all of them for not not getting it.  Mind you i never saw much talent in the person with the new bus pass to start with.

American Horror Story

American Horror Story (ahs) uses some interesting tricks as to physicality in a ghost story, it uses the man trap star trek example as to perception.  What is real or illusory is up for debate.

In the man trap (tos) Mccoy visits a planet with an ex girl friend on, kirk, and the soon to be dead man in the red shirt see what mccoy tells them is there, but they see there perception of the salt monster.

Despite the odd values americans have it seems to have a morality style that helps explore them human feelings.

Interesting on a number of levels. Worth it

the curse of the aging rock band

I briefly saw u2 [that tax avoiding irishman internet hater and charity boss with his chums] via the television when they finally did Glastonbury earlier this year it was not at volume 11* and they seemed old and tired.  I also saw another aging rock star profess his love of the game of golf in an interview.

With rock and pop both beginning to have a large percentage of old age pensioners i start to think is it the public who is at fault, or the record industry.  I concluded it was the latter, the public are just being sheep.

Humans.

*spinal tap