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Work and motivation

Anton Parol — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:34:17 +0000

So what really motivates you? Heres a fascinating little video about the use of money as a motivator for work…

Airport Security hole

Anton Parol — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:19:51 +0000

I didn’t discover this one, credit to Schneier for finding it.

The conversation goes something like this:

“Here,” dad to girl, “Get your ID out and have it with your ticket.”

“Excuse me, sir,” said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, “She does not need to have her ID out, she’s a minor.”

Dad: “How do you know she’s a minor if you don’t look at her ID?”

…. (silence as everyone waits for answer)….

Dad again: “Kind of a hole in the system, isn’t it?”

TSA Officer, voice lowered … “There are a LOT of holes in the system, sir.” … walks away.

Young girl, “Good one, dad. Now tell her our name is LADEN and see what happens!”

Reminds me of the classic Kepner Tregoe quesiton; good, but good for what?

Origami + good software = awesome

Anton Parol — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:30:59 +0000

Is using software to work out what folds you need to do, cheating? Who cares! I have always been a fan of folding paper, so I’m quite happy that people spent time to work out what the principles are behind the art, and then applying them in some decent software Happy folding!

I’m a Porsche 911!

Anton Parol — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:45:02 +0000

You have a classic style, but you’re up-to-date with the latest technology. You’re ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige – you’re one of the elite,and you know it.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

More shuffling sideways!

Anton Parol — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:35:37 +0000

Clearly Mario’s success depends in part on the ignorance of his enemies!!!

goosh.org

Anton Parol — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:59:50 +0000

Go visit goosh.org if you haven’t already. Maybe useful, maybe not. Its an interesting idea, basically something like a *nix shell but for the web. Interesting that you can even up key and it remembers your last command. Might be interesting if they expand it with some kind of scripting ability. Lets just hope its locked down and doesn’t turn into a real shell….or that people don’t mistake this shell for one they already have open….

rm -rf * ………………… “Hey, wheres the Internet gone?……..uh oh………”

Its definitely nice that there are no ads, making it quick to load (despite the fact that the results are heavily abbreviated compared to google.com)

Enjoy!

yesterdays dream xkcd, so true

Anton Parol — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:28:24 +0000

I often have epic long dreams with huge amounts of detail in them. Occasionally I have a dream that isn’t very long and the details disappear very quickly. Yesterdays xkcd is so true, it makes me wish I could record my dreams and play it back for other people to enjoy

why use openbsd?

Anton Parol — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:48:35 +0000

First up, its cute. Thats right, the branding is so adorable, you just want a little puffy, like its was a Pokemon or something. No, but really, I do think the branding tells you something about the product; its lean and functional. Of course, you pick whichever product you feel solves the problem, but heres my reasons for liking openbsd:

The download is relatively small: about 207MB for the iso image
It takes up little resources: 30MB once booted up (and 13 processes). Of course, you’ll be expecting to load the machine up with services, thats the whole point of a good OS, right? Unless you don’t actually intend on using it…
Easy to use ports system. You just download the ports.tar.gz file for your version of openbsd, uncompress and then untar in the right directory (/usr/ports), then navigate to the directory of the software you want and type make && make install
Of course, this is only really needed for people who like to compile from source! Everyone else can just use the usual packages system
Easy network configuration. You can make a bridged connection with two commands:ifconfig bridge0 up brconfig bridge0 add xl0 add fxp0 (insert your own network cards here)
It ships with apache! Just type:
apachectl start and your running! (the htdocs directory is /var/www/htdocs )
The documentation is fantastic. No really, it really is good, its always a pleasure to RTM on openbsd
After installing a window manager like fluxbox, it takes one command to get it working, provided you want to type startx each time you boot. Also bear in mind you’ll need to add /usr/local/bin/fluxbox to your users .xinitrc file , from a fresh install you’ll need to make this file.
It recognised my ancient 3COM pccard Ethernet adapter! I can just pull it out and openbsd doesn’t die, it just kills off the dhclient process that was using it!
You get stickers if you buy the CD set!!!

Robot taxibike in rain, followed by geese, all in HD

Anton Parol — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:20:47 +0000

See for yourself!

le blue Screen of death!

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:55:55 +0000

I really do wonder whether or not this was a real advert that went out, or if it was just an office joke. Either way, thumbs up!