Some observations
Jan. 22nd, 2003 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mikailborgWell, I'm actually feeling a bit accomplished these days. This weekend, I shook the rust from my joints and did some serious database programming, teaching it how to build (static) webpages for manual upload. Today, I forced our server (which recently graduated from peer-to-peer file sharer to real server) to take an OS upgrade that it supposedly can't, getting better networking and filesystem performance from it.
Turns out that the only reason it "couldn't" support the OS upgrade was 'cause Apple wanted people with machines of that vintage to buy newer machines, instead of upgrading the OS. During installation, the installer says "Which model Mac are you?" and on older machines, says "Well, I would run fine on you, but Apple doesn't want me to. Sorry!" and reports to the user "This machine can't take this version of the OS."
So, instead of taking that lying down, I just hacked the installer to stop asking such silly questions and to trust me. Now my server is much faster and happier.
Has anyone ever noticed that when a Jedi fights a lightsaber-wielding villain, things usually don't go well for the Jedi?
Ep.4 - Obi-Wan vs. Vader, ends with Obi-Wan dead.
Ep.5 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with everyone calling Luke 'lefty.'
Ep.6 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with Luke almost succumbing to the dark side, then lying on the floor sucking Sidious' energy bolts.
Ep.1 - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Maul, ends with Qui-Gon dead and Obi-Wan having to train Anakin. (Yeah, that all works out well.)
Ep.2 - Obi-Wan & Anakin & Yoda vs. Dooku, ends with 'lefty' Anakin, injured Obi-Wan, defeated Yoda, and Dooku flying off in his ship cackling, pausing only briefly to skywrite "Surrender Dorothy" on his way out.
Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but if I were a Jedi, and saw the other guy light up a laser blade, I'd be pretty depressed about how things were going.
Turns out that the only reason it "couldn't" support the OS upgrade was 'cause Apple wanted people with machines of that vintage to buy newer machines, instead of upgrading the OS. During installation, the installer says "Which model Mac are you?" and on older machines, says "Well, I would run fine on you, but Apple doesn't want me to. Sorry!" and reports to the user "This machine can't take this version of the OS."
So, instead of taking that lying down, I just hacked the installer to stop asking such silly questions and to trust me. Now my server is much faster and happier.
Has anyone ever noticed that when a Jedi fights a lightsaber-wielding villain, things usually don't go well for the Jedi?
Ep.4 - Obi-Wan vs. Vader, ends with Obi-Wan dead.
Ep.5 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with everyone calling Luke 'lefty.'
Ep.6 - Luke vs. Vader, ends with Luke almost succumbing to the dark side, then lying on the floor sucking Sidious' energy bolts.
Ep.1 - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Maul, ends with Qui-Gon dead and Obi-Wan having to train Anakin. (Yeah, that all works out well.)
Ep.2 - Obi-Wan & Anakin & Yoda vs. Dooku, ends with 'lefty' Anakin, injured Obi-Wan, defeated Yoda, and Dooku flying off in his ship cackling, pausing only briefly to skywrite "Surrender Dorothy" on his way out.
Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but if I were a Jedi, and saw the other guy light up a laser blade, I'd be pretty depressed about how things were going.
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Date: 2003-01-22 05:08 pm (UTC)If size matters not then why oh why was it so much more difficult for Yoda to stop the pillar from falling then it was for him to do twirls and spins... that makes no sense to me at all!!
And... if a giant pillar is about to fall on your friends at the same time that the bad guy is about to get away how much sense does it make to stop the pillar then throw it to the side all he had to do to win was THROW IT AT THE SHIP!!
If Yoda was that dumb not to throw the pillar into the ship... Ugh... I hated that whole scene... Dooku won... he might not have killed them, but he won.