It’s been a while. I’m in the States right now, on the way back home. I’ve intentionally stayed away from politics and blogging in general while deployed overseas as a mobilized reservist.
I probably won’t have much to say about the current deployment — the previous one was far more interesting. I was able to accomplish a couple of goals on this one, however, so I’ll be happy to describe some of that.
It’s great to be back.
If you have sworn an oath the support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and you have no idea what that actually means, I’ll make you a deal. All you have to do is admit that you held up your hand for no reason. Admit that you signed a contract without understanding it and they said there was a paycheck in it for you, so you mouthed the words without knowing, without caring what you were promising, and I will let you go. No strings attached.
Walk away from your job. Walk away from your pension, your retirement, your healthcare plan and all the rest of it, because you lied to get them and they are not rightfully yours. Government … Continue reading
I have more to say about this, but I am still learning. My impression so far is that Windows has really grown up and acquired a shell worthy of the term. I’ve always been a DOS fan in the Microsoft camp, but at the same time really miss the power of a shel like bash. Well, Powershell may be thought of as an object-oriented shell with much of the power and philosophy of bash. Note that a huge difference is that is typical unix shells “everything is a file”, whereas in PowerShell, “everything is an object”. And yes, that means, methods, properties, and an infrastructure for referring to and invoking them.
Yay.
I keep reading about things I am supposed to love about Windows 8. There are no doubt some features which make it not just a version of Windows 7 that only touch-screen-licking children can use. Powershell version 3 (available for Windows 7) is integrated seamlessly with Windows 8, so this has my attention. Also, I recall something about the hypervisor (virtualization manager, I guess) being more capable, and something about encryption being beefed up.
So when I search the web for “Windows 8 Business” and get cruft 2.0 like the screenshot below, I get a little frustrated. I’m a big-picture guy, see, and while I like the details, for me many details problems *go away* if you can attack the big picture. So the big picture here is … Continue reading
It’s ugly and flimsy-looking, and I don’t want its “features”. Continue reading
There are responsible ways to consider the duty to “support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. This is not one of them:
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., believes that his oath of office compels him to protect the country from “rabid” Tea Party congressmen because they qualify as “domestic enemies.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-democrat-calls-tea-party-lawmakers-domestic-enemies/article/2537434
I would like to know what his standards are. Probably not impressive when you see how he misconstrues the oath itself:
“Really, you’ve got to think, we take an oath to protect this country from ‘all enemies, foreign and domestic,’ and these are the domestic enemies,” Cohen said.
Except that even if he were right, he would still be wrong. The oath is not about protecting the country; that’s the military’s day … Continue reading
This is a test post written using Microsoft Voice Recognition. I’ll tell you what I’m having a lot of fun with this.
It takes some getting used to. I’m also having a lot of trouble with Google Chrome. It seems Chrome uses some other voice recognition scheme. It seems to not be compatible with Microsoft’s voice recognition scheme. It doesn’t look like an issue that training that will remedy either. It seems that Google Chrome doesn’t refer to the Microsoft voice recognition API and will never get what Microsoft is sending it.
That’s why I’m using Internet Explorer to post this. While the WordPress admin screen will not let me jump directly to the text input form, I’m only one mouse click away from a speaking everything you … Continue reading
I seem to be the first person ever to do this. I love the machine, but spilling cheap beer all over it has not made things better. But you probably got here due to the following terms: hp envy ultrabook beats 14 model 4-1038nr cover case bottom disassemble remove open screws damn feet drive battery spare replace remove hell instructions guide howto RAM memory HDD SSD hybrid … So here’s what you came for.
There are only 12 screws to take out. All on the bottom, yes you must take all 12 out. None of them are special, no hinge-clutch-anchor Jesus screw. No, you do not need to remove the feet. No special tools required, I pried the case edges with the back edge of the world’s … Continue reading
SooperMexican says I am misrepresenting his position when I say that he has come out for amnesty (and benefitted mightily from it). The benefit I’m talking about is that now (I say) that he has come out for amnesty, he gets guests like Dana Perino, famous Bushie and fairly RINO TV personality.
But it’s my characterization of the position itself he objects to, so I will just briefly describe why I say he’s now pro-amnesty. All of my evidence comes from his podcast, episode #21, after which I stopped listening. He made his case clearly, repeatedly, bluntly, and at times by stepping all over his co-hosts by pulling racial expertise as some sort of trump to plain facts and an ideological basis for positions.
He says that the … Continue reading
So far so good.
The tools I have used are Dupin2, TuneUp, and an interminable series of iTunes versions. Also in the mix, the embedded iTunes server on my Western Digital MyBook Live.
Briefly, I used Dupin2 to analyze my MacBook Pro iTunes library for possible duplicates. There were a lot of false positives at this stage, because y library was all hosed from years of dumping and insufficient curation of my stuff. Turn Dupin2 loose on your library, and then inspect the results — take no action on the first several passes. This is a laborious process, and I had to get comfortable with tuning the thing in order to start seeing the results I wanted. Of course, what makes this valuable is that we have the … Continue reading
