http://ReallyEvilCanine.hulver.com/ ReallyEvilCanine's Diary on Hulver's site en-us Copyright 2003 - Hulver's site 2008-07-07T01:27:57Z ReallyEvilCanine's Diary ReallyEvilCanine's Diary on Hulver's site http://www.hulver.com/images/topics/husi-topic.png http://www.hulver.com/scoop/ http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/7/4/64532/01514 Training II: LOL Nazis So I'm sitting through another day of Stuff I Already Know and the teacher, a nice enough Genoan guy who mangles both German and English without prejudice is going over the new syntax and abilities in 11g. We're dropping tables but wait! There's a foreign key! What to do? My response didn't go over so well. x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/7/3/144748/1804 I CAN HAZ TRANEING "Dog, your training has been approved." "Citrix? Finally??" "No, Oracle. DBA path. "Umm... " Poll: Preferred database x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/6/27/201946/421 This one died in the diary deluge over at dKos but I put too much work into it to let it die so quietly. I'll get more readers here and I bloody well worked hard enough to deserve them. It's Friday night. I don't have to work but she does. I have a bottle of Absolut Pears and time on my hands. So I'm checking through the usual sites and I have a peek at that Younger than McCain site to see if one of my submissions has been posted. None have, but I notice A Day in the Life of a Middle-Class Republican because, well, my own blog is called A Day in the Life. Right away I see another tired, forwarded-100-times-through-the-intarwebs parable, except it seems fairly accurate. So I click. And read through. And I'm pretty sure it's accurate. But there are no links and no citations.... until now. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/6/27/84631/7689 Dear Japan, Your clocks are running seven hours too fast. PLZFIXKTHXBYE! I like my Japanese cow-orkers. I really do. Of course, I've never had any "face-time" with them which might explain this lack of animosity. But when I need to work with them I either have to be up at 3am (and sober enough to function) or I might as well send snail mail. One round-trip communication takes three days. Poll: LOL creashunistas x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/6/25/9753/23107 Cow-Orkers XVII: Dr. Seuss People often ask me, "REC? Why do you drink so much? Are you trying to become an alcoholic?" Become? Hah! Walk a mile in my moccasins, muthafuckers. Or just sit in this room and listen. I aten't dead yet! Drinking poll included x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/6/11/9140/07241 We Don't Say 'No' That didn't go over so well. x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/5/29/94655/8793 Shifty I have a German keyboard and I like it a lot (though it'd be better if it was a clicky Type-M "buckling spring" board). I have a Type-M but it's US-American and is missing the key between the left shift and the Y (that's a Z to you QWERTY people). Ever since I first sat in front of a German keyboard all those years ago, I have preferred the layout for everything except when I need curly braces and square brackets. Thankfully I code very little. I've also since added many more characters with the Keyboard Layout Creator. That key down on the left is a "less-than" in its normal state, a "greater-than" when shifted, and a "pipe" when combined with the AltGr (right-alt). It's great for HTML, but occasionally it's possible to enter the angle bracket in the wrong direction. This isn't usually a problem. Not usually. Poll: keyboards x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/5/26/101851/192 Closing Time Goddamn I hate when the phone ring. It was Meathead, my new manager after his recent promotion and the latest management shuffle. Having himself spent so much time kill floor he's much more tolerable and understanding of our problems than any of my previous headaches. "Hey, Dog. I need to see you in my office." Fuck. What did I do now? "Gimme five to write up this ticket solution and I'll be there." x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/5/23/84312/3573 Make Room! Make Room! In comparison with the cost of our software licensing and support contracts, the cost of a the hardware is negligible, even with the most expensive OS running on it. In fact we could probably give away racks of 2U dual-Xeons with 16GB RAM and dual 300GB hot-swappable SCSI drives in order to push our applications. We could even throw in copies of Windows Enterprise Datacenter edition for those companies too cheap to outsource their operations where competent UNIX/Linux admins can be found. Over the expected life of the hardware, the cost of the equipment is statistically 0 at a confidence level over 95% as compared to the costs of the software and people to make it work. Few idiots realise this -- not even our own. So perhaps I shouldn't have been as surprised to receive the following question: x-posted to da brog. http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2008/5/20/10933/6846 And Yet I am Surprised I have to leave this job. I must. I've reached a point I didn't think possible and having seen it, I know this can't go on. Another high-prio Class 1 ticket came in which wasn't really Class-1 because the system wasn't down. x-posted to da brog.