“One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people. Meetings cost them more.”
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
A good article by Paul Graham.
Don’t disturb your programmers!
Archive for July, 2009
Maker’s Schedule vs Manager’s Schedule
Friday, July 31st, 2009Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Slashdot Technology Story | Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality
Cool but worrying that the Artic sea ice is melting enough to allow this.
Fiby
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Noname 4C (redpoint), Noname 3A (flash), Noname 5B (flash), Calles Arête 5A (flash. Felt a bit high and scary at the top), Noname 5A (redpoint. The mantle is the crux and I’m no good at those. Felt like I was about to topple backwards any second), Stora Scenen 5C (I tried this a few times but I never figured out what to do with the right hand)
US Snooping Rights in Europe: Criticism Grows over Banking Data Deal
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Of course the US don’t want to give up access to information they have today. But maybe they shouldn’t have had access to the information in the first place?
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Slashdot IT Story | New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Funny how DNS, one of the fundamental pieces of the internet, still has these kinds of problems. One would think that by now enough eyes would have been on the code to catch errors like this.
Summer flu
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009I think I’ve ended up with some kind of summer flu. I’m not sure how it happened but it started on Saturday when I didn’t have any energy or strength when we were out climbing. On Sunday it got worse with me feeling somewhat nauseous all day combined with a headache and pain in the muscles and joints. I had no energy at all and felt all exhausted the whole day.
When I woke up Monday morning I felt more tired than the previous night but I still somehow managed to drag myself to work and in the evening we went climbing indoors as planned. Naturally that went quite crap as my fingers and joints were sore already before I started to climb but I’m a stubborn man so I did climb a bit. However, we cut the session short as we quickly got totally wasted.
This morning my foggy head finally felt a bit clearer and I actually had some energy left when I went home from work this afternoon. Hopefully that means I’ll feel even better tomorrow and I’ll be rid of this strange flu shortly.
Sender Policy Framework
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Sender Policy Framework or SPF for short is a way to tell the world which mail servers that are allowed to send mail from a domain.
You can read an introduction to Sender Policy Framework at the SPF Project site.
If you use Google Apps to handle the mail for your domain they have information in their help pages about the correct SPF record to set for your domain. Note, however, that you have to use “-characters around the string to get it published as one string and not as three different strings.
Once you’ve made the changes to the DNS record you can verify if the SPF information is set correctly by using these SPF Record Testing Tools.
Gåseborg
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Diktator 6b (Redpoint, repeat. First try this year though. Quite a nice route really and the runout isn’t at all as bad as I remembered), Blitz 6b (Redpoint), Tonys led 6c (On the second try I had the bottom and the top parts figured out, but the middle part still beats me. I’m too weak to make the move to the right from the two small crappy crimps…), Propaganda 7a (I tried this long-moves-between-sharp-crimps route, and it wasn’t too bad but I didn’t have the strength for it today), Kristallnatten 6c+ (I got totally shutdown on the move from the undercling. It was possible to get the left hand on some crappy crimps but as soon as I let go with my right hand I went off)
Water and Keyboards
Friday, July 24th, 2009Today’s special tip is to not get water onto your aluminum Apple Keyboard.
You might think that a bit of water on your keyboard isn’t that bad and it should dry out rather quickly and when it has it will start to work again. That’s what I believed until yesterday when I accidentally spilled a bit of water on my Apple Keyboard. Not a lot of water, just a bit. Enough to make parts of it wet enough that I had to get some paper to dry it up.
I wiped it as dry as possible and figured I could continue using it. However, shortly thereafter I realized that the arrow down button didn’t work, which can be quite annoying if you are writing code!
So I removed the arrow down key and used some more paper to dry the water that was under it. Now all of a sudden when I pressed the arrow down button it started to report arrow up button presses, in a constant stream. That is even worse!
I pulled the plug to the keyboard from the computer, fiddled some more with the stuff underneath the arrow down button and got it to stop doing whatever it was doing. Next I noticed the command-m is working but command-n is not working. The ‘n’ key on its own is working though. I can’t understand that! The ‘n’ key is working and the command key is working, but when used together nothing happens.
I let the keyboard dry out upside down over night but this morning it was still acting up. Then I put it under a warm lamp and now command-n is working again! Arrow down worked once before it stopped working again. So things are improving! With a bit of luck the keyboard might be start to work again after lunch.
These new aluminum keyboards from Apple are glued together, so there is no possibility to take them apart. So whatever you do, don’t get any liquid on your keyboard!
Update: Leaving the keyboard for another few hours under the hot lamp fixed the problem!
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