All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. This statement, often (wrongly) attributed to the 18th century Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, is self-evident. There are people - a few - with the Power to dictate where we go, what we do, how we act, and how we think. Such is the situation as Orwell described in 1984; it has indeed come to pass. DO NOT LET IT CONTINUE.
Related posts:
As I write this all of my domains are in the process of being transferred from GoDaddy (who I've used since they first hit the scene years ago) to NameCheap (I considered going with Gandi, but wanted to avoid pricing in Euros because my credit card company sucks so hard they blow).
Most of you know that I've been generally dissatisfied with GoDaddy from an image standpoint, but have generally let the inertia of "I don't want to go through the domain transfer process" carry me along. That all changed today -- I can overlook their shitty business practices. I can excuse their slut-tacular commercials as "sex sells (even domain names)", but I draw the line at supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3621) - This is an absolute piece of shit legislation that threatens the most fundamental principles of free speech by stripping away even the minimal end-user and content-provider protections of the DMCA. Further in chosing its technological weaponry SOPA also manages to jeopardize the DNS system, one of the most basic technical underpinnings of the internet as we know it.
That anyone can support this legislative disaster in the making baffles me. That a technology company can do so is unfathomable. Mr. Parsons has literally gone to congress, pointed an elephant gun at his testicles, and said "Go on, pull the trigger. I like the pain."
I am not usually a fan of Reddit, but they have a nice thread about GoDaddy supporting SOPA, and the ensuing mass exodus of even folks like me who were sticking with GD because of inertia. I have also reproduced GoDaddy/Mr. Parsons' statement supporting SOPA in its entirety below the break. They also mention the BYEBYEGD NameCheap coupon that inspired the title of this post.
Why should applying patches be so difficult? Why does Microsoft make it harder than on any other operating system? Is it that blasted registry? It seems that the .NET stuff (and packages which rely on it) is/are even worse than the DirectX components when it comes to installation and maintenance.
Related posts:
Holy Hairballs - A Blog update! Dayum it's been a while!
So, what the hell do I want to talk about? Well, I want to expound for a bit on the FAA/AeroNav proposal to start charging for digital chart data. And, because this is my blog, I can!
Really everything I want to say can be said by an appropriate LOLCat:
The average person nowadays brushes his or her own teeth, but goes to a dentist to have a cavity filled. So why do so many people think they can do their own web development (or general IT consulting)?
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? One of the slickest features of Linux is its ability to create symbolic links to files without making redundant, difficult to manage and track, copies. Well, OS/2 can do that, too.
Federal Tax Status: Filed (electronically). NYS Tax Status: Stuffed in an envelope and left for dead in a mailbox. Fuck you to New York.
—
1 hour 17 min ago
@datachick then you can also 7zip/rar your archive.pst
—
1 hour 31 min ago
set|grep -i temp
TEMP=C:\Users\zippy\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\zippy\AppData\Local\Temp
—
1 hour 33 min ago
@datachick A good start "C:\Users\zippy\Local Settings\Application Data\Application Data\Temp\"
—
1 hour 38 min ago
RT @slashdot: LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust http://t.co/hcYYjShp < I just upgraded it today after writing a LETTER
—
1 hour 40 min ago
@datachick install WinDirStat and it will find stuff for you.
—
1 hour 42 min ago
