It’s essentially a typo in a brochure given out by a small computer retailer close to where I live.
I doubt they’re intentionally trying to confuse customers, but I got a laugh out of it anyway.
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ODCSSS 2010: Week 2
Monday, June 14, 2010
Week of Monday, 7th of June 2010
Monday was a Bank Holiday in Ireland, so we had the day off. Over the weekend I had decided that I really didn’t want to spend another week reading research papers, so I was set to do as much coding as possible. I started off on Tuesday by researching ways to extract data from Wikipedia. There’s a number of methods that can be used such as: (Continued)
ODCSSS 2010: Week 1
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Last week I started my OCDSSS summer research internship. During the opening festivities they strongly encouraged us to keep a personal diary and to note things down that we did week by week, so that when we came to do our final poster presentation we wouldn’t be stuck trying to remember what happened during the project. I figured that I may as well put it on my blog since I’d be writing it anyway, and I’d like to have it available for posterity. So now that the first two weeks are finished I actually have enough to say, let’s get it started
We started last week, on Tuesday morning, by meeting in the Guinness Storehouse, where we met all the other interns and our project supervisors. We also got a number of presentations from people like Microsoft, NDRC, and UCD’s Clique Research cluster. It was an enjoyable day and I’m glad I got a chance to meet all the other interns (there’s about 34 of us in total I believe) before we all got split up. It’s a very multinational group, by my guess it would be about 60% Irish, 40% non-Irish.
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L’Oréal: Inspired by the science of genes
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Dear L’Oréal,
If you can say your product is “Inspired by the science of genes” in an advert. Then you are a horrible, cynical, predator who intentionally bullshits and lies to sell products. I sincerely hope your company fails and every single person in marketing gets impaled by a rusty jagged spike. The sheer contempt you show for your customers, and your willingness to patronise and belittle them truly marks you out as a heartless monolithic corporation, bent only on making money. You obviously don’t consider truth a virtue and care for nothing other than profit. You need to step into the real world and inject some humanity into your company. Otherwise you will continue along your current path and loose what little touch you have left with the reality, along with the goodwill of your customers.
Today you have lost one buyer of your products. I vow that I will never buy any product made or licensed by L’Oréal, for myself or as a gift for anyone else. I will furthermore encourage everyone that I know to do the same.
In conclusion, Please fuck off and die.
Yours Sincerely
Chris Salij
Google’s Chrome Play
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
I’ve been watching Google as they’ve been developing their 3 Operating System products, and there’s one thing that strikes me about it. They all seem to be coming from the same place, and they all seem to be heading to the same destination. Albeit by different paths.
The Chrome Browser is their successful competitor to Firefox, IE, Opera et al. They had a series of goals at play when they released this. They wanted the market to start moving in a specific direction, one which suited them. For instance, having each tab run in a different process, sand-boxing, isolated failures, html5 support, lightweight browsing and so on. They had a number of key technologies and ideas that they wanted to push browser manufacturers, to use, mainly because they needed features like that for them to build their web based services and make them comparable to native alternatives. Google’s future is the web! Just look at their range of products, Google Docs, Wave, Gmail, Code etc, and they need an advanced, capable browser which allows them to develop alternatives to native applications that can actually compete. By releasing Chrome browser, they showed everyone how they wanted it to be, and by making it open source, they made it easy for people to emulate them. Because, in the long run, Google doesn’t really care what browser you’re running. As long as their Web Apps run well. (Continued)
WikiGolf Source Code
Friday, May 28, 2010
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m posting the source code for the WikiGolf game that I submitted for my Software Engineering Project II module. My team was called “The Channel 4 News Team” and we spend about 5 weeks doing this. I outlined the concept for the game in my previous post, but heres a quick rundown. Its a WikiGolf Graph Traversal Game:
- WikiGolf – You start off on a random page on wikipedia, and try to get to a specific page in the fewest number of clicks. You can only use links that are on the current page.
- Graph Traversal – We had to take a text file off all the pages on wikipedia, with information on which pages those pages linked to. And convert that into a Digraph which we could then traverse.
- Game – It needed to be fun to play.
Forum: Help Guide
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
These is the help page for the open source forum.
You need to install 3 things. I’ve given a step-by-step guide below
I’ve also given some links to some resources for you to learn more.
And I’ve given some commands that I’ve found helpful and that you should probably know from the beginning. (Continued)
My Setup: Hardware & OS
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
This is the first in a 3 part series of blog posts describing my computer setup.
- This one will be about the hard ware and OS.
- The second will be about the applications and tools
- The third will be about my environment.
So to start off, I’ll describe what I used to have: (Continued)
My Music…. She Lives!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
About two weeks ago I managed to bork my computer. It wasn’t anything too serious… I just had to reinstall Snow Leopard onto my mac. While this may sound like a horrible thing never to be repeated, I actually like doing it now and again. It helps get rid of the cruft that an OS builds up over time, and gives it that “new computer” feel. Though Mac doesn’t seem to build up nearly as much cruft as Windows XP it has to be said…
How did I bork it? Well to be honest, it was complete user error. I have filevault installed on my mac which encrypts my Home directory so that its reasonably well protected from hackers and such. One thing that it does is create a .sparsebundle directory which holds all of the encrypted content, and it decrypts the files from this on the fly as it needs them. Why this is all a lovely idea, and seems to work just fine, as always theres the PEBKAC problem. (P.E.B.K.A.C. = Problem exists between keyboard and computer)
Recently I noticed that my hard disk was feeling awful full, so I decided to run an analysis to see where the problem was. Seems some file called chrissalij.sparsebundle was taking up 80Gigs :O. Well that had to be deleted right away, we couldn’t have some un-openable file taking up 80 gigs. So off to the trash you go…. Oh wait, the Operating System wont let me delete you? Well then lets go to the command line..
$ sudo rm -rf chrissalij.sparsebundle
Haha. Got ya there didn’t I? Now you’re deleted. Oh wait… Why can’t I open any files, why is my operating system telling me to log out… Why can’t I log back in…..