My Life – Page 161 – Chris' Site

Drive Right, Pass Left

I hate leaving a job, you always lose so much of your work from the past. IE, here it is 2 years after leaving my last job, and I’m suddenly wishing I had backed up a lot more then I did when I left. I took all of my home directories off all the servers, and most of the root directories, which contained tons of scripts that I’d written during that time. But now I’m really wishing that I had taken some of the /etc/ config files. 🙁 Thankfully, they have been very good at fulfilling my requests for data.

I worked 12 hour on Monday, 14 hours on Tuesday, 10 yesterday, 7 today and 5.5 tomorrow, and that was just for my real job… It’ll be nice to be back to a normal schedule after this week. 🙂 The training we had for my software yesterday went off very well, only one thing blew up during the training, and that wasn’t a part of _my_ software. And the food was excellent. I love lunch meetings!

I do have a nice list of things to do still for this project, mostly annoying little things, one however is really stumping me.

You see, we’ve got this database… One table holds a transaction listing. For each “Ticket”, you can have multiple transacations, and each transaction has a type. Anyways, I need to somehow find all the transacations where a ticket goes from one state (open/new/resolved) to another state (pendind_c, pending_r). So when you change the status it creates a record like this:

OldValue: $OldValue

NewValue: $NewValue

I can get the list of them with this query: SELECT * FROM Transactions WHERE Type = ‘Status’ AND (OldValue LIKE ‘pend%’ OR NewValue LIKE ‘pend%’) AND ObjectID = $TicketID ORDER BY Created

And they all come out in the right order, but now the trick is that I need to figure out how to calculate the time that a Ticket spends in the “pend_*” state. So when a ticket changes from an “Open” state to a “Pend” state, everything from that point to when it changes back to “Open” counts against us.

Right now, I’m just (from another table) UNIXTIME(Start) – UNIXTIME(Resolved) to get the total time.. But I gotta subtract out the time spent pending.

I’m sure there’s some easy way that I’m just not thinking about, but I’m lost. It’s time for me to go home now.

Adios.

Pirates, Pirates! Everywhere!

Apparently they are filming scenese of the next Pirates of the Carb movie… OUT MY FRONT DOOR!

Pirates

Sorry it’s so blurry, it was a LONG ways away. Jason and I saw it coming in while we were still on our bike ride, I hauled ass back to my house, grabbed my camera and got the best pic I could before it went into the harbor.. Perhaps this weekend I’ll head down there and get some closer pics of it… I hear it’s here for 9 days….

Pretty damn cool.. That’s two movies in the as many weeks I’ve seen being filmed right here in Redondo!!

The Apple Debate

I HATE when people say. “Well, because it’s a mac”… My Mac is NOT sub-par to your windows computer.

I agree, that 5 or 6 years ago, before OSX came out, that YES mac’s were sub-par, you couldn’t do shit. They sucked. I’ll gladly agree to that, but anyone who says that now, is an idiot.

Since OSX Mac’s have blown windows out of the water for everything. I don’t have to worry about getting a virus, I don’t have to worry about accidentially downloading trojan software, my browser correctly support standards, it has tabs built in, the Mail Application is useable.

My Mac has an amazing collection of applications to manage my music, photos, and everything else you could want.

I easily can use my favorite Unix applications, and with a small dwnload, I can have full X abilities!

Show me where Windows competes in any of these areas? IE doesn’t even come close to supporting standards, IE doesn’t offer even a basic ability to have tabs, the Mail application sucks, and to have even the basic usability of Unix, there’s a TON of extra things to download, and they don’t even come close to the ease of use and integration that the Mac has.

Whenever I complain about something… IE. “Why does Acrobat install Yahoo! Messanger”… it’s almost ALYWAYS because I am using a windows computer. So SOMEONE please tell me WHY THE FUCK does Acrobat install the fucking Yahoo Messager!? I NEVER have these issues on my fucking mac… When I download Acrobat, that’s the only fucking thing it installs… ETC!

The new MacPro’s beat out Dell’s pricing for similar hardware spec systems, granted, we’re talking systems that are $2,500+. Although Apple can’t yet meet the $300 price-point of some Dell systems, even the cheapest of Apple’s machines, the Mini, still beats out an equivalent Dell system in price. Also, each time Windows is released, you typically have a major slow down in your performance on your system, thus causing you to buy a new system. With MacOSX, each new release has actually brought about FASTER OS speeds to those with older systems over the previous OS release!

In short, I honestly don’t think that people who haven’t significantly used both OSes for a while should really be dissing one or the other. I have used Windows, MacOSX, and Linux in a daily operating life, as a desktop, server, and tons of other roles. In the long run, the MacOSX has proven to be far more useful and reliable then the WindowsOS for me.

References:

Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?.

VT again adds machines, and again boost score.

US Army Drafts Apple Xserve for Supercomputer.

New MacPro Beats Dell Pricing.

IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch.

Windows 5x More Expensive than Mac OS X.

Top 500.

When I lived in Iowa, I drove my car for ~60,000 miles, during all that time, I NEVER changed the air filter.. I know you’re supposed to, but I never noticed any problems. Since I’ve lived in OC, I changed it every couple Oil changes. NOW living in LA, it seems to be EVEN worse! Ugh!

Friday, I always look forward to getting to my office and having a NICE big office to myself, and of course …. My WONDERFUL chair. It’s so comfy and set just right… I get there this past week, and someone has STOLEN my chair! UGH! Why do people feel they can steal your chair!!!

Also, Friday I was driving down to Austin’s via PCH, lots of stop and go, traffic lights, etc. But the speed limit is 45. I got stuck behind this Mini-van.. Every light we came up to, the damn van would slow down to 15-20mph.. Even if the light was CLEARLY GREEN! It was SO annoying!

Check out the adorable Firefox Dog! I want one of my own… Too bad it’s not real. :'(

FireFox Dog!

And who says Starbucks isn’t taking over the world:

1 Bottle of Wine…

Hmm, interesting weekend.. I didn’t really do anything though.

Friday was the bike ride, and then hanging out with Austin, Robert, and that guy. That was fun.

Saturday I laid around the house all day, cleaned and didn’t really do much. I went down to the OC about 9ish and hung out with Oda. I forgot how nice and HOT he is! We drank a whole bottle of wine each and watched Harry Potter and talked about how hot Harry is. 🙂 We ended up cuddling in bed, which was fun, I fell asleep, woke up about 3ish and came home.

Sunday, I again just laid around the house the whole day, went on a walk and again didn’t do much. I’ve been REALLY tired, and still in a bit of pain from the ouchies.

I also booked my flights for christmas and the flights to Vegas. So that’s exciting! Although I hate spending that much all at once… Just over $450 for both flights. 🙁

Saturday night, I was supposed to hang out with this guy, but we were getting ready to hang out, talking about where to go, etc. And we somehow got into a huge fight about Another Gay Movie and the 9/11 Movies. Ugh! That’s a bad sign.

Oh, I also think that some of the off-networks are coming out with better original programming then the major networks. Ala: ThreeMoons, Kyle XY, Psych, etc.

And lastly, I was on adam4adam this weekend, and this guy messaged me. He was rude and stupid, so I ignored his message.. Then he sent me another one with “?”. I ignored that, then ANOTHER… With just: “???”. I blocked him. THEN he messages my myspace account… Said: “HAHA BITCH I FOUND YOU NOW IM GONNA HACK YOUR BITCH ASS I GOT YOUR IP AND ALL YOUR INFORMATION SO YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR ASS CAUSE I WANT NO LIE AND NO JOK I GOT ALL YORU INFORMATION AND IM SHUTTING YOUR ASS DOWN“

I blocked him. THEN, one of my friends messages me and says that he sent her a message telling her that I gave him a blowjob, that I have AIDS and that he’s apparently messaging everyone on my friends list.. UGH! What is it with stupid fuckers. So annoying.

The VPN is down, YET AGAIN. Which means I can’t do work. This is so annoying.

Adios!