It seems my days as an unemployed bum are numbered... Thought I'd be more relaxed after three months of doing nothing. Sad as it is to admit, I'm not as good at being unemployed as I thought I'd be. I didn't fill my days with pursuit of art and culture. I just read a few technical books, interviewed a lot and obsessed over the job hunt. Besides an ( Read more... )

I'm not much of an observer of religious holidays. To clarify - I will celebrate any religious or non-religious holiday that involves a nice meal and/or people giving me presents. I do not participate in or concern myself with the religious part of the celebration ( Read more... )

Through a combination of googling and following links I came across the Unreliable Guide to Hacking the Linux Kernel. I understand roughly half of the content, but this side note was pretty straight forward ( Read more... )

Based on my profile and job searching activities Career Builder came up with a job recommendation for me - Help Desk position located in Afghanistan...
I'm more troubled by the Help Desk part.

These days I spend my time honing my professional skillz to razor sharp perfection.
In the midst of this endeavor I came across a function I've never heard of before. It's a function for "frobnicating bytes".

void * memfrob (void *s, size_t n);

This function obscures the first n bytes of memory starting at s by exclusive-ORing each byte with the ( Read more... )

Instead of cleaning out yet another set of viruses on my parents' computer I put down the law... And by that I mean I installed Ubuntu on their desktop. It was a most enjoyable installation process. It just worked. Detected everything it should have detected including the Windows operating system. It came with Firefox and Open Office, so I had ( Read more... )

After two weeks of indulging sloth and gluttony to assuage anger and pride I'm back in town. Back in the real world and ready to face life as an unemployed bum.

It was nice being an unemployed bum here, if only for a short while


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Last day on the job. It feels surreal ( Read more... )

I went to work today. I don't know why. Because it's Monday and that's what I normally do on Mondays, I suppose. Neither roads nor sidewalks were shoveled. It took quite some effort to get to the train station. Nowhere on the way as I was hopping and slipping and sniffling and stomping did it occur to me to turn around. I may be a loser, but I'm ( Read more... )

Got a fun escalation ticket today: User can't log in to his linux desktop - ukraine ( Read more... )