http://blog.laubenheimer.net/ Random thoughts, articles, ranticles, and musings from an iconoclastic geek. en-us Copyright 2011 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:18:48 -0800 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:29:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Last month, a retired volunteer for an Linux-based charity had a stroke. See this: When "minor" and "devestating" are used in the same sentence. Because of brutal, inhumane state and federal policies dictated by Wall Street, she is ineligible for... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000083.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000083.html WeltPolitik Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:18:48 -0800 By now it's been over a month since Amazon AWS East went down, hard, for five days and pulled the shine off of the cloud hype. Now that I'm not working again, I have time to comment on the stupidity.... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000082.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000082.html sysadmin Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:42:37 -0800 You know, it's really cool to work for a company that contributes stuff to open source, like this: zeromq input and output modules for rsyslog.... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000081.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000081.html linux Thu, 26 May 2011 15:04:18 -0800 There is a tendency in the Silicon Valley to only hire "Recent College Grads" - this means young people, under 30, but with a politically correct gloss on it. http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000079.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000079.html sysadmin Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:47:56 -0800 OK, so "Cloud Computing" is a fancy way of saying hosted data storage, servers or applications. Your stuff on someone else's hardware, for a fee. They do the drudge work, you do the thinking and rake in the money, right? http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000078.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000078.html sysadmin Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:54:18 -0800 Silly companies, has no one told you that we are in a deprerecession? When you hire an H1(b) for a US job, you hamper the recovery. When you refuse to consider an unemployed applicant, you shoot yourself in the face.... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000077.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000077.html ranticles Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:37:07 -0800 "Cloud Computing" is supposedly the next big thing in computing. "Everybody is looking to develop a cloud strategy", blah, blah. It's ninety-five percent hype. That's the nicest thing I have to say about it. http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000076.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000076.html business Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:50:43 -0800 OK, we know that the Republican party has become the party of religious conservatives, corporate pandering and bellicose foreign relations. No longer fiscally responsible, they say "No" to any spending or tax cut for the middle class, and "Yes" to any and all spending and tax cuts for huge corporations and the wealthy. They want to get all up in people's private business, and push their pseudo-religious agenda onto everyone by force of law, but don't want a single regulation to touch their precious corporations and how they do business with the public. That's not a true conservative, IMO. It's a parody owned and operated by corporate and religious interests (that are often in bed together, too.) http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000075.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000075.html WeltPolitik Tue, 12 May 2009 19:50:58 -0800 #amazonfail) and various blogs and exploded. ]]> http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000074.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000074.html business Mon, 11 May 2009 13:42:33 -0800 Borrow and Spend The next 8 or more years will have to be Tax and Repay.]]> http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000073.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000073.html WeltPolitik Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:01:44 -0800 Order placed 11/18 @ 11:30 am with 2 day Prime shipping: Items shipped on November 18, 2008: Delivery estimate: November 19, 2008 1 package via UPS * 1 of: Sony Stamina Platinum Alkaline D Batteries (4 Pack) Sold by: Amazon.com,... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000072.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000072.html business Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:24:55 -0800 Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels. Amazon's long awaited music download service is not laden with useless, crippling, and insulting DRM. Yes, Apple iTunes finally... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000071.html business Wed, 16 May 2007 12:58:42 -0800 Dear Jerk Food Producers, If I get a hold of one of your single serving containers of crap, and it says "0 grams of trans fat", I expect it to really be Zero. Yet if I read the ingredients list,... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000070.html ranticles Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:18:51 -0800 I've been fighting a losing battle with my energy usage for a good 20 years. With over 4 computers, three TVs and attendant recorders, two printers, a fax, two freezers, two fridges, two A/C units and two microwaves, my electric... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000068.html misc musings Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:29:43 -0800 News Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a coalition of west coast social justice-based homelessness organizations, has released a report that documents how more than 25 years of federal... http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html http://blog.laubenheimer.net/archives/000067.html WeltPolitik Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:50:34 -0800