Latajacy Holender Scribbles of a dutch IT contractor in Poland

10Jan/120

Project Euler

Well now, so I think I haz teh codez?
We'll see. Project Euler here I come.

projecteuler.net

[10012011] Problems 1 and 2 done. 364 to go :/

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16Dec/110

Speakers busted

Must have been all those watts spent during last year's New Year celebrations, paper dust seal ripped. Would cost me 2 weeks to get those itty 80W speakers fixed. Got a 250W amplituner now, so figured I'd build in something with a bit more oomph. Found it in the form of two 50 EUR 300W Peiying bass speakers. Actually meant to build into a car hifi system (4 Ohms and all that) but work just fine.

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15Dec/110

Where was Netscape in ’93? We had NCSA Mosaic :)

Mosaic on X
Mosaic on X
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14Dec/110

Best joke ever

A moth flies into a podiatrist's office and settles on a chair.

Podiatrist: What’s the problem?

Moth: What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Linovich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Linovich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But, I don’t know. I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there…

Podiatrist: Oh yeah?

Moth: Yes. At night I sometimes wake up, and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm; a lady I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to.

Moth: Docc, my youngest, Alexandria; she fell in the cold of last year. The cold took her down as it did many of us.

Moth: Doc, my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc, my other boy, Gregaro Ivinolitanovitch; I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes all I see is the same cowardice that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only the cowardice was stronger, then perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all. Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging onto my web of everlasting fire underneath me. Doc, I’m not feeling good.

Podiatrist: man, you’re in trouble. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here? I'm a podiatrist!

Moth: because the light was on.

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14Dec/110

Get rid of pesky PowerCLI VI prompts

Especially in batch scripts, probably within the context of a scheduled task, prompts are the last thing I'm waiting for. Specifically the "Are you sure?" prompts like "Perform operation?".

The trick is in the use of the $false constant in combination with -Confirm.
Examples:
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultVIServerMode multiple -Confirm:$false
Disconnect-VIServer -Server * -Force -Confirm:$false

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13Dec/110

Vette clip

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12Dec/110

Laptop busted

Total wreck. Harddisk corrupted, GPU busted due to excessive heat buildup. I'm NEVER buying another Pavillion.

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9Dec/110

Finished uCMDB DDMa ESX 4i Layer2 discovery

Needed Powershell for this to happen though.
Wait now for HP to put their own solution into the box.

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9Dec/110

FB Platinum

Did it almost all by myself. Had a little push in the back from AMEX Gold (4 gratis qualifying flights), however was counting on end of december. Managed it 2 weeks early. AMEX Platinum gives 8 even. But that one costs an arm and a leg.

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6Dec/110

Dutch deals websites

Got laughed at today for not knowing about these deals websites.
I'm so out of touch with the functional side of the interweb.

http://ichica.nl/

http://www.ibood.com/nl/nl

http://www.waat.nl/

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