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December 18th, 2019
Up until August 2015 I worked for EnhancedVOIP Inc. aka EasyOfficephone.COM.
It was a nice job and it gave me a job for 8 years if you count the years
past 2015 until 2018 that I worked for Jive Canada the company that emerged
when Jive aquired easyofficephone.com. Then 1 week after I handed in my
resignation (it was really bad bad timing on my part) Jive was aquired by
LogMeIn a company out of Boston. This was March 2018. I guess it didn't
take long because LMI was aquired by a
Private-Equity firm. So had I stayed with Jive Canada,
this would have been the 3rd aquisition in 4.5 years, or roughly an aquisition
every 1.5 years. I read a little on y.combinator.org (HN), that the
4.3 billion dollars are going to be tried to be recovered. Someone used the
example of "You are an orange, someone aquired you and is trying to sell you
as Orangejuice". There is likely a lot of pressure on individual employees
there. I'm not sure if I got out OK. I know I can kiss all the savings I
made at Jive and easyofficephone.com goodbye (because I lived on it for 1.5
years while looking for a new job), and the job I went to didn't
work out unfortunately. I caught a strain of bad luck in 2018, and now I'm
working to make amends with what I got and with help from the german (un-)
employement office. I'll be keeping tabs though to see what happens to LMI,
I know they dissassembled the network I was system administrating sometime
early this year. It lasted about a year after I left. The remnant of that
network are still found on the internet for example if you did a dig...
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net enhancedvoip.net ns
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13279
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
But other than that the network is dead as a doorknob. I guess Jive Canada
was integrated into Jive USA technology wise. Which is really a good thing
because we had software from 2010 and before running on it. It was patched
all along on the servers (that was my job) but the core functions weren't
changed.
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Some politicians want longer nuclear life
December 18th, 2019
Angela Merkel already said that we're abandoning the nuclear power plants.
Are you gonna make her a hypocrite? She'll go down in history as a farce.
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I have created my first X11 application in 18 years
December 17th, 2019
I did this in GTK+. It was painful but here is a screenshot for the sha256
calculator (same output as sha256 -b). You can also specify a number of
rounds which will feed the output back into the SHA256 function. Here is a
screenshot.
I'm stoked right now.
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Identifying my conflict by names
December 16th, 2019
When I was working I had a conflict of interest. Always. The conflict was
IRC chat, Open Source programming and Knowledge Seeking. In 1997 I would
literally lead the life of a junky. Computers were my drug. I'd work my
afternoon-night shift and then go home to IRC about two hours. In the morning
I'd maybe program for two hours before going to work. Back then the programs
were tiny, it was more knowledge seeking than programming.
In 2017 I would
literally lead the life of a junky. Computers were my drug. I'd work the
afternoon-night shift and then go to bed. In the mornings I'd program on my
open source program.
I've always felt a pressure sorta like a split personality when doing work and
when persueing my hobbies. Obviously there was little time for exercise and
that's why I'm 400 lbs now (the meds helped too). I'm offering this
information for free for anyone
because perhaps someone has a solution how to manage these things on a timely
manner, so that I lead less the life of a junky but rather the life of a human
being. Every problem has a solution.
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I'm fourty-four and fat, setting up computers is for 20 somethings
December 05th, 2019
Just turned down a job because I refuse to set up computers for a job.
Crawling under desks is for 20-somethings who are physically able to do so.
I've gone through too many pairs of jeans that I've ruined doing that in
the past that I know this isn't a job for me. Next.
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Three Months left for SolarScale.DE
November 30th, 2019
I'm letting this domain expire. I've had it for around 10 years. Just gotta
update my contact addresses on my registrar as I believe this domain name
always finds it back as the owner address. I'll contact my registration
agent soon.
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Slashdot turned Anonymous Coward postings off
November 28th, 2019
And there is a story that I commented on.. it was in regard to a Go player
quitting becuase "AI cannot be defeated"
Well here is my Reply:
A human brain is about 20cm by 20cm by 15cm give or take 5 cm on each end.
It is said to consume around 35 Watts. Can a computer beat that? We know
a computer can beat a human mind at gaming...but how large is this computer
is it a super computer, a quantum computer or a single little SoC computer?
This is what's important nothing else matters. And.. we dream!
Dreaming.. because we cannot explain it, oughta rock the sockets off a computer.
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Christmas is exactly 1 month away
November 25th, 2019
Other important dates include the december solstice on the 22nd of december.
The major thing keeping me busy currently is putting the final codes in for
delphinusdnsd 1.4, which is expected to be released on or before december 31st.
Next week is the 1st of advent. Have a Merry Season!
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