Man, competency interviews are tough, especially over a crappy phone connection with a French accent guy.
"Trying to remember a time you solve problems and overcame expectations and did a barrel roll in a helicopter 5 years ago while programming a PENUS PENUS PENUS program..."
I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER YESTERDAY DAMMIT!

Anyhoo, hopefully I'll get an actual interview and eventually a job with HP out of it. 

And now, off to the dentist.

I just realised it's Groundhog Day.

I'm guessing he saw his shadow. I sure as hell saw mine first thing this morning.

Yer confusing me with my cousin, the groundhog. a bit near-sighted, a little fatter, and a lot dumber.

Ugh, damn crazy accidents, I have had some doozies lately.

A few days ago accidently missetup a CB radio so that when it transmitted it caused the sound to come out over every speaker in the room, and REBOOT AND CRASH every computer in the HOUSE. WHOOPS!

Someone told me that as I didnt use an antenna tuned to the paticular CB I most likely put out an overmodulated signal that could be picked up by anything metal. Well frack me hard, oops!

Mid last year accidenly did something that CRASHED a web based MMO fully for TWO WEEKS

Game is at http://space.coldfirestudios.com
I asked one admin if a paticular thing was acceptable. they said they had to ask another admin and get back to me, they did and said it was ok. I later asked the admin who the other admin asked what they thought of it, they just laughed and said they heard about it, nothing about not doing it.

So I started doing it, others asked me how it was done so I told them. Apparently that build caused small errors in the database, that as more people did it exponentially fracked the database, ending in a two week crash.

Basicly it was a way to get a class of weapon on a scout (space based game) that a scout was not ment to have (did not give ANY power advantage, was just funny) it was basicly giving a scout fighters instead of beams or missles.

They didnt do any more damage, but the idea of a tiny little scout having a wing of fighters is just funny to attack someone with. And scouts are the weakest ships, so its no MIL advantage, just funny.

Apparently scouts having fighters which they arnt ment to have makes the database have kittens when calcing battles. So when many people were doing it at once it crashed the whole game.

I was going to get in massive trouble, but I keep COMPLETE logs of all my IRC and IM conversations. I compiled a full record of my asking about it and getting the green light to do it. In short, my logs saved my ass from a permaban.

I rarely screw stuff up, but it seems my screwups lately are cutting a very large swath of damage!

Just wondering how BAD the news frellup will be.

The CB had what I think is a N-connector for an antenna on it, I used this mag mount antenna I have for a differnt CB that used a RCA type plug, I clipped the cable and only connected it to the connector, I was only running a test, not going for full use. Antenna was very similar to a normal radio extending antenna.

I think it was the fact odd voltage was going thru the soundcard, I could hear what I would say over the CB in my headphones and over my speakers in the room. I have an external breakout box for my audigy sound card that is well away from the computer and was about 2 feet from the antenna.
One computer may have just restarted ealier, by my other machine in here rebooted too.

odd thing is, first thing I knew of my PC fracking up was my PDA making a undocking sound, I had already been hearing the CB over the speakers and messing with that. I went to the computer and it was seemingly off, but the power light was still on, so I turned it off then back on. windows came right back, although I HAD it disabled somehow just hibernated.

went back to using the CB this time the computer had total kittens and shutdown hard, came back up and kept asking for its bios flash file, now I was paniced, rebooted it a few times, kept asking.

Powered it off for a few min, powered it back on and it came back on ok and booted up, but sheesh that was not a good thing.

really dont know how a mere 4w did all that, but yikes.

Yeah I did, I can now heat things to 98.6f by putting them in my mouth 

How much power are you allowed to put out at 2.4ghz with your license? I wonder because people setting the long range wifi records are at most using 1.5w and I know of antennas like http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/2.4gig/stage6.php
that can take 100w and have a very narrow beam width. with the proper licences and setup could BLOW current records out of the fracking water.

I am thinking of trying a atheros (they can listen on one antenna and transmit on the other) on each end of a link, using a large dish to listen, and max fcc wifi power on the transmitter to see what I can do.

Can't do that any time soon though, currently recovering from spinal surgery and not working. But when I can it would be damn nice to see if I cant get a group of people with much higher power licenses together to run a rig between two far far apart mountains.

I had read that with a ham license you were allowed 100w instead of just 1w or whatnot, if the current record holders were using just 1.5w using dual antennas as amps can be dirty and effect the cards reception might really be able to make one bloody hell of a long range link.

and its a full antenna, magnetic mount with a long colapseable antenna on it, part of anther CB's kit, for mounting on the roof of a car, but antenna instead of being the whip like antenna is much more like the retractable one on rabbit ears, stereos and the works.

Langly, get my e-mail from my profile.  The e-mail I sent you just bounced.

Awesome. Wish I voted for you in POTM now Robi.

Thanks, Robi, but where's the happy ending? There should be seltzer all over the place.

Testing sig block. I just can't help myself when it comes to animated signatures.
Edit: Shit. It breaks them up.

Nevermind. Back to text for me.

Thought he gave us 5N$ for every stamp in our passports?

My favourite Nix moment:

"I'd like the movie voice-over guy to read me a cook-book"

In a world..... where you take two eggs.... and a bowl.....

Only then.... will you mix and place them in the oven for 2 hours at 300 degrees....

See the little state I colored in black?  It's -3ºF here.

 

Originally posted by futuramafreak:


See the little state I colored in black?  It's -3ºF here.

My mom's vacationing in Chicago right now. She calls just to complain about the weather and how cold it is... I can't stand it!

 

Originally posted by Melllvar:
Thought he gave us 5N$ for every stamp in our passports?

was that EVERY SINGLE stamp in our passport?
or just on this world domination trip? the difference is alot.. i tried to find his post but no cigar...

my favourite nix moment was when he thought the phrase 'pash' ment 'i want to eat your face off'...
the word 'pash' means to kiss someone...and fortunately, i pulled back in time to keep my face as he demonstrated what he thought it ment...

so you almost fell for that old "pretend not to know what pash means, so I can act like I'm going to eat your face off and then really go into for a kiss at the last second" trick?

I just cut off my beard.

Self-hack job? Or did you get a pretty woman to give you layers 

VF:  you should see ABF do the reinactment... hilarious.

ABF: I'm going to assume you and I will have the same amount of stamps from this trip, therefore the same amount of Nixorbucks. Meh, I'm lazy.
Really? N$40? That can't be right?

Yeah we got a stamp - when we were forced to miss our connection in Frankfurt and spend the night there. Grrr....

One stamp in, one stamp out.

It's N$5 per stamp.

And yeah, I guess it adds up to about 8 stamps... Arghghgh now I need to know! Where's my damn passport?

We dont' get stamped for driving thru belgium and netherlands. Only when passing thru customs... like at an airport - or when you get stopped for a drug check in Calais *shakes fist*