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anything...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yeah, Or what I was gonna google.
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Seen on a T-shirt:
Heard it all
Seen it all
Forgotten it all
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: anything...
Precisely! That's what wives are for! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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But what does one do if it's the wife that has the memory problems? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Be screwed?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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But you know, anyway...
Wait.
What the hell I am writing about?
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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except those things that have no useful purpose in life.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I was testing a prototype board to find out where the fault was in it.
I narrowed it down through a combination of software checks and logic probes.
Everything was all well and good so I took a nap.
Apparently whilst napping, I finished up the work on that board. And then after I set it aside it started smoking.  
Then I woke up.
I'm glad I usually don't remember my dreams. Who needs that kind of stress?
Give me lunatic killers chasing me through the woods, ghosts, or whatever else, but don't mess with my work, dreams! That gets me.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Yeah, the ghost dreams are the worst. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My dreams I remember seem to be me being feckless and destroying equipment. That hardly seems inspiring.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Don't knock work-related dreams! Kekule supposedly realised that Benzene had its structure in a dream.
Benzene (C6H6) was assumed to have a structure of 6 carbon atoms in a row, with 6 hydrogen atoms. It should have been extremely active, because it has 14 valence electrons, but only 6 of them are bound. Kekule fell asleep on a carriage, and dreamed that the carbon atoms arranged themselves in a circle. This, of course, has properties that differ from those of a line of carbon atoms, It later turned out that his intuition was correct.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Then I woke up.
Regularly. And vivid dreams, that make you wonder whether it was real. And hence, coffee. Wake up, coffee and a smoke.
honey the codewitch wrote: Give me lunatic killers chasing me through the woods
I think I prefer dreaming over being chased through a wood.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I meant in my dreams!
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I meant in my dreams!
You know food had influence on your dreams? 
Maybe this helps, imagine falling when trying to sleep. That way, adrenaline is created and you won't sleep, so no bad dreams.
And yes, after reading this, there's a good chance you dream about falling.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I set it aside it started smoking
It wouldn't share?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I just discovered a driver in System32\drivers named spaceport.sys. Now that's a cool driver name.
I assume it's for the storage spaces feature.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's probably from an application that calculates storage for Port wine 
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Would you have any grey poupon?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And right down the street, there's spacedump.sys. You know, the seedier side of Storage Spaces.
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We had a hardware engineer with a penchant for cute acronyms. One board was named PIGLET, which was something like Printhead Inkjet Generator Link Electrical Transmitter, or something like that. This board was succeeded by the Selectable Width Fiber Transmitter, or SWiFT board.
A while back we detected a problem in the power-on startup logic on the SWiFT board. The firmware load would occasionally fail on a cold start (boot from power-up) but always succeeded on a subsequent warm start (Windows restart). We're in the middle of redesigning the hardware and didn't want to deal with a driver update, so I wrote a little program that runs at boot time. If it detects the firmware load failure, it issues a Windows restart.
This program is called SWiFTkick. :rim-shot:
Software Zen: delete this;
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