Eric Covener's Journal

New take on JFG…

Covener — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:29:54 +0000

Submit the form to see the effect.

Joel on middle management

Covener — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:14:01 +0000

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/02b.html

Here’s a tip from someone who has read thousands of resumes. When you’re applying to a startup, or a software company with less than, say, 100 employees, you may want to highlight the Banging Out Code parts of your experience, while deemphasizing the Middle Management parts of your experience.
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If you’ve been in a large company for too long, you may feel that you put in your time, with all those years working your way up the hierarchy from the $50,000 coder jobs to the $250,000 Senior Vice President in Charge of Long Meetings With Other Senior Vice Presidents, and you’re kind of enjoying the nice parking space and the personal assistant and stuff, and coding? not so much, so now you’ve found a cool startup or small company, and you’re thinking, maybe now’s the time to jump ship? So you send your resume with your ERP stuff and SAP stuff and Vice President stuff to the startup, and it gets tossed.

configuration error: couldn’t check access. No groups file?

Covener — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:34 +0000

If you see this in Apache 2.2.x, you’re using a Require type that no module recognizes, and you don’t have mod_authz_default loaded

If you’re just using “Require valid-user”, you need mod_authz_user loaded.

You would only hit this if you don’t start with the default config file, or you over-aggressively remove modules.

Circus escapees make run for the border

Covener — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:34:25 +0000

Define voluntary…

Covener — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:42:30 +0000

http://www.newsobserver.com/141/story/1347691.html

Wade died after the Saturday afternoon accident in which a van ran a red light and slammed into a car. Police have charged a Durham woman, Linda Lee Ratliff, 46, with involuntary manslaughter, driving while impaired, driving without a license and having an open container of alcohol in the car.

Busted flash on Debian unstable

Covener — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:14:41 +0000

Apparently the latest v10 flash player (aka flashplugin-nonfree) freaks out when libgtk1.2 has beel loaded into the address space.

Adobe Flash Player: GTK1.x environments not supported. Exiting now

The IBM JDK v5 loads libgtk1.2 into the mozilla/firefox address space, but the v6 java plugin doesn’t seem to. I did the following, pointing to a piece of software that happens to bundle the IBM JDK v6:

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /opt/IHS7000/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 999
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-firefox-javaplugin.so /opt/IHS7000/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 999

Price Is Right 420-guy

Covener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:48:40 +0000

Drew Carey is not excited about TPIR

Covener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:28:13 +0000

(some people claim the fix is in for this bid, turn on annotations and watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUrCBXRH8o&feature=related ; others claim there’s a savant in the audience who knows exact prices of thousands of common showcase items!)

Rock’en droids

Covener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:14:47 +0000

Six degrees of Adolf Hitler

Covener — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:11:17 +0000

<@exel> The SIX DEGREES OF HITLER.
<@exel> 1. Go to Wikipedia
<@exel> 2. Click “Random page”.
<@exel> 3. From where you end up, try and get to the Adolf Hitler article in 6 pages or less.
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Ray
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler