hmmm….

Currently in a waiting room and CNN is on. There was just a commercial for a Sharp deep freezer sized copier/scanner/printer/sink. The business person googled for a restaurant to take a client to on the built in touch screen then presses a button to print a full-color map to the restaurant. What business person would go to the copy building (a room is not big enough) to google a restaurant?

Sorry check back later for pics, Steve Jobs says I don’t need copy & paste as I’m sending this from the wordpress app on my iPhone.

Update:

One note of clearification, as crazy as the feature set on these machines is, I still wouldn’t mind having one to use whenever I wanted, imagine what you could do with it! The commercial I saw is available in flash form at
http://www.sharpusa.com/files/workwithoutlimits.swf.

I was in need of a means to disable upstart scripts in /etc/event.d via some means other than getting rid of the file. Since upstart has no documentation to speak of, I asked my buddy Google.

Google pointed me to the year old bug 94065 in launchpad. I added a quick ‘me too’ and subscribed to updates on the bug. This was back in March. Fast forward to last week and this arrives:

** Changed in: upstart
      Target: 0.5 => None

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Add non-destructive means to disable a job
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94065
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

There is no mention of this change in bug meta-data on the launchpad site, or maybe I’m just not finding it since I lack the doctorate in navigating launchpad necessary to be able to use the site. This prompted an update from the original reporter on the bug asking for more information:

is there a disable method yet? i reported this initially over a year ago. (there may be, but since there’s no upstart manpage on hardy, it’s hard to know. :-)

Now for the asshole fail:

Scott James Remnant wrote on 2008-08-14: (permalink)

Does this bug report say that there is a disable method? Is it marked Fix Released?
No.

I’m not sure what Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>’s roll at Canonical is but perhaps it should be modified to remove any tasks that involve interaction with the public?

I have spent quite some time working on the definitive qmail patch. So as not to keep all this goodness to my self I have decided to make this patch available to all:

http://thegrebs.com/~michael/netqmail-1.06.patch.bz2

Couldn’t pass this up, hard wood and HEAVY. Banged up from years of abuse from kids but many more years left in it, I’m sure.