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susan	[no subject]	Tue 28th Nov 2000, 22:40 link
Downloading OpenOffice just to check it out. At the moment im using the even more pre-alpha gnome office, which also promises to be very good. For the past few months I have been running a totally free and open source system. I've had no problems yet, and have not had any problems replicating my old setup, and infact, now find myself MUCH more productive than I ever was using commercial software. Im also starting to realise why free open source software is such a good idea. Every day, in every way, people I don't know, directors of large companies, government officials, people I don't care about, who don't know anyhting about me, or what I want/need, and don't care about me, are spending time and money thinking of new ways to take my freedom away from me. When was the last law passed, or last product released, or lisence agreement agreed to, that didnt take away your freedom, eat away at your rights in some small (or large) way? Every piece of commercial software I have ever used, has taken away my rights in what seems like a small way, but is actually quite a large problem, if you work with computers, and live with computers on a day-today basis, and have important data stored on computers. Software vendors risk YOUR data, and YOUR work on a day to day basis by releasing software that is incredibly flawed, and more often than not you have signed a lisence promising you wont disclose any problems you find, publish any benchmarks, test the software, reverse-engineer it in any way, or ever complain about it. Even when you do complain about it, the vendor still doesnt care, and doesnt do anything to help. What if it was illegal to open the bonnet (hood) of your car? what if there was a flaw in that car that made the petrol tank explode when something bumped in to the back of it? What if this happened and your family died? What if opening the bonnet to find the flaw made the car manufacturor exempt from blame? I suppose noone would care and think that that was the risk you take when driving a car. If the government passed the law, and a lawyer wrote the lisence, then it MUST be the best deal for me. After all they care about me, and arent just out to make their own lives easier and make money Making money isn't a bad thing, oh no, far from it, capitalism is good, and it works, when the market is driven by the consumers, after all they are the ones that start off with the all the money. When the companies get smart and the consumers get stupid, the advertising, and hence the companies get to drive the market, because stupid consumers (90%) will buy what the corporations tell them to, and ignore the better products. I'd rather spend my hard earned money based on rational decisions, and not pick whatever has the best logo. Moral of the story: the stupid people who make up 99% of the earths population give power to companies, and governments, so that they may take away everyones freedom, and at the same time ensure they live better lives than us. This will probably never change. I like to turn the tables, let the big companies pay for me, it costs the country and the rich taxpayer Ј100 a day to keep you in prison. Businesses scrapped computer equipment yields more pure gold than the same weight of ore. Promotional CDs CAN be made in to ash-trays, coasters, frisbees, jewellery. Promotional leaflets CAN be used to heat the home, either on a fire, or shredded to make insulation. Sales people CAN be insulted, the more they hate thier job, the less productive they will be, the more staff needs to be employed. If you think of better ways to get your money back, mail me.
susan	[no subject]	Tue 28th Nov 2000, 05:44 link
I'm not happy with bAckline in the slightest, I go read his diary and what do I see? Well, I'll paraphrase it for you "All the worlds a stage, and you just got some ice cream. Enjoy it." - One of the things that makes me happy in life is being quite sure of how unhappy I am, and always will be. If I ate the ice cream and enjoyed it, I'd probably die of some freak dairy infection, passed to humans via ice cream, which was passed to the ice cream via BSE infected cows spinal columns or something. When you see a happy person, beware, they are probably stupid; and will have probably dribbled ice cream all over themselves. Oh....erm....ah I see things clearly now! He was just building up to an excuse for when he resets his jismometer. "It's ice cream, honest guvna!"
susan	[no subject]	Mon 27th Nov 2000, 19:59 link
I LOVE winter, its the best season. Outside the trees are still bearing the russet colours of autumn, the ground is damp and coated with leafy winter mulch, the air - heavy and cold. The night sky clear as crystal, the day is never really light, always dim, and dark. I love the sound of the rain gently falling against the grass in my garden, and the street, and my window, they all sound slightly different, but all are pleasing. Howerver, there is one abomination that scars this great season, and that, my friends, is christmas! I hate it with a venom. Lots of idiots rushing around to buy the most plastic coated, shrink wrapped, glitter attacked, bubble packaged, sqeezed out of a tube rubbish in order to give it to thier equally annoying friends and relatives. Crappy christmas adverts everywhere, cheap, tacky, they all seem to remind me of bad club singers, on some popular crap brittish seaside promenade. Everyone saying "I wish it would snow!" and then when it does its a catastrophe, and part of this non-existent fucking global warming propoganda, propogated by the gay and lesbian environmentalist front. Spoils all my happy memories of christmas as a child. None of my happy memories involve people. Is that odd? My throat hurts, and I've run out of lemsip yet again. :(
susan	[no subject]	Sat 25th Nov 2000, 17:08 link
I'm so tired, went out last night with nearly all the geek-ware gang (reminds me of press gang, cept theres no dexter fletcher, or julia sawalha) Got a bit drunk, and very very silly. We went to a place in leeds called the drydock, which is a big boat hauled up on to the land, and with a bar. I got to play captain and steer the steering wheel for about 5 minutes. Many a joke about rear admirals, the sailor one from the village people, captain haddock from tintin, and poop decks, oh, and pirates. Got back to bAcklines and stayed up till about 6am watching fightclub. Oh, and eating cake, mmm, chocolate. Lots of people walking past the rat and parrot heard me calling them lesbians, whoops, someone could have hit me. Maybe a lesbian, with doc martens boots, or something.
susan	[no subject]	Fri 24th Nov 2000, 17:50 link
I am currently at backlines house, covertly writing this. Im not sure about the rumours his gherkin-jerkin-o-meter have been reset. There is a heavy stench in the air and some unexplained stains here and there. Also his outlook wank-task-meter is showing a green icon. I dont have my codebook with me, so im not sure what this means. Got to go, like I say, im being covert :) Seeing some of the porn on his computer actually, i suspect he may be a closet lesbian.
susan	[no subject]	Thu 23rd Nov 2000, 07:58 link
Up late again, programming, I cant get to sleep, honest I've tried! - I need some fucking sedatives or something, mmmm valium. Well I went to bed, then couldn't sleep, so I trolled usenet for a bit, catching up on my favourite newsgroups, to discover that people were anticipating the next release of some software that I wrote. Well, I hadn't touched the code in 20 days, so I had to do something really, especially seeing as some nice bloke had written a patch for it (the app is open source). That was actually quite nice, cos it saved me time. So, a quick coding stint, some debugging, polished up my Makefile, updated the documentation, uploaded the code. Got my brain going at least. Cept now i cant sleep again cos my throat is so sore :( I remind myself of a monty python skit, about the not-at-all-boring programmer, heh. He woke up in the morning, limbered up his brain, with some hexadecimal to binary conversions, factored some prime numbers, then converted them back to octal. Heh, I never thought I'd end up a computer programmer, of all things. A dead drug adict pimp maybe. Or a malevolant millionaire mock-philanthropist, with a big car, a boat, and adopted orphan daughters who I also sleep with. Dont think I ever wanted to be a rock star or an astronaut...
susan	[no subject]	Thu 23rd Nov 2000, 00:34 link
I'll start todays lesson on life with a song: why does it alwaaaaaaays raiiiiin on me, is it cos ive been in a crap band since i was seventeeeeen why caant any of us play any musical instruments with more competance than a six year old? oh, that doesnt rhyme, damn. Heh, I just ate THE biggest pizza, I think I may be hallucinating due to the sheer amount of cheese I have just injested (oo er, reminds me of a story about alanis morissette, which is quite amusing.) Im pretty sure Alanis is a lesbian, well, at least a bi-sexual. I'm not saying thats a bad thing, oh no, far from it. Hmmm, i feel a few mpegs coming on. I feel sorry for bAckline, hes bAckwards. I'll have to get him some videos of press gang (y'know with Julia Sawahla) - that would fuck up his spooge-o-meter.
susan	[no subject]	Wed 22nd Nov 2000, 18:55 link
Maybe the last entry did'nt make much sence, im still bored, and can't concentrate on this CCNA stuff. I may just browse the cisco website some more and order a cisco jacket or something. Im gonna do some tests on thespark.com i think. I'll let you know how I get on. I'm 81% bitch. I'm 83% greedy. The proxy here, wouldn't let me do the sluttest :( Always remember, a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush, and one on your cock. Or something.
susan	[no subject]	Wed 22nd Nov 2000, 18:19 link
Here we are, a week later, an I am now AT my CCNA course, had some fun playing with gregs nerf gun. I 0wned martins azz with my nerf skillz. And hes now looking over my shoulder as i type this. I hate him :) FUCKS SAKE! I hate having to use windows it fucking bites. This machine took longer to log on than my system does to do a full reboot. So my mind has to be put in this fucking annoying wait state. And then it pops up loads of (rather amusing) errors. "Module йунъъйн not found" grrr. Gah, I've also got tonsilitis or something, my throat is red raw, I must have caught it of backline or spork, or maybe some farmyard animal, im not sure. The amount of caffiene in my body is making me forget all about it tho. I've had 5 or 6 of gregs caffiene loaded mints, and some Dr Pepper too. Whoah Well, i have just found out, im 8 chapters behind, fuck it :( I think martin is a lesbian.
susan	[no subject]	Wed 15th Nov 2000, 21:03 link
Missed out on going to my CCNA course today, had to do some real work (tm). It's a shame really, anything educational I can't really seem to fully apply myself to. I have the organisational capability of a...uhm...squirrel. Damn, they collect nuts for winter don't they? Little bastards, out-organising me. Well anyway, I have taken no notes on the course so far, I can't even remember what fucking chapter I'm up to, and have no idea where I am supoposed to be up to. Guess I'll just have to wonder around the cisco website a bit more....oooh they sell some nice looking jackets and sweaters and stuff. Bollocks, now the flash stuff on the cisco website just went nuts, and I had to close my browser, bah humbug.

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