Cozmo's Dev Blog - Idgiots

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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:11:00-0700

Someone actually tested my super advanced Ultramega OK anti "wow gold" spammer technology... so I rolled out a BadMotorBeta. Go ahead... try it. Add a comment and type in "wow gold" in the comment form and see what happens. I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU. Yeah. I thought so.... ya wuss. For the record: BadMotorBeta - copyright © 2009

And I thought I had problems

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:31:00-0700

I got a new phone... Actually I got a new pocket computer (with Windows CE) that came with a built in phone. The thing has more horse power than my workstation back in 2000. So my first thought is, being the geek that I am: What can I get this thing to do? What should I try first? Hmmmmm... Wouldn't it be cool if I could get it to serve up web pages. HEY!!! It *is* connected to the internet. Huh? I wonder if I get it to run Apache? Then the rational part of my brain kicked in: WHOA!!! STOP right there.. I have so much OTHER stuff I need to learn. My to do list could keep me occupied for the next ten years... easy. Then I saw this article in my in my inbox and it made me feel better: Installing Linux on the PlayStation 3. Seriously... is there some sort of 12 step program for this sorta stuff? I am going to end up like this some day (again). The confessions would be funny:

"Hi, my name is Gerald."
"Hi Gerald."
"I tried to turn my phone into a web server...."

FireFox Sucks

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:32:00-0700

I have a love hate relationship with FF. The plugins are great. But it is a ram and CPU WHORE. This is what FF does when I surf on my 2.8 gig P4 laptop. See all those EXTENDED periods where the proccessor is pegged? This is me clicking on links on standard web plain jane web 1.0 html pages. So this is the crown jewel of open source? Is it me or is something very, VERY wrong here?

Open Source my ass

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:54:00-0700

Open Source is starting to get on my nerves. I love open source about 90% of the time. But FF and Eclipse are turning into a bloated sacks of fark that makes MS's worst bloated sack of fark look like notepad. Let me see.... Right now FF is using 450 megs of ram and Eclipse is @ 358 megs. A browser using 450 megs of ram? I close out all but one browser window and it is still using 450 megs. Open what? Suck what? If a site has a flash video (like Youtube), FF pegs the processor of my 3 yr old (1.8 gig P4 - 1.28 gig ram) laptop and grinds it to a farking halt. Unusable. Flash videos also pegs my 2.8 gig duel processor HP box. Nice. No wonder I think that OSS zealots are idiots. "But OSS is FREE!" So is dirt. Blow me.