Gesellschaft für Software und System Entwicklung mbH; SUSE GmbH
That is what SUSE stands for. Bit of an arb fact but we were deciding on what Linux distro to install on our server and SUSE 10 seems the likely candidate.
I did a most foolish thing last night. I loaded up the first episode of series 4 of the Fox T.V. show, 24. I started about 11pm thinking I’d watch one episode and then get back to my book before turning in for the night. 4 hours later at 3am I was on episode 5 and hooked, hooked, hooked. What an utterly addictive show. Thankfully there was a bit of a climax in episode 5 and, with admittedly still a struggle, I switched the laptop off and tried to get some sleep, the plot arcs buzzing through my head.
It really is an excellent show. Sutherland does a good job but mainly it is the story-line and beat driven pace that keeps you glued to the screen.
Some prices from my first few weeks in Ireland.
Relative to what you earn manufactured goods (Levis, books, jumpers) are cheap but food and drink is expensive.
It has been calculated that it would cost 260 billion dollars to build in today’s money
Just heard that about the Great Wall of China.
My new Canon EOS 20D arrived today, after a bit of a battle with the supplier. First impressions are great; fast, solid and a good replacement of my Canon EOS 10D. There is a €100 rebate on the camera plus you get a free 256mb Compact Flash with the camera (sent later after registration of course) and then a rebate booklet which you can use on various lenses and flash units. I’ll write more later on the camera.
Today is remembrance day. Remember the lives before us that saved the lives ahead of us.
Music is as popular in Ireland as drinking and the two are normally found together. The other night Brian took me down to a hole-in-the-wall pub called Katty Barrys. The kind of place you can reach out and touch both sides at the same time. The kind of place the barman is your best mate and is there every night including Christmas. The place was half-full when we arrived and slowly filled up over the next few hours. The musicians had no stage, no roped-off area or even microphones, amps or speakers. They sat at the tables around us drinking and talking, singing and playing. They got up to go smoke outside, they stopped mid tune to have a laugh at a comment. New songs just started up, the flute piping a fleeting ditty and then the others joining in. All night new players arrived, their ranks threatening to overwhelm the listeners.
What really struck me though was most of the players were young. Really young, my age and younger. These weren’t decrepit old men clinging onto old ways, they were the new generation doing what they loved. Drinking and singing, talking and playing.
We went on till three in the morning at which point we left them behind still playing on into the morning.
Just a quick one, I’ll write something lengthier later, but if you are having trouble consuming your .NET web-service with Ruby or Ruby on Rails then update SOAP4R on your system. The version of SOAP4R that comes with Ruby 1.8.2 (which is the version in the One Click Windows Ruby Installer) doesn’t have the create_rpc_driver method which is key.
So update your SOAP4R here and use ruby install.rb to install it.
I wanted to create a web-service in Visual Studio 2005 this morning and had to use Google to find out where in the interface the project template is. It turns out to be here: File - New - Web Site and then you select web-service. Seems a bit odd to me, I don’t think of a web-service as a web-site.
On the other hand having an integrated web-server in the IDE is great. No more fiddling with IIS.
You put the lime in the Coke, you nut, you drink ‘em both together
Put the lime in the Coke, you nut, then you feel better
Put the lime in the Coke, you nut, drink ‘em both up
Put the lime in the Coke, you nut, and call me in the morning
There are funny ads that treat you like an idiot and then there are funny ads that treat you like wicked respek, yo. The Coke Lime advert is something else. I know it is stupid, I know I shouldn’t laugh, or sing along, and I know I am smarter than this but hell, it is a funny ad.
An interesting fact about the advert is that it uses an old, old song by Harry Nilsson that has been slightly reworked. The original lyrics go “You put the lime in the coconut” instead of “You put the lime in the Coke, you nut.”
Sadly I have yet to try Coke Lime. Coke Light with Lemon is terrible but that is thanks to the chemicals to make it Light… I hope.
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