Now that I work for a certain company, I have to use a certain operating system. The chief characteristic of this operating system as it relates to this post is that I have to restart it all the fucking time (because of forced security updates). I got in an argument--well a discussion actually--with my coworkers about it. A discussion is a lot like an argument except that you simply cave to whatever their opinion is after a few minutes. Anyway apparently the reason a certain OS needs to be restarted all the time is backwards compatibility--they can't fix how the system is architected because they want to stay compatible with ridiculously old programs. In fact, the people I was arguing with weren't even sure that you could architect a system with enough things in user space so that you don't need to restart for every little update. I had to point out three times that linux has this capability, and that since linux exists, is proves it is possible. They still weren't sure. People here seem to have some kind of filter.
Anyway, since I have to restart I want to same some random links I've accumulated. These are mostly from reddit, thanks to the time it takes to install a certain operating system on 10 virtual machines:
1. TODO: get a profile picture like this: http://imgur.com/s10M4
2. Amazing bigass ship: http://imgur.com/a/oRQQx
3. Awesome comic making fun of eco nerds: http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/ecofriendly.png
4. Awesome clock make of a candle: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_clock#
5. Reason to own a baboon someday: http://www.earthfoot.org/lit_zone/signalmn.htm
some stuff on azure blog storage:
-http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-storage-libraries-in-many-languages
-http://www.codeplex.com/
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