Useful lessons at 4:30 am...
Posted on 8/13/2005 4:45 am in Real Life Adventures
I've missed a lot of work this week because I haven't been doing
well. I've decided I'm going to work tomorrow no matter
what. I've also decided the only way I'll make it is if I don't
go to sleep tonight. Silly Lortab causes me to be an insomniac.
Right now, I'm sitting here watching Stargate SG-1, S01E10, "The Torment of Tantalus". I think it's funny that this episode directly contradicts some things that were said in an episode of Atlantis last season. During this episode, a man goes through the gate with a rope attached to him. The gate shuts off and the rope severs, but the man comes through unscathed on the other side. Last season on Atlantis, they said the gate operates with "discrete units" that can't be seperated. According to them, the man wouldn't have materialized because the whole thing didn't go through.
The whole thing could be explained as the ancients building in a safeguard that could ignore it since it was just a rope and not a whole space ship like in the other episode. SG-1 is usually pretty good about following their own rules like this, but everyone makes mistakes. I also found it interesting that everything is destroyed by the "splash" even though an iris that is microns away from the event horizon isn't affected by it. I've read that mistake was the director or producer's fault and not the scripts though.
While I'm doing all of that, I'm also trying to install MaxDB on Saturn for work. And I realize I'm not getting paid for it, but it gives me something to do. I looked into it more, and it seems that it doesn't have to be installed on Linux or Windows, but a binary release isn't available. At least, that's my assumption. It's in the process of compiling, so I'll update later on success or failure.
An important lesson I learned recently while working on the HolosNet IRCd project is the importance of gmake. I'm used to being able to type make and compile code, but occasionally will come across something that will fail. I usually just assume that it's not going to work for me and quit, but I've discovered that in those situations gmake will usually work instead. I haven't bothered to check out the differences between them yet. For now, it's enough to know that it's an option. (MaxDB's build tools had to be built with gmake.)
Right now, I'm sitting here watching Stargate SG-1, S01E10, "The Torment of Tantalus". I think it's funny that this episode directly contradicts some things that were said in an episode of Atlantis last season. During this episode, a man goes through the gate with a rope attached to him. The gate shuts off and the rope severs, but the man comes through unscathed on the other side. Last season on Atlantis, they said the gate operates with "discrete units" that can't be seperated. According to them, the man wouldn't have materialized because the whole thing didn't go through.
The whole thing could be explained as the ancients building in a safeguard that could ignore it since it was just a rope and not a whole space ship like in the other episode. SG-1 is usually pretty good about following their own rules like this, but everyone makes mistakes. I also found it interesting that everything is destroyed by the "splash" even though an iris that is microns away from the event horizon isn't affected by it. I've read that mistake was the director or producer's fault and not the scripts though.
While I'm doing all of that, I'm also trying to install MaxDB on Saturn for work. And I realize I'm not getting paid for it, but it gives me something to do. I looked into it more, and it seems that it doesn't have to be installed on Linux or Windows, but a binary release isn't available. At least, that's my assumption. It's in the process of compiling, so I'll update later on success or failure.
An important lesson I learned recently while working on the HolosNet IRCd project is the importance of gmake. I'm used to being able to type make and compile code, but occasionally will come across something that will fail. I usually just assume that it's not going to work for me and quit, but I've discovered that in those situations gmake will usually work instead. I haven't bothered to check out the differences between them yet. For now, it's enough to know that it's an option. (MaxDB's build tools had to be built with gmake.)
