Mild Mannered Musings of a Twisted Molius

Monday, October 16, 2006

Auf deutsch:

14 Tage

Sunday, October 15, 2006

En français:

15 jours

Saturday, October 14, 2006

17 - 1 = 16 days

Friday, October 13, 2006

pain in my ass

i'm taking a quick break to write this out because i need to. i'm trying to find out if a server we have that is currently in tower form factor can be converted into a rack mounted server.

actually, 2 of them, so i googled the first and within a minute or so, i was looking at the dell page that had the information i was looking for on that server (PowerEdge 1800 tower).

when i tried to look for the information on a different model (PowerEdge 800) i was drawing blank. google found a site in the UK that has a solution, but it seems to be a 3rd party option, so i figured i'd look at dell's site (again) to see if i could find it. i've spent the last 15 minutes trying to navigate the site trying to find where ACCESSORIES are.

dell used to have a semi-navigatable site. but now, it's a fucking mess. usually, if you do a search on the product you are looking for accessories for, it will pull up the actual product page. so i tried searching for the server specically. it returned some 7000+ results. and the first thing on the list, FUCKING SPEAKERS.

explain to me how the fuck SPEAKERS are at the top of the list when i'm searching for a SERVER.

finally, after getting annoyed and clicking and getting more annoyed and more clicking, i managed to trip over something that may start nudging me in the right direction.

we'll see in a moment, but right now, i don't like dell.

i want a site where i can enter a product, and the top link on the list is the actual product page to what i'm searching for. if i'm searching for a Dell PowerEdge 800, i want the first link (or in the top 5) to be for the product page of a Dell PowerEdge 800. NOT FUCKING SPEAKERS!

i'm not sure how my searching for a server is related to speakers, but whoever is in their marketing department that decided that the top 100 links are products that they are trying to sell and not the actual product infomation i'm looking for is a good idea, deserves to have a broken and splintered baseball bat shoved so far up their ass they are picking the crap out of their teeth with it.

what a bunch of fucking assclowns.

Happy Friday the 13th!

we're all going to have a bad day!

sev'teen days 'til it's gone, do da, do da...

Thursday, October 12, 2006

ok, this is just plain cool.

if that doesn't work, click here. (watch the volume, this is pretty loud)

here's a word for you

bowdlerized

i had no idea what it was, so i looked it up.

and to keep you people from freaking out about how i'm making you click the link, here you go.

bowd·ler·ize
tr.v. bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es

To expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.
To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

it's BOWED-ler-eyes, but the funky pronounciation characters didn't want to copy, so here it is.

here's what prompted my search for the word. (look at the alternate title)