Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie

So, you bought a new HP All-In-One printer for you shiny new new MacBook Pro and you somehow never finished running the Setup Assistant and now you can’t get rid of it and it runs every time you login right? Happened to me and here is how to stop it from running on every login.

1. Quit the setup assistant if it is running.
2. Open /Library/Preferences/Hewlett-Packard Preferences/
3. Drag the com.hp.setupassistant preference to the trash.
4. Restart

I’m interested to see how many people find this post. This happened to me because I choose to hit the “Skip” button when the Setup Assistant ran because I was running short on time and didn’t want to setup the printer right then and there. Bad idea. The installer also doesn’t place the the installer in StartupItems or LoginItems which made it even harder to track down.

I was reading this fancy article Twitter, Rails, Hammers, and 11,000 Nails per Second and had to stop at the first sentence because of this word, kerfuffle. Say it with me; kerfuffle.

There’s an interesting kerfluffle going on regarding the scaling woes that Twitter.com is going through, especially since it’s built on Ruby On Rails.

Sure it was spelled wrong, but what is kerfuffle? It’s what you think it is.

The word kerfuffle is originally from the Scots, meaning disturbance, commotion, or fuss.

Now you know, and…

I’ve fallen victim to the command line history meme… I’m not sure this is a good representation of a normal day, I’ll have to compare it against Monday to see how it compares.

wesmaldonado:~/workspace/foo wesmaldonado$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head

73 rake

68 cd

57 sudo

39 svn

35 ls

24 mate

22 clear

19 mysqladmin

18 script/server

11 exit

The International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy, said in its annual report earlier this year that global pirate attacks rose 10 percent in 2007, marking the first increase in three years.

Pirates seize French luxury liner, 30 aboard; military mobilizing

I am in Palm Beach, FL staying at the Bradley Park Hotel for my best friends’ bachelor party. We were eating lunch yesterday at Charley’s Crab talking about pirate attacks and I spotted this article today… beware of pirates.

There’s just something about limiting yourself to one a day that creates something special. You don’t want to waste the opportunity on something average, so you carefully select the one thing you are gong to showcase or possibly create. And when viewed over time, it’s way more than that. It’s a timeline to your life.

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/one-a-day.html

The source talks about how companies facing avalanches of data (and the bills that come with it) changed their strategy to from MANY-per-DAY to ONE-per-DAY and their continuing survival in their markets. Two things stood out in the selected quote:

You don’t want to waste the opportunity on something average

Are you doing something average? If so, why? How can you change it?

…over time, it’s way more than that. It’s a timeline to your life.

Do you want the timeline of your life to be average? Office space offers one perspective:

Peter Gibbons: What if we’re still doin’ this when we’re 50?

Samir: It would be nice to have that kind of job security.

Remember, you can do anything, anything at all. The only limit is yourself!