I'm back with another issue:
I was just trying to download a program that someone recommended for me to try and so I clicked the link to go the the website to read more about it. After reading about it, I click the download link and it brings me to the download site with all of the links to the different versions (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Linux). I click the windows link and it brings me to SourceForge... or did it. It brought up a blank white page so I figured it just wasn't done loading, so I waited... and waited... and waited. Until finally I gave up and thought... "huh... it must be a broken link." So then I say "Wait a minute, let's just search SourceForge to see if there is a different download link..... so I navigate to http://www.sourceforge.net. And guess what.... a blank white page!
This brings me to my final point: When people rely on just one download mirror (SourceForge in this case) and that mirror goes down, they could lose thousands of customers. HOWEVER, if they would've had a second mirror, maybe a small server (nothing as big as SourceForge), I (and whoever else wanted to download this program) would've been able to download it!
Why can't people just use common sense and predict that eventually their ONE server is going to go down? WHY?
-Brady
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Schedules
Okay, today I am going to talk about two types of people who frustrate me sometimes:
1) People who assume that your schedule is widely open whenever they want to do something:
Have you ever had those conversations when someone wants to do something with you and you are trying to find a date that supposedly works for both of you, and then this person finds a soon date that is open for them and gets right to saying "I'll see you then" or "I'll write it down" before they even ask you if it is open for you?
How about those last minute calls: "Hey I'm bored, will you go to a movie with me?"
"No, I'm busy, sorry.... maybe another time"
"PLEASE! I'm really bored, I want to do something!"
"WELL TOO BAD!"
I hate it when people do that!
2) People whose schedules don't fully revolve around me:
Okay, this one may sound like a joke just because it sort of contradicts the one above, but I am as serious about this as I was about the other one. When I am sitting at home all alone, bored to tears and I call someone; I want them to have something for me to do! I don't like it when people just answer the phone talk for a few seconds and then say they have to go.... that was a useless conversation.
Also, just as an example, the other day I was sitting at home, randomly browsing the internet because that is who I am, but sometimes that gets boring. So I walk outside and call my friend:
"ring ring.... ring ring.... ring ring: You have reached ***-**** we can't get to the phone right now"
"darn!"
So I call his cell:
"ring ring.... ring ring: Hi this is ****** I am in Alaska with my grandma right now, but please leave a message!"
so I think to myself: "what a jerk!"
-Brady
Computer|Nerd
1) People who assume that your schedule is widely open whenever they want to do something:
Have you ever had those conversations when someone wants to do something with you and you are trying to find a date that supposedly works for both of you, and then this person finds a soon date that is open for them and gets right to saying "I'll see you then" or "I'll write it down" before they even ask you if it is open for you?
How about those last minute calls: "Hey I'm bored, will you go to a movie with me?"
"No, I'm busy, sorry.... maybe another time"
"PLEASE! I'm really bored, I want to do something!"
"WELL TOO BAD!"
I hate it when people do that!
2) People whose schedules don't fully revolve around me:
Okay, this one may sound like a joke just because it sort of contradicts the one above, but I am as serious about this as I was about the other one. When I am sitting at home all alone, bored to tears and I call someone; I want them to have something for me to do! I don't like it when people just answer the phone talk for a few seconds and then say they have to go.... that was a useless conversation.
Also, just as an example, the other day I was sitting at home, randomly browsing the internet because that is who I am, but sometimes that gets boring. So I walk outside and call my friend:
"ring ring.... ring ring.... ring ring: You have reached ***-**** we can't get to the phone right now"
"darn!"
So I call his cell:
"ring ring.... ring ring: Hi this is ****** I am in Alaska with my grandma right now, but please leave a message!"
so I think to myself: "what a jerk!"
-Brady
Computer|Nerd
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