Author: Portfolioso
This Skype Outage is Full Of Shit
We use Skype in the office to communicate, and let me tell you that Skype’s official answer is a bunch of nonsense. Here’s their explanation on their official blog, and I don’t buy it one bit.
Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep things up and running. Some of these computers are what we call ‘supernodes’ – they act a bit like phone directories for Skype. If you want to talk to someone, and your Skype app can’t find them immediately (for example, because they’re connecting from a different location or from a different device) your computer or phone will first try to find a supernode to figure out how to reach them.
Under normal circumstances, there are a large number of supernodes available. Unfortunately, today, many of them were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype. As Skype relies on being able to maintain contact with supernodes, it may appear offline for some of you.
Bunch of horse shit. How does a peer to peer network go offline? As one of my coworkers said – it’s a conspiracy. It’s deliberate sabotage because the government cannot monitor Skype communication under it’s Nazi Freedom of Information Act (which can pretty much spy on anyone without any reasonable cause).
Cablevision Making No Sense Yet Again
Please give me a valid reason for moving NY1 to channel 8? Seriously? It’s called NY1 for a reason. It’s been on channel 1 since 1994. What is the meaning of this!
Seriously, some engineer is sitting over at Cablevision just scheming up ways to fuck with people. “Muhahaah I’ll show them! We’ll move channel 1 to channel 8!” Who plans these things?
I can’t deal with this company anymore, and I’m not even a Cablevision customer!
OMG More Severe Weather Alerts (Not really)
I go on weather.com to check some weather and see a severe alert red banner across the top. Hmm, are we due for snow? Nope!
So I look outside and it’s clear and cold. What’s the severe weather? The full moon! Are you shitting me? The full moon? The fuck do you think I am, a werewolf? Seriously though? The full moon will cause tides to flood us all. NOT. I’m like 10 miles inland anyway – this doesn’t even apply. This is almost as bad as that time they issued a sever alert about a light drizzle. F’in weather channel.
Good. Let them be higher.
PS – Happy winter, bitches. Winter is the shit because it’s cold and I like cold.
Request Granted
K blogged about it. Happy?
PS – Mozilla, get your shit together. Instead of filming fuckin animals, how about Google Chrome is pissing on your sorry ass in the performance department. Might want to fix up that javascript engine, fools. Seriously. You see Google Chrome 8? Thing is ballin. You start it and it pops up instantly. It’s like 8 times faster than 3.6 in speed tests, it’s still faster than Firefox 4 beta. Oh and they’re on version 8 already… Jeez.
This is why Google’s better. They have a bunch of people getting paid holiday bonuses, creating good products. Mozilla’s over there picking up fire fox shit in cages.
Angry Birds Pissed Me off Tonight
December 23, 2010
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Portfolioso
I have a daily routine of playing Angry Birds on the train home from work. My goal is to beat at least one level per train ride home OR at least beat one high score/ obtain more stars. I’ve only failed one other time but today was the second. I couldn’t beat the damn level in my 34 minute ride home, and it was pissing me off. Finally beat it, but it sucked.
This is a Bitch Ass Level