Sysrc's tech blog http://sysrc.code4beer.org I'm busy - it's compiling... Sun, 20 May 2012 09:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Job definitions http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/29/job-definitions/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/29/job-definitions/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:33:53 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=185 A friend gave me a really funny link today with job defintions…so I don’t see why 9 women can’t deliver one baby in one month… :)

Wonderful definitions of designations:

1. Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.

2. Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.

3. Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.

4. Client is the one who doesn’t know why he wants a baby.

5. Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.

6. Resource Optimization Team thinks they don’t need a man or woman; they’ll produce a child with zero resources.

7. Documentation Team thinks they don’t care whether the child is delivered, they’ll just document 9 months.

8. Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby.

9. Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the Right baby.

10. HR is a person who thinks that a donkey can deliver a human baby if given 9 months.


]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/29/job-definitions/feed/ Carrier pigeon faster than e-mail! http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/16/carrier-pigeon-faster-than-e-mail/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/16/carrier-pigeon-faster-than-e-mail/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:07:13 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=172 No, it’s not the first faster than light pigeon. It’s just a very visual protest of a South African IT company that complains about the extremly bad and expensive Internet connection local ISPs offer.

They strapped a 4GB memory stick to a carrier’s pigeon leg and simultaneously started uploading the same ammount of data via their Internet connection…

The pigeon won at a distance…it delivered 4GB of data in two hours to a location 100 km away and the ADSL Internet transfer was at ONLY 4% ….




]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/16/carrier-pigeon-faster-than-e-mail/feed/ Rise from the dead my Acer Aspire One!!! http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/09/rise-from-the-dead-my-acer-aspire-one/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/09/rise-from-the-dead-my-acer-aspire-one/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:01:56 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=166 Tried to start my Acer Aspire One (AOA110) today… The screen would remain black although the power led was on…Tried removing the battery, stopping and starting the netbook multiple times…nothing..it was dead as real estate investor in the US in 2008.

Because I really needed to start the damn thing I googled to see what other brothers in sufferance existed. It seems what my little gadget had was more common than your average flue … the solution BIOS recovery… Didn’t sound ok because I hadn’t performed a BIOS update with a black screen before…

Acer had implemented a BIOS upgrade procedure without an operating system. What I had to do was

1. Download the latest BIOS for my device from http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/

2. Get a USB memory stick, format it to FAT

3. Unzip the BIOS downloaded and copied from DOS_FLASH directory on to the USB stick FLASHIT.EXE file and the *.fd file (in my case 3310.fd). The *.fd file must be renamed to ZG5IA32.FD.

4. Make sure your laptop is off and it has both battery and power cable plugged in.

5. Hold FN+ESC keys pressed and keep them pressed - press the power button to start the laptop.

6. Release Fn+Esc after a few seconds - you will see the power button. Press the power button once. The Acer will now initiate the BIOS flash, do not interrupt it under any circumstances!!!

7.After some time the power button will stop blinking and in 10 seconds or so netbook will reboot.

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/09/rise-from-the-dead-my-acer-aspire-one/feed/ Let’s do it! or how to clean a country in 1 day http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/07/lets-do-it-or-how-to-clean-a-country-in-1-day/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/07/lets-do-it-or-how-to-clean-a-country-in-1-day/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:38:51 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=164

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/07/lets-do-it-or-how-to-clean-a-country-in-1-day/feed/ Added an item on my wishlist http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/added-an-item-on-my-wishlist/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/added-an-item-on-my-wishlist/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:14:06 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=162

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/added-an-item-on-my-wishlist/feed/ gtalk image validation http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/gtalk-image-validation/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/gtalk-image-validation/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:12:43 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=160 My Google account got suspended because I stopped using it for a period…When I tried to log on to GTalk they warned me…Of course I had to prove that I wasn’t a machine … but as you can see… trouble in the image generation server…


I clicked OK without writing anything and it worked :) (probably the image description code is set to null by default and not being set by the image application it remained that way )

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/09/02/gtalk-image-validation/feed/ Best knock knock joke ever! http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/29/best-knock-knock-joke-ever/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/29/best-knock-knock-joke-ever/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:54:13 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=157

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/29/best-knock-knock-joke-ever/feed/ Programming pays off http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/21/programming-pays-off/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/21/programming-pays-off/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:59:23 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=155

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/21/programming-pays-off/feed/ The Yellow Smiley Face http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/20/the-yellow-smiley-face/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/20/the-yellow-smiley-face/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:56:39 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=151

]]> http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/20/the-yellow-smiley-face/feed/ Manele++ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/04/manele_plus_plus/ http://sysrc.code4beer.org/2009/08/04/manele_plus_plus/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:53:47 +0000 admin http://sysrc.code4beer.org/?p=138 It seems someone has gone to the trouble of writing code to destroy MP3 files who have the name of known “manele”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele) singers (mostly gypsies) . The virus (Win32.Worm.Delf.NFW) – a trojan can be downloaded via the DC networks and once executed it starts searching and deleting manele MP3 files .

I avoid the manele genre as much as I can (although they can be heard at neighborhood parties everywhere) but I bet the coder who programmed the trojan had to listen to more than a few manele and learned all the singers and their most popular songs … So…Although he may have deleted a few manele the total number of manele listeners has increased surely with ONE person….

If he sacrificed himself for the “general good” he may start working on a new version maybe he will learn more about MP3’s and insert 10 seconds of Beethoven in the middle of a Guta song … Imagine the shame on the face of the manele fan who is playing the latest song to his buddies or to a party … perhaps they will beat him to death with his pirated CD and thus the number of manele listeners may finally decrease..

UPDATE: I think it might work:

UPDATE 2 (it’s working!!!):

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