My rants about everything

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So, many guys have asked me why I like to run real OSes on my production
servers, instead of some flavor of Linux.

Earlier today I did some reading in the iptables.c file, which manages a crucial part
of every important server’s software, namely the firewall. And in shock I found this
comment:

 /* If you listen carefully, you can
    actually hear this code suck. */

Now if this isn’t a reason to be scared I don’t know, but at least you know
why I like FBSD and SunOS

*work in progress.

Earlier today I read a thread at my school class’ forum where one guy
posted a thread where he said that religion is the root of all evil.
Needless to say, that created a lot of fuss, like it always have done.
I’ll try to steer clear of the whole religious or not debate here, but
rather comment on the statements which I read.

But first thing first, I’m not quite sure how to describe myself
religiously. I don’t believe there is a god out there, but seeing how
I’ve been wrong before ( Had to check my records ), I might be wrong
about this one too. I kinda guess that makes me an agnostic. From my
point of view, the statistical probability that there’s no god out there
is just as high that there is one. For the non math guys and girls out
there, flip a coin. It’s 50% chance it lands on the tail, but it’s also
50% it doesn’t. Well, I know that’s a bad mental picture, but I’ll try
to get the rest right.

Now.. Whenever I hear an atheist talk their first point is:

When you believe in God, you’re also saying that every other religion is
wrong.

Now, I’ll try to point out the flaw in their logic here. Remember that the
atheist belives that no God exists right? *mhm* +++

Now the more scholarly atheist tells us that there can’t exist God since
you haven’t proved him. I don’t know how much you know about scientific
methods, but you don’t prove that something works. It’s up to the
disbeliever to disprove your thesis, and for each failed attack your
thesis grows stronger. Seeing how they’re trying to bring science into
a matter of personal faith, it should be up to them to disprove the existence of
your given god.

Another point people brings up is that there’s nothing that have
started as much wars as religion. Here I find it hard to accept that
it’s the religions fault that the war started. Not everybody that
believes in god X have attacked people of faith Y. It seems to me that
wars have been started under the cover of religion, but it’s never the
sole reason.
I know I’m out on thin ice here now, but please bear with me. Most wars
have been started for political reasons, but fought under the banner of
religion. Eradicating blasphemous people also have the nice side
effect of gaining their land. Having said so, I don’t think that the
current situation in the middle-east is so heated because one part are
Jews and the other part Muslims. If the one part manage to kill of the
other they have the nice benefit of gaining their land, which to me seems
like the real reason why their fighting.

+++

Well, my main point here, let people believe whatever they want.. As long
as they don’t bother you about it.
My mom belives in me, and I don’t want you to take that away from her.

I presented our new web-site at the Abakus General Assembly today.
For those of you that want to check out what I’ve done the last 6 months
you call all check out the site here

Now, some words about the presentation. A nice combination of nerves, lack of sugar and no coffee made me speed the presentation up tenfolds.
All in all Webkom delivered, as usual, splendid work. Kudos to P.O and his cool
little console based application that picked a random attendee from the event.

Now that we’ve made the first major milestone, we’re going back to the drawing board.
I have a feeling that the major groundwork have been done and it’s improving our major components that’s left.

As usual, I would like to send my apologies to the English speaking part of the world for ruining their language.

So, I’ve had my first serious round with Spring-MVC/Tomcat, going through the tutorial over at
springframework.og

Now spring seems like a excellent choice for our Abakus project, but I would like the guys
that wrote the tutorial to go through it and check for errors. They have some small but _very_
annoying ones in their JUnit stuff. Important notes to everyone that goes through it, change
the JUnit target from:

to:

This will save you lots of problems if you have a directory named test somewhere else
in the project you’re working on. ( and test is not all that uncommon in a Dev-environment ).

I would also point a finger at JUnit for trying to run regular *.class files as Unit tests.
How hard could it be to do a instanceof before you load the class file as a test?

Well, next step would be to try integrate hibernate into this thing..


See you later

Kenneth