KDE 4 released. That’s how I started reading the discussion thread on Slashdot …
Year: 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Watched “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in the movies yesterday. Excellent film!
First of all, an original story. Secondly, interesting historical recreaction and mix of times from beginning of the last century to these days. Thirdly, impressive technically – acting, make-up, camera work, special effects, etc. Fourthly, the film is both entertaining, as well as philosophical.
And if that all sounds like way too perfect, maybe it is. However there were a few things that could have done better. I thought that the film was a bit too long, and that the ending was somewhat unrealistic – which is fine, but just doesn’t fit the rest of the film.
Overall, an excellent experience. Much recommended. 5 stars.
Role Models
The other day I went to see “Role Models” – yet another cliche comedy, something that we all have seen before in a few other incarnations. However I still liked it. Bright characters, especially both kids playing the main roles and a nice way of mixing middle ages with modern times through role playing games – helped to enjoy it quite a bit.
Overall, a 4 stars.
Fixing advanced search performance in RT3
It’s been bugging me for a while now that advanced search is extremely slow in our RT3. I thought it was something related to the famous Perl bug, but apparently it wasn’t. Then I was I waiting for Fedora 10 to come out, so that we’d upgrade our RT3 installation to version 3.8. And that didn’t solve the problem either. Finally, we got bored and annoyed enough by this problem to actually do soemthing about it. The solution was, as often, just a Google search away. Here is the quote from this discussion:
Faulty rights on a specific queue caused the owner list to be quite long, which RT didn’t like. (By mistake someone had given the own ticket right on the queue to all unprivileged users)
I went through all the queues to check the rights, and there it was – a test queue had “Own Ticket” assigned to “Everyone”. Immediately, after remove this access levels things got back to normal.
Corporate slavery
I’ve heard an excellent phrase today – “corporate slavery“. The moment I read, it made all the sense in the world. A brief and clear description of something, straight to the point. Here is how I heard it on Twitter:
Corporate slavery begins Thursday
But aparently the term is in use for a few years. Here is an excellent photo set on Flickr. And here is a gaping void back of a business card.
Perfect.