I’m glad I’m not a full time software tester. I’m getting very tired of testing log readers at work. For each reader, you do the same steps. When you are finished, you move on to the next reader and do it all over again. It’s really boring.
Boring, except when you catch a problem. I caught one yesterday. I started up the reader, checked it was running okay, then hit the Stop button to stop it so I could change the configuration. The reader did not stop (it actually did, but it never announced correctly that it had stopped). A co-worker and I made changes to all the readers for this very problem, and that’s the reason I am testing them all. Obviously, we missed one. So I fixed it and continued testing. A momentary blip in a boring job. 
The trend on TV nowadays is crap shows instead of quality, and shuffling shows around so you have to search for your favorites. Wednesday is now a complete write-off for anything interesting or even entertaining, along with Saturday and Sunday. If a show doesn’t have professionals to entertain us, it’s crap, so don’t tell me reality shows aren’t crap. This leaves me more time to read, though.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Red hat updates Enterprise Linux
- Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows
- Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight
- Browser Wars, the ‘Linux Killer’ and the Free Software Ditty
- Linux Alternatives to iTunes
- Is the Open Standards Alliance Betraying Open Source?
RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/SIIA/FCC
- Italy to Follow French 3 Strikes Model for P2P
- Sweden Considers Police Action Against File-Sharers
- Largest Danish ISP Blocks The Pirate Bay
- Epic Win: The Wonder Years
- Lawsuits to end in fight against music piracy
- Microsoft gets musical with DRM tracks on mobile
Stupid Patent Tricks, Copyright and Other IP Nonsense
- Will Apple Sue Palm Over the Pre?
- U.S. Patent Office Rejects All Twenty Claims of Subdomain Patent
- Tech to Obama: Think patent reform
- Get It Through Your Head, You Can’t Patent the Use of Human Intelligence
- E.D. Texas No Longer Patent Troll Friendly
Liberty and Security/Our Rights
- Supreme Court deals death blow to antiporn law
- Heartland Wakeup Call: Hacker Breaches Thrive
- NSA Spied on Journalists?
- Quicktime 7.6 fixes security flaws
- Microsoft slammed over security advice
- Heartland says it has closed security hole
- Understand and Avoid Malicious Code Attacks in Linux
Other News/Public Stupidity
- In Final Legal Act, Bush Appeals Spy Ruling
- PC sales slump to bite even Microsoft
- Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government
- How to move a boat without an engine, paddles or sails
- Does Microsoft even matter?
- Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the OS X Dock