My Scribblings: September 2004 Archives

Spam!

By balaji on September 29, 2004 10:50 PM | 5 Comments

I got a promotion mailer today and the disclaimer had this note

You are receiving this email as information regarding our products and services. You may, at any time, choose not to receive email marketing literature / information about our products and services by [clicking here] to unsubscribe. We will delete your email address from our mailing list without charge.

Without charge, heh?

When I tried clicking the link providede to unsubscribe and enter my email address, it says

Please enter a valid Email address

I am going to email their customer support and see their response.

Somehow when I was here last time, I didnt enjoy the canteen food. Since then I have started cooking. Cooking is fun. And I have another friend who enjoys cooking too. We have tried Sambar, Pepper Rasam, Rava Dosai, Wheat Dosai, Palak, Fried Rice and Pulav. Today it is Vermicilli.

You feel happy when others compliment after tasting your food. And this entry has nothing to do with this post.

Smart thinking

By balaji on September 22, 2004 2:59 AM

From one of those forwards:

Slow but Happy

It's the 1970s, and this pilot fish writes the first online application for his company's mainframe. It's blazingly fast, but boss tells fish, "Put a loop in that does nothing 10,000 times before displaying the response screen." Why slow it down? fish asks. "Because as more applications go online, response time will get longer and longer, and the users will get more and more irritated," his boss tells him. "This way, we can just decrease the number of times the empty loop executes, keep response time constant and keep the users happy."

# uptime 4:11pm up 312 day(s), 23:06, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.02 # uptime 4:12pm up 312 day(s), 23:07, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.02