Updates

Lately I've been working on some legacy code from a contractor. It's my job to update the security on this and increase performance where I can. It's taken me six weeks.

At least one person who worked on this at the contractor knew what they were doing, at least one person did not. I detect about 3 flavors of code.

Something I run into a lot is this:

If (Condition)
   Do A
   Do B
Else
   Do A
   Do C
Endif

Which is mostly harmless, but combined with all the other little irritations I've come to hate the anonymous programmer who came before me. So I will curse them with the strongest curse I know:

Anonymous Programmer, I wish that you will soon become competent, realize the error of you ways, and be forced to maintain all of your old code for the rest of your life.

Happy to report

I am happy to report that I am not the source of my own problems.

This doesn't seem to have reduced my problems any, as others seem intent on providing.

Then again, maybe this is the natural resistance one faces when moving forward.

Wait, does that mean that by moving forward, pushing against my boundaries, I'm still the source of my own problems?

ಠ_ಠ

Large Hard Drive Collider

At work I have various VMs that replicate servers.

Noob Explaination: A virtual machine (VM) is basically an emulated computer that runs on your normal, physical computer. Like when you emulate all those SNES games.

One of them lives on a USB hard drive (yes this works fine and is zippy). Anyway due to how VMware works a USB device is only mounted on one at a time.

What would happen if I mounted the USB hard drive that the VM was running on, to itself? Expecting something like the below image I googled for the answer.

What I actually got was this: