You often read about failing in a startup and that founders who fail should start again and that failing isn't bad, etc... also you often hear about "pivoting".

This certain paragraph I love:
Have the courage to fail
Failure is a part of anything in life, but having the courage to face it head on is what makes you stronger. We hear so much talk about "it's okay to fail", but I don't think there's enough clarification. You shouldn't let your startup as a whole fail, that's not something you should easily let happen. Startups are really a compilation of many small instances of victories and failures. It's embracing those small instances of failures that will let you learn and adapt better. Think of embracing failure as the entrepreneurial equivalent of an immune system. By embracing failure, you learn what went wrong, what's bad, and how to prevent it from happening again. You build up a resistance to that specific instance of failure.

found http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/29878/How-To-Become-Legendary-23-Things-Michael-Jordan-Taught-Me-About-Entrepreneurship.aspx

I hate this:


...skype calling
...connection established

A: hello?
...
A: hello, do you hear me?
--------
B: hello?
...
I can hear you but do you hear me?
---------
A: hello?
I can hear you but do you hear me?
------
A: please turn on your microphone!
....
B: please turn off your speakers!
....
etc. etc.
...
A: uh, already 4pm, how fast an hour can go by. I have to close the telco. cya.
B: ah, now it works.
repeat until oblivion....


Aeons of human time are spent establishing a skype connection these days. Probably more time than spent on the toilet.

we need a kind of social poem, , dirty limerick or other ritus which socially works to establish a skype audio telco connection.
something like:

A: knock knock?
B: who's there?
A: your skype connection!
B: speakers turned off, microphone on, lets go, my prom!

or:
"I once knew a man called Enis,
who couldn't tell speakers from a ..."
(Crusty the Clown's short Limerick adapted)

but with business people its always tricky to establish proper rites. Any ideas?

as old Chuck-Norris-Jokes fan and true follower (I even have the book on display in our toilet) I am happy that finally the positive effect of Chuck Norris can be scientifically measured:

Chuck Norris improves iPhone4 reception! Click on HD and fullscreen to see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOqx7HCwZI8

Weird errors when copying files? Do svn commits not work anymore? "Unable to move file"? I am using Windows 7 and NTFS, and my filesystem is quite weird. I copied my files from another windows machine using cygwin and rsync and this (-a) tried to preserve as much security details as possible. In the end, it fucked up my NTFS permissions in most folders with permissions for some {9898234234-234234234-23423432} users or "none".

Anyway, there are plenty of ways how you can fuck up Windows file permissions. All I wished was my folders to NOT have any permissions BUT the inherited permissions from the parent folder. Btw, this is where ext2 really sucks for me, that you can't have inheritance in the user:group and access rights. I often wished that when setting up shared folders for samba. I wanted to reset the permissions to the default access rights any folder in my Windows documents directory has. Looking at the zillions-of-popup-windows-on-top-of-each-other-unintuitive-user-interface to change file permissions, I googled for help. And, luckily, found the command line to reset windows NTFS file permissions of a folder to that of the parent folder:

icacls your_bad_folder /reset /t

use this command inside the parent-folder, the your_bad_folder is the folder giving you trouble.

Last week a mail came through the NEPOMUK mailinglist, positive feedback. I am happy to copy it here - because it programmers like the KDE guys appreciate positive feedback, usually only angry people bother writing mails:
I've been playing around with Nepomuk and his cousins since the early
days. Posted to forums about setting up virtuoso when it was
introduced. I just wanted to make everything KDE to work properly; it
wasn't like there was an major, urgent need for search.

Today I went looking for a file using search in Dolphin. Things have
come a long way with search. Fast and accurate. I found what I was
looking for with ease.

Thank you all so much for what you've contributed.

(p.s.: I don't copy the name of the submitter, as I don't know if he would appreciate it. If you are curious, check the mail archives)