i hate the internet
i’m hanging out at lisa’s house, noodling around with this some stuff i’m working on with some of my friends it’s cool and it’s got me excited about doing tech stuff again using lighttpd ruby memcached sqllite and a bunch of other cool stuff anyway i’m setting up a development instance of lighttpd and i want to see if i’m doing anything with port 3000 on my dev box so i fire up firefox and type http://localhost:3000/ in the address window great server not found oh hey i think i’ll look at facebook oh hey that link to christopher walken’s twitters looks cool oh hey i think i’ll check my rss reader oh hey this article looks interesting and two hours later i haven’t accomplished a fucking thing
that’s why you should know your tools and what they do. firefox and its results are not the same. use a real network tool like netcat and read real books, bummer, beginnner. … or was it like dont send a child to do a man’s job. duh! port 3000. use netstat -an | grep 3000 see whois listening or use nc hotname 3000 to see who is listening. First, KNOW YOUR TOOLS. i did not want to put an exclamation mark there since it is not proper english.
Comment by peterv — March 16, 2009 @ 5:56 pm
you should rename this whole article as “Know your tools.”
notice i did not put “bummer” at the end.:-)
Comment by peterv — March 16, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
Actually, I have lighttpd running on the box with a different http based development projects running on many different ports. I could use nmap or netstat to see what is going on but that is really not the point of the post. The point is, that any time I open a browser I get distracted and waste a bunch of time.
Comment by John Murphy — March 17, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Here, this will solve your problem. http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/freedom/ Thank Tracy Newman. She’s the one that told me about it.
Comment by Gillette — April 1, 2009 @ 1:59 am
DUDE: the Internet hates you too. That’s why it f’ed up your night….
Comment by Jim — April 7, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
I don’t think the Internet hates you. It’s here to help you, to guide you, to give you hope for your future endeavors. Kind of like Jesus
The answers are there, all you have to do is ask the right questions. Then, within half a second, everything you could possibly want is spilling out right before your eyes. Instantly gratifying. Until you tap the modem the wrong way or open too many tabs because you didn’t take Ritalin.
Comment by Snoopy — June 6, 2009 @ 10:48 pm