Archive for August, 2007
Sometimes… Linux confuses me
Some time yesterday night, I found out that my monkey wasn’t running. Apparently, diggers found this amusing, so my site was featured, for a fourth time this week, on the front page of digg, bringing this weeks unique visitor count to something over 250,000 (excluding the large number of people who couldn’t get through due to the server glitches).
In the meantime I’m still trying to install Linux on my latest project PC (an ancient pentium 1). So far, things are going mostly OK (except for a dead hard disk, vague serial mouse, and aforementioned monkey problem).
FYI: My aim is to find a linux distro that will run nicely on an old PC, in lieu of Microsoft software. Currently I’ve tried DSL, Mepis, and Delilinux, neither is quite there yet. DSL looks promising, but I have to resolve the hard disk glitches.
August 19th, 2007
So a server glitch (file permissions) meant that 99% of the traffic coming to this site over the past 48 hours was unable to get through. For the moment things are stable, though I’m still getting a lot of traffic.
Anyway… I really should get back to IT. My latest experiment is setting up a classic PC to run Linux.
August 17th, 2007
As of today evening I’m somewhat unable to log into skype. Are any of the local ISP’s blocking it? or are Skype experiencing any problems?
Anyone have any ideas?
Update: It appears Skype is down
August 16th, 2007
This site experienced a surge of traffic (more than 50,000 unique visitors) over the past 48 hours, as well as some downtime (especially yesterday), thankfully now things are returning to normal.
To all of you visiting the site, welcome, hope you enjoy the site, do take a moment to browse some of the content!
August 15th, 2007
I can’t remember school being this much fun for me…
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(Photo from Webpark.ru)
August 9th, 2007
Credit: Photo is by Chris Danals, National Science Foundation
About the photo (text from the Wikipedia link)
A full moon and 25 second exposure allowed sufficient light into this photo taken at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the long Antarctic night. The new station can be seen at far left, power plant in the center and the old mechanic’s garage in the lower right. Red lights are used outside during the winter darkness as their spectrum does not pollute the sky, allowing scientists to conduct astrophysical studies without artificial light interference. There is a background of green light. This is the Aurora Australis, which dances thorugh the sky virtually all the time during the long Antarctic night (winter).The photo’s surreal appearance makes the station look like a futuristic Mars Station.
You can read more about the Amundsen-Scott station or download a high res version from Wikipedia,
August 5th, 2007
