I have a large RAID5 array (3x80G) shared via NFS to allow access to photos and music from my other computers on my server. When copying a large number of files over to that system, I’m noticing a huge jump in load. I’m getting a load of 7.5 on the server right now, and I’m […]
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Oh man, the freaks out there scare me more than ever. Just saw this in my webserver logs: 65.217.74.253 – – [28/Jul/2003:11:09:02 -0700] “GET /blog/archives/2002/12/18/cats_in_heat.html HTTP/1.0” 200 39816 “http://search.yahoo.com/search? p=ways+for+cats+to+masturbate+you&ei=[…]” “Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)” (Edited so it doesn’t make the browser do that ugly horizontal scroll thing, but not to protect the IP of the
Foot_note found this page which has pictures of a bengal that looks a lot like Corny.
The sucky part about linking to images on other people sites is that while you do take their bandwidth, the image can change on you.
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On the same day as the fire (Friday, this is being finally taken down on Sunday night, well, Monday morning actually, about 1:30am), Firefly gave me a shout to say a FedEx had arrived for me. Read more for the full story (trying to keep the front page free of huge long gobs of news,
An Unexpected Gift Read Post »
First off, no, it wasn’t serious. I mean, it was serious, but everyone still has a place to live! Secondly, there is a lot of catching up to do, and lots of pictures to show, so I’ll try to split it up and make it as painless as possible. I can’t guarentee I’ll detail everything
A Fire at the Building Read Post »
D2R has many good thoughts on the media voyeurism that’s running rampant. It’s sad. Time to go live in a cave until the rest of the world is sane again.
Of maybe “why does MS Word suck so much” would be better. I’m creating a bunch of stuff at work and am working off a script given to me to put in articles and activities. In one activity (for middle school age kids) it’s a mnemonics page that explains what they are and then gives
Why Is HTML Conversion So Hard? Read Post »
Interesting article on firing an employee which was a good read (via kasia). I’ve luckily never had to do this, but I have been on the perpendicular to this. I say “perpendicuar” instead of “the other side” because I wasn’t the one being fired. No I was close enough to the bosses to know things
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