Reflective Reality 3
(1 paragraph version) Roughly speaking your typical geeks colo box uses roughly about 1Amp at 230volts – (1 cpu 1 disk 2Gb ram and a PSU thats a few years old) Thats about 2 tons of gold standard carbon offsetting you need to do to earn your self some Green Karma. Geeks all have “their [...]
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Pete Moore originally recorded “Asteroid”, the Pearl and Deane theme in the 70′s and it’s been my ringtone for about 5 years. It’s short and lively and no other bugger has it Having the Blackberry ring like a classic 2 bell phone was just not right so I went on the rampage to find Asteroid [...]
O2 are no longer stocking the Blackberry 8320 and now only stock the 8310. The difference? The former saves your bill by having wifi. Why don’t O2 want you using wifi? Oh gee I wonder. Living in a village with municipal wifi won’t be saving my 3G traffic bill if we upgrade directly with O2 [...]
One of the most popular things about firefox 3 is that the plugins provide so much useful extended functionality. This has got to be heavily responsible for it’s phenomenal success. I was reading firefox_answers on twitter earlier and it’s like a broken record. Plugins are to blame for everything apparently, yet there is no way [...]
I’ve got a box that runs a bunch of smoke pings 24×7 and I have to admit I look at it about once a week. However guilt got the better of me and I decided it was about time to upgrade Ubuntu from a recently up to date v6.06 LTS to v8.04 LTS and I [...]
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Having spent an interesting evening chatting with Dave from MailChannels, I’ve now spent well over a week traffic shaping SMTP for some 200k connections and it’s time for a few observations: The installer is very Solaris-a-like. I’m not a fan. I do remember a few far worse, but only a few Upgrades are somewhat clunky, [...]
I recently had a telephone conversation with a doctor that offered amongst other thing co-codamol on prescription. UK prescription charges are currently £7.10 – the same product can be bought in all pharmacies over the counter for under £2 and online for 49p. Why can’t they pop a post-it on the prescription for simple over [...]
Without a doubt this is the coolest advert I’ve seen this year so far! Just remember that bottled water is no good for the environment! Like all adverts that are better than half the re-runs it comes with a “how we did it” video too.
I love the idea of abusing the fact that spammers are in a hurry. Traffic Control checks all the geeky check-boxes of a SMTP proxy I should take a closer look at. So the first thing I do once I can netcat to the proxy and check it’s running is fire up a “tcpflow -c [...]
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Is Wogan going to quit after the political voting appeared to break his ethical bone? Whilst talking about Kevin Bishop his producer quitting, Sir Terry said: “He and I have to decide whether we want to do this again. Indeed, western european participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on [...]
