Monthly Archives: February 2006

Xserved

In between grading exams I’ve also been configuring an Xserve for these people. It’s been pretty much smooth sailing. The only thing that worries me though is that both cores run damn hot under high load (48 hours of running … Continue reading

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Uwe Boll needs a career change

Seriously, the guy seems to specialise in crappy game to movie adaptations. His latest gems include Alone in the Dark and Bloodrayne, both of which get a whopping 2.2/10 on IMDB. Rock on! To make matters worse, he’s unleashing more … Continue reading

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Vote Pedro!

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Archives are up

One part of my blog related todo list’s been checked off: the extended live archives plugin’s installed and working. The css file didn’t even need that much tweaking, an extra bonus. In the site banner there’s two links called ‘show’ … Continue reading

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Up, down, erhm up, no, hang on, down

Finally, we’re back up again. This time Charybdis went *poof* and came back up with a corrupted file system, or rather, Grub got confused about where the root partition was. Of course this kind of thing has to happen on … Continue reading

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Blog tidbits

I’m adding a few changes, which most of you probably won’t even notice, to the blog. First off, I want to start using tags together with the existing categories (of which the latter have been cleaned up somewhat). The combination … Continue reading

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This gives me the flying shits

Look, when you’re waiting for the bus and it finally arrives make sure you have your ticket ready, m’kay? This morning we had a 10 minute delay thanks to some ‘tards who don’t seem to be able to use their … Continue reading

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Exams, that necessary evil

You might have noticed that, except for the occasional interface tweak, there’s not much happening on here. The reason? A pile of around 320 or so programming exams that I’ve been trying to tackle (with the help of a colleague). … Continue reading

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Best 'Four Things' out there

Looks like Matthew Good went for some non-conformist answers to the ‘Four Things’ meme that’s been floating around blogland the last couple of weeks. Oh, and his music kicks ass too, so there! Four places that I’ve resided: Up shit … Continue reading

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MacBook Pro arrives 28/2

Or 2/28 if you’re american. But anyway, no, I wasn’t kidding, I did in fact order one of these babies (dual core 1.67GHz/1GB ram). The confirmation mail from Apple just arrived in my mailbox saying they’ll ship it on or … Continue reading

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