They’re powering-off the lab at the weekend, but having achieved 365.2422+ days of uptime, I felt that that our firewall’s achievement was worth recording: fox $ uname -a SunOS fox 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine fox $ uptime 3:20pm up 365 day(s), 4 hr(s), 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.05 …I’ve seen higher, [...]
[emilioscotto.com] When Emilio Scotto (Argentina) was nine years old, he told his mother, tomorrow, I am going to travel around the world. She laughed, and replied, tomorrow, you are going to school, but from that day on, he set his mind on wandering the planet, he bought atlases and maps and was certain that one [...]
Here’s a silliness that I’ve meant to publish/collate for some time; a lot of webservers – post installation – never get their favicon.ico file updated; from my perspective this manifests itself as visiting a (usually commercial) URL and being surprised to see a small Sun Microsystems logo pop-up in the URL bar of my browser [...]
A Somerset chef who was bitten twice by a highly-venemous Brazilian spider was saved thanks to a snap he took of the beast on his mobile phone, the Times reports. Matthew Stevens, 23, disturbed the Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria fera) which had stowed away in a crate of bananas and found its way to the [...]
There exists a town in Germany named Poing – and I know someone who lives there.