Marietta Ohio, Then and Now
The Marietta Times website has put together a neat feature showing old photos from Marietta that change to a recent view of the same site when you move your mouse over the photo. The Marietta Then & Now site is a neat use of web technology to show how our environments have changed.
Monday June 23, 2003 · Permalink
Lunar Eclipse Photo Contest Winners
Here is an absolutely beautiful set of photographs from contest held by Luminous Landscape for the best photographs from the May 15th, 2003 lunar eclipse.
(Thanks 101-365)
Monday June 23, 2003 · Permalink
Sun still doesn't get Linux
Sun Microsystems is still in denial about the popularity of Linux in the corporate workplace. Internet Week reports remarks from a Sun Microsystems VP Robert Youngjohns at a Bear Stearns conference:
“Why do we think enthusiasm for Linux exists in the first place?”
“The enthusiasm isn’t about Linux, it’s about access to Intel and the ability to run Unix on what seems to be a cheaper platform.”
Go and read the article for yourself.
Thursday June 12, 2003 · Permalink
Gizmodo Flashes back to 1983
Gizmodo has a great flashback to the technology making the waves back in 1983.
Go and read about these newfangled cellphone things that have enough battery for 30 minutes of talk time and 8 hours of standby and sell for the incredibly low price of just $3,995.
Find out about the GRiD Compass 1101 laptop computer with an incredible 384K of memory and a built-in 1200 bps modem.
Monday June 9, 2003 · Permalink
AccordionGuy Reminded Me of My Radio Appearances
AccordionGuy’s notes about his appearance on Keith Larson’s radio show reminded me about the times I was part of the Radio PC Review show with some co-workers.
Twice in ‘99 a number of us appeared on the show to talk about Linux. We were all into Linux, but it still wasn’t the accepted technology that it is today. Both times we had an absolute blast talking about Linux stuff and taking some calls and giving away some CDs to help get others into it.
Then in early 2000 I was part of two hour live Linux Installfest online. There’s even a polaroid of that show. The picture is the lower left one, and I’m in the back behind “SETI Dave” and “The Linux Guy”. That show was a riot with us having a table full of PCs and running Linux installations and describing the steps on the air. I’d gotten hold of a copy of Caldera OpenLinux which came with an installer that let you play Tetris while it sucked data off the CD and onto the disk. Both the other guys had a great laugh at that. We also attempted to do an Linux vs NT installation race, but it never really got started well since NT didn’t like the hardware for some reason (it got partway through and hung up).
While the show has changed names (it’s called IT Matters now) it’s still on five days a week. I wonder what it would be like to go on and talk about Linux three years after the last show? Things have changed so much in that time. My employer is now allowing us to install Linux servers (I have two in mission critical areas right now :) and in most meetings where hardware upgrades are discussed it’s not uncommon to discuss movement of products to Linux since the Intel hardware has a better price to performance ratio than some other Unix hardware solutions.
Friday June 6, 2003 · Permalink
Linus on SCO v. IBM
From a ComputerWorld article:
“Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM’s other women. ... Fairly entertaining,” said Torvalds.
Wednesday June 4, 2003 · Permalink
Correctable Memory Errors in Sun Hardware
Notes from the PDF document Soft Memory Errors and Their Effect On SunFire Systems published April 2002.
There are three categories of memory errors, intermittent, persistent and sticky. Intermittent means that the second read of the data produced the right result. Persistent means the second read produced the same incorrect, but correctable result. Sticky means that the bit could not be changed to the correct value after the testing of the persistent error.
Sun recommends that memory experiencing any sticky errors or three or more persistent errors on the same DIMM be replaced.
Wednesday May 21, 2003 · Permalink
CD Burning on Linux from the Command Line
IBM’s DeveloperWorks site has a nice article on burning CDs on Linux that covers the command line usage and options necessary for making disks that can be read on Linux or other OS types. It even includes readable instructions on creating multisession CDs.
Friday April 25, 2003 · Permalink
More on Bad Web Robots
DiveIntoMark has an article with even more information about blocking spambots, spybots and other unwanted bots.
I’m not experiencing the kinds of bot behavior that he’s seeing, but I’ve noticed some odd stuff on a couple of the virtual domains I host. I’ll be looking into it further and seeing what of Mark’s suggestions to implement.
Wednesday February 26, 2003 · Permalink
Defeating Bad Web Robots with Apache
Lee Killough has an absolutely great page on tips and tricks for Apache that will help you defeat web robots that don’t respect your robots.txt file.
Seeing the different usages of mod_rewrite may also help me hide some of the cgi scripts I use behind other URLs that are shorter and easier to remember.
Thanks DiveIntoMark for the link.
Friday February 21, 2003 · Permalink