February 27, 2004General Slackware Netfinity Server Went shopping for a test/build machine last week and found a nice used IBM Netfinity server with 2 processors. Slightly underpowered, but […]
February 27, 2004General Mein Motorrad After about 3 weeks of it collecting dust in my house, I managed to drop my bike off at the repair shop […]
February 25, 2004General Nader Don’t Run Campaign With US elections looming, there’s a public outcry against Ralph Nader’s decision to run for president again. Some argue that he was […]
February 23, 2004General Thread Hijacking Got this from a discussion on Netiquettes on the TLUG mailing list. It should visualize Thread Hijacking for you if you’re used […]
February 20, 2004General Reverse Driving This Indian cabbie has been driving backwards for two years. Now he’s planning to drive to Pakistan in reverse to promote peace […]
February 19, 2004General Yahoo! Search According to this article, Yahoo! is dropping Google in favor of it’s own search engine. With Microsoft working on it’s own mechanism, […]
February 18, 2004General 10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond Mouth watering isn’t it? Though to get even a piece of this 1,500km wide gem, you’ll have to travel 50 light years […]
February 18, 2004General The Carrick Bend “…the nearest thing we have to the perfect bend. It is symmetrical, it is easy to tie, it does not slip easily […]
February 17, 2004General Learning Japanese Another hilarious look at the Japanese language and Japanese culture: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html