Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
[Insert IMHO disclaimer] This is quite possibly the worst reason for doing anything, ever:
(From the GNU su man page)
22.5.1 Why GNU su does not support the "wheel" group
(This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, ...
Posted in Security, GNU, Internet, Linux, Operating Systems, Rambling | 3 Comments »
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Take the number 142,857. Multiply it by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, as follows:
142,857 * 1
142,857 * 2
142,857 * 3
142,857 * 4
142,857 * 5
142,857 * 6
142,857 * 7
Well I thought it was neat anyway :)
Posted in Mathematics, Rambling | No Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
I've always found Internet traffic trends fascinating, especially when they're out of the "ordinary". One of the main sites I look after has a peak on Monday-Tuesday followed by a 50% reduction in traffic over the weekend. This changes when one of two events occur -- a Holiday/three-day-weekend, and over ...
Posted in Traffic, Web servers, Internet, Cacti/RRDTool, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I just stumbled across http://attainable.ws/, a web site which allows you to search for "dictionary word" domain names available for registration, which I think is a pretty neat tool. Someone needs to marry this with a thesaurus and it will be all-powerful!
Posted in Domains, Internet | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I'm not sure exactly why but it appears that Ubuntu hasn't yet included Pidgin (formerly GAIM) in their package repository just yet. I have been running Pidgin for a while on Ubuntu (version 2.0, installed from a .deb I found floating around online) but I've been itching to upgrade for ...
Posted in Software, Pidgin, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Linux, Operating Systems | No Comments »
