Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Yes, it's a bit juvenile, but I had a sudden urge to know what was at the coolest IP address on the Internet: 69.69.69.69
wg@wg-laptop:~$ host 69.69.69.69
69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.
I shouldn't have asked :). It appears to be owned by "Embarq Services". Perhaps equally as cool is 42.42.42.42, but that ...
Posted in Humour, Internet | No Comments »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
For those of us early adopters (well, it's not so early any more...) who have jumped on the IPv6 train, Planet SysAdmin is now available via IPv6! Thanks go to SixXS for providing the tunnel, although it would have been nicer if my provider was able to give me native ...
Posted in IPv6, Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | No Comments »
Friday, January 4th, 2008
That's right. The newly elected Labor government has decided that they should protect children from pornography, violence, and hate material on the Internet by imposing mandatory filtering of Internet traffic at the ISP level. Such filtering would be based on a black list decided by ACMA bureaucrats (who don't yet ...
Posted in Censorship, Society, Internet, Rambling | No Comments »
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Well it's been a while since I updated, I guess I've been busy! But anyway, since my last update on Planet SysAdmin, here are the blogs that I've added to the aggregator:
Chris Siebenmann
Dilbert
Pantz.org
The Lone Sysadmin
The eternal fight between admins and computers
...
Posted in Humour, Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | No Comments »
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 »
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 »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
I have added the following SysAdmin Blogs to Planet SysAdmin in the last week or so:
AspiringSysAdmin.com
Miljan Karadzic
My SysAd Blog -- UNIX
RootPrompt
The Unix Blog
Within Reason
number 9
Thanks for all the recommendations. Please let me know if you know ...
Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | 1 Comment »
