Archive For February 11th, 2004

Life After The Oil Crash

Life’s going to be pretty grim if this guy’s right. How to fix it? I dunno! Let “them” worry about it! I’ve got enough on my mind!

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Web serving on 2.4 and 2.6

Saw this on slashdot so probably everyone else has too.. Anyway, this comparison of the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels is interesting, if only to show that serving web pages under Linux 2.6 “more effectively used system resources and served 5 times more Web pages than the 2.4.18 kernel did.” Boss, can we upgrade now?

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Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Poltergeists

I need a spooky category.. Gerry Ryan has had a few calls from women saying their houses are haunted. I’ve an open mind about this and wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand at all. The first caller said that she saw a silver haired woman lying on the bed next to her one morning, she [...]

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More Photography Stuff

A Rebel in Paris and Backrounds are two articles I saw at the Photography Blog. They stand out because almost every other post on his blog is product announcements. Kinda pointless as I already have a camera I’m happy with (oh, and can’t afford to upgrade anyway!)

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Obscure Firefox References and Features

Justin lists some of the features of the new Firefox browser that may appear in the future.. Stealth mode: using specially malformed headers, Firefox will load your web pages and web servers will be unable to log your vists. My own favourite extension is the Digger extension. This allows you to dig down through a [...]

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