Spiders
Can’t remember how I found this, but it’s wonderfully funny. Enjoy… http://www.glumbert.com/media/spiders
Archive for February 2007
Weekend work
Big thanks to Gordon for coming out to Milngavie to reassemble the steering column of the TR6. I’d be absolutely lost if I tried, but he managed it as if it was second nature. Saturday was spent roaming the Wedding Fair with Charlotte. I’m convinced these people bathe or shower in perfume and makeup instead of applying it tastefully. The quantity of salesdroids was spectacular too… rivalled only by the Scottish Salesperson Conference, whenever and wherever that might be.
My Aunt and Uncle Lawson came out on Friday for dinner, and gave us a lovely engagement present. Those of you who come round for dinner will no doubt see our new crockery soon 
Thursday evening was spent at an aKademy local team meeting, trying to sort out what’s happening this month for the event in June.
I’ve been cutting back on my sleep, and I’m suffering for it now 
I feel as if I’ve been hit by a bus.
Linux & Active Directory
I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate… Continue reading ‘Linux & Active Directory’ »
Worlds Largest Drain
MrLithic alerted me to this blog post about the worlds largest drain hole. This is the kind of engineering I like. Machines or mechanisms that are just so big and powerful that it defies most normal thinking. Now… where’s my swimming kit
Star Trek Periodic Table
My Sunday evening trawl of the information supahhighway has turned up this little gem in the spoil. If you ever thought that chemistry was boring, then this might bring a little smile to your face.
Update – My mistake, the site doesn’t allow direct referrals. Instead, head over to the main page and view the picture from there.
Zap Bugs
A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a bug that is affecting Zaptel software and hardware, both on the bug tracker, and more recently on the Asterisk users mailing list. Maybe I’m going about it the wrong way, but absolutely nobody seems to be interested in what appears to be quite a critical bug. If anyone has any idea on what to do to cure it, then it would be greatly appreciated.
Transparent proxy
Just finished setting up a transparent proxy at home, to keep track of some visitors to my network. I have a Linux machine acting as a router, but it doesn’t have that much power, and a much more powerful server acting as the proxy server. For this reason, Step 6 of the howto was much more relevant. The only downside was that Step 4 is outdated, at least for Debian testing servers anyway. Instead of the following…
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
…you just need this…
http_port 3128 transparent
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Interesting video on what the Internet has now become. More than just a collection of static pages that it used to be. I wonder what the future will hold, will the semantic web go anywhere? Will machines be able to extract the information from this ‘Web 2.0′ as easily as they’re supposed to be able to extract information from a semantic web?
Recycling
Just been reading this article by Clive James, and it struck a chord with me. I don’t know why we have to implement everything so badly over here. Granted, other countries have their bad points too, but compared to what happens here, it’s as if this place is run by fools…
Whether or not my comment gets posted is anyones guess, but it’s here for the sake of it.
Why do we have so much of this nonsense? In Denmark, plastic bottles have a plastic deposit on them. You return the bottle to any stockist of that product, they scan it, take it away, and give you your deposit back. The same applies for tin cans. The system just reuses the delivery infrastructure already in place, and provides an economic incentive to regular man-on-the-street to recycle stuff. Over here we have crazy bin schedules, more wheelie bins than we know what to do with, and a council that doesn’t know how to apply the multi-bin-theory to flatted residences… clever stuff. Yet again it’s an example of Britain implementing some form of EU law, but implementing it badly.
Climbing Cats
I taught the cats how to climb the ladder to the loft. Initially they were a bit dubious about it, but now they’ll do it at a seconds notice. Just to get up to the big playground up above…
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