New Play MachineNew Play Machine
Update: Thanks to Sven Joachim and Andrew Pollock for informing me about /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp which exists to mount a tmpfs named overflow if /tmp is full at boot time. It appears[...]
Month: October 2009
Exetel StupidityExetel Stupidity
Anand Kumria has an ongoing dispute with Exetel, the latest is that a director of Exetel has libeled him in a blog comment [1]. Having public flame-wars with customers generally[...]
WordPress PluginsWordPress Plugins
I’ve just added the WordPress Minify [1] plugin to my blog. It’s purpose is to combine CSS and Javascript files and to optimise them for size and it’s based on[...]
Virtual Hosting FeaturesVirtual Hosting Features
I’ve just been setting up new virtual servers at Linode [1] and Slicehost [2]. I have previously written a review of both those services [3], based on that review (and[...]
Mobile Phones Are ComputersMobile Phones Are Computers
One thing I noticed when I got my new LG U990 Viewty [1] mobile phone is the way the core telephony functionality has suffered while features for web browsing etc[...]
Links October 2009Links October 2009
Garik Israelian gave an interesting TED talk about spectrography of stars and SETI [1]. He assumes that tectonic activity is a pre-requisite for the evolution of life (when discussing the[...]
TPG LiesTPG Lies
Shortly before 9AM this morning I discovered that the IP address for my mail server was not being routed, according to my logs the problem started shortly after midnight. It’s[...]
New Servers – a non-virtual CloudNew Servers – a non-virtual Cloud
NewServers.com [1] provides an interesting service. They have a cloud computing system that is roughly comparable to Amazon EC2, but for which all servers are physical machines (blade servers with[...]