eBay is great. Especially if you need spare parts for old hardware. You can get them from everywhere. My last order came from japan. Thanks to package tracking services we are able to see, where our packages currently are. But have you ever thought of looking up the distance on a map? I’m doing it here for you […]
Month: July 2008
Cutting back WordPress
Since the last release of wordpress, I have had to look through the code again for getting rid of those unneeded killer features. One of them is called revisions. Instead of coding useless stuff, they should listen more to the community and what they need. But let’s get back to our topic and fire up an editor for […]
Nostalgia
I’ve never thought of having to install MS-DOS 6.22 again in my life. But today I had to – I even needed Windows 3.11 for Workgroups for getting some ancient box to work. The install started with three floppy disks, another one for the CDROM and nine for Windows. I was sitting there, DJing until the files were […]
If it’s not in the charts
I guess I’m fed up with the common commercial radio stations around here. Just got to rant about that now… I was driving in my car for quite some hours and I run out of CDs. So I turned on the local radio just as they announced, that you may write them an SMS or E-Mail regarding your […]
System Administrator Appreciation day
Today is one of my days – the System Administrator Appreciation day :)
Strange requests
I was analyzing some logfiles of my webserver during the last days and watched a huge number of strange hits coming from rather strange hosts: index.php?page=http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/path/to/file.txt What the heck is going on here? What does the URL do? Well – it’s there for purpose – so let’s fetch it. (URL above is cloaked for security reasons) A good […]