The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 10 April 2007 / John / 2
See, this is just annoying. Why is it that certain types of people just aren’t happy unless they’re busy legislating? One of the nice things about blogs is that you take them as they find them. They’re not ever-so-nice reporters in sharp suits with elegantly styled hair reporting only the bits that make money, it’s
Ramblings / 9 April 2007 / John / 1
More on Microsoft’s half-arsed indexing technology. It still accounts for 80% of the bandwidth usage on my site. As a result, I’ve banned the entire search.live.com domain. Hopefully others will follow suit. Inflating peoples bandwidth bills just to try and be like google is just plain rude, if you ask me. So – those of
Ramblings / 6 April 2007 / John / 0
It’s a public holiday and I’m the only one in the department, so I’m taking the opportunity to indulge myself a little. It is Good Friday, after all, so only right that I should be listening to my favourite bit of music ever – Parsifal by Richard Wagner (Knap, natch). As an added bonus, Wagner’s
Ramblings / 26 March 2007 / John / 0
….I’m mucking about with templates – things may go briefly awry.
Ramblings / 19 March 2007 / John / 0
No way! Nelefa.org has a pointless forum! It’s so called because I have no need whatsoever of a forum, but it’s fun nonetheless and is something cool to play with on a cold Spring morning. It’s linked from up the top there, so feel free to pop over, sign up, and join the surging crowds
Ramblings / 18 March 2007 / John / 0
This is just shocking! I’m being accused of being a Microsofty from all quarters and it’s just plain wrong and evil! So, without further ado, the defence presents exhibit A: my mail and news programs. Ok, I’ll admit that SLRN is a bit of a cop-out, but it has some nice things that tin just
Ramblings / 18 March 2007 / John / 5
Apparently, our Red thinks my Desktop looks like Windoze. Anyone else agree? 🙂 He thinks I have a “Start Menu”. I think we all need to drop Mr Red a note to ask what that little menu on the top right of his Mac Desktop is for 😉
Ramblings / 17 March 2007 / John / 3
After years of running Gnome at home and KDE at work, I’ve finally done a switcheroo and changed my home desktop. With version 3.5.5 (what I’m running with Ubuntu Edgy), it’s finally getting to be rather a nice desktop environment. As it comes, it can be a bit sluggish at times, but turning down the
Game Diary, Ramblings / 16 March 2007 / John / 0
Just spotted this story on UK resistance – apparently, Game are so desperate to sell at least one PS3 on launch day that they’re, well, making things up. Read for yourself: Game’s mind-control experiments.
Ramblings / 16 March 2007 / John / 5
This is George, at work. Eight (count-em) 2.8GHz CPUs (not counting the three machines at the top), Forty Gigabytes of RAM, an 8 Gigabyte Solid State Disk (for the logs) and an insanely huge RAID-10 disk array at the bottom, attached via a dedicated fibre channel switch. All to run a database. On Windows. It’s