The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 27 January 2009 / John / 0
Here’s an annoying thing. I have this box which is used as a development database by one of our dev teams. It’s a lightweight little thing – an HP ML110 quad-core jobbie with a couple of 500GB SATA drives configured as RAID1 using software RAID under CentOS Linux. The thing runs Oracle9i in 4GB of
Ramblings / 22 January 2009 / John / 0
Just a quick post while I’m waiting for a CD to burn. Here’s the thing: back in, ohhh, 1994 or 1995 – I don’t recall exactly when, but the first build of Slackware Linux had just been released – I had this idea that, as I was fortunate enough to have dial-back internet access from
Ramblings / 20 January 2009 / John / 0
A brief google appears to indicate that no one seems to have taken the time to translate any of the works of William Shakespeare into the dialect of Neds. This is a crime. If only I had the time or energy to put it right.
Ramblings / 16 January 2009 / John / 0
I wonder if using a garish and hideously bright wordpress theme could consitute an actual act of assult. See, I like this one – I munged it many years ago when the intertubes were less slick that they are now, and it reminded me (at the time) of serial consoles, blurry crt displays and nice
Ramblings / 31 December 2008 / John / 2
I’m taking a leaf out of RedSmartie’s book here and doing a quick run down. 2008, all in all, his been pretty grim. So many things that were fine before seem to be irrepairably broken and as the months went by I just seem to have lost the energy or will to try and fix
Ramblings / 30 December 2008 / John / 0
Clearly, I lose at blog updating. It’s the whole Christmas thing that causes it. Rushing about, worrying, not getting any sleep, worrying some more, and then – finally – the long soulless purgatory that is January. Still, the new build of WordPress is very nice – the dash is just ACE. So it’s not all
Ramblings / 16 December 2008 / John / 0
Brr! It’s a bit chilly out! -4 last night, apparently. So, an icy foggy drive into work followed by hanging over the radiator gossiping and drinking giant mugs of coffee was required. Wandered down to the harbour at lunchtime – the yachts which have been left in the water have iced riggings and look very
Ramblings / 30 November 2008 / John / 1
It’s -3.5 degrees outside (that’s Celsius, for those heathens who use the ‘F’ system). Which is chilly, but nice. It was about the same temperature yesterday as well, which made marching along Linlithgow High Street while playing a tuba interesting. Still, it was nice and christmassy. And cold. Oh so very cold.