‘The UKbased Ministry of Sound told ABC radio today it had put forward a proposal to Ansett’s administrator to buy four jets.’ ‘”We’re going to be doing SydneyMelbourne to begin with where you fly from Sydney to Melbourne late in the evening, there will be DJs on board, special DJ decks will have been installed into where the business seats were,” Mr Mergler told ABC radio.’ Full article here.
As Rove would say, “What the?”.
On-line, adj.:
The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
“I’m not going fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit some camel in the butt.” — George W Bush
Imagine every web page you looked at cost you 1 cent. Would you pay 1 cent to view wonk.org? I wouldn’t, but check this out anyway.
I run a HTTPd on my FreeBSD box at home as a convenient way to serve up files I wish to share with people. Since there is no real ‘content’ on the site, you would expect the only visits to be from myself & my friends. This would be a bad assumption. Lets look at the data so far this month:
root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| wc -l 6184root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| grep -vw 404 | grep -vw 400 | wc -l 125root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| grep -vw 404 | grep -vw 400 | grep -v Slurp \| wc -l 23
23 legitimate accesses, 102 from Inktomi’s bot, and ~6k from NIMDA/CodeRed. Come on people in 210/8, get your act together!
Connect.com.au has stopped offering retail dialup. Not a surprising step for these guys who once claimed to be “the ISPs ISP”.
Infoworld concludes Windows XP is slower than Windows 2000.
The results of our benchmark tests indicate that Windows XP is significantly slower than Windows 2000, especially under heavy load. Unless investing in new hardware for demanding users is an option, companies should stick with Windows 2000.