Being nerds, geeks, whatever you want to be called, we tend to drink a lot of coffee. Some people more than others. I tend to be in the category of 3-4 cups a day, since I’m sometimes pulling 18-19 hours at a time, coffee is a very good thing. I had heard about this really “Special” coffee on a number of television shows (Law and Order, CSI, etc). It was billed as the worlds best, and most expensive coffee....
Hey Everyone. Just wishing you a happy easter. Sorry there haven’t been many updates lately. Just been so damn busy this is kinda taking the back burner for now. In other news, I found this on youtube, and if you remember the muppets as a kid, it’s hella sad. I actually teared up watching this.. Jim H was incredible..
Today we’ll have a little lesson in how not to run a datacenter. I was going through my old images from my trip down to the datacenter of a company I used to work for and found these little gems. The first photo is clearly the best of them all. Yes ladies and gentlemen, that right there is a LIVE IN USE server (actually, it was one of the major SQL servers if I remember correctly) with a phone sitting INSIDE THE SERVER, and the cables interfering with the fans from running....
Seems someone has put together all the moans and groans that Racheal Ray has done during her show and put it out on the intarweb. Check it out here at the Racheal Ray Experiment.
Today my internet connection went down. So, as per usual, I went to my soekris machine, running m0n0wall and located the external interface, and went to renew/release. Upon releasing and renewing, It seemed the cable modem was given the IP of 192.168.1.11. So, I quickly thought “hmm” and opened up a browser. Then I tried to access http://192.168.1.11 but I was prompted with a username/password box, which I was not able to guess with about 5 attempts so I quickly gave up....