Tue, 17 Apr 2007
The Great IPv6 Experiment
I don't normally write short posts with a single link but the The Great IPv6 Experiment amused
me. In an attempt to crack the chicken and the egg adoption problem they have put up
an IPv6 only website full of porn.
They say porn pushes technical innovation. We'll see. Although probably not until the videos are over.
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Posted: 2007/04/17 22:11 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Sunshine - Short Movie Review
I wanted to like Sunshine, I really did. A
new sci-fi film by the writer and directors of 28 Days Later (a very
entertaining film) should have been enough to keep me going until
Spider-Man 3 is released. Instead it was a seriously dull and
predictable two hours.
The sun is going out (hip hip hip hurray?) so a small group of scientists are sent to detonate a bomb that'll kick start it. They don't make it. So we send a second batch; "Are you the saviour of the human race?" "No, I'm the second choice". The film starts off mid-trip and quickly goes downhill. The psych officer is obvious a fruit loop, the crew are sloppy as hell, the twists are predictable, the on board security system is nearly as comprehensive as an unpatched Windows 3.1 machine and Rose Byrne has An Accent; we're just not sure where it was supposed to be from.
The film starts out with some interesting psychological ideas and quickly becomes a very dull and done before space slasher. This film left me cold (haha) 2/10 - visually impressive but boring.
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Posted: 2007/04/17 21:44 | /movies | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
No one likes a whinger - The systems fight back
After my little
whine I logged in to do my last checks for the evening to discover that
one of our webservers had died due to a hard drive going bang, our
production environment Nagios box had lost one of its network
connections and a chunk of our SAN kit was complaining about power
issues. Turns out that most of these were due to a power surge that
killed a network switch and three of the racks power strips. On the very
plus side no one outside of the systems team noticed. Resilience is a
wonderful thing when you get it right.
Woke up this morning, checked the Nagioses Nagii and found
out that one of our other products database servers had gone boom (my
fellow sysadmins were fixing that one) and the fail over had mostly worked.
No interesting logs, no hardware problems and a three hour gap in syslog
(and only syslog) to help explain the outage.
What have I learned? That the production servers read my blog. And they hate me.
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Posted: 2007/04/17 21:32 | /sysadmin | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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