Archives for November 2007

Reliable hosting, what a joke

I was browsing a website the early (www.swapz.co.uk) and after searching on a few pages I was presented with this rather lovely and amusing error message:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Unknown MySQL server host ‘ds95.reliablehosting.com’ (2) in /home/swapzco/public_html/init/class/db.class.php on line 33
Could not connect
Doh!

Those messages you love to see

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:49:03 GMT Standard Time:
[hpt374]: Array ‘RAID_5_0′ rebuilding completed.
After a day of sweating, this is exactly the email that I wanted to get. Thank god for raid 5 that’s all I can say

Syntax highlighter editor – web based!

I’m not really into web dev much (hence this blog ) however I saw this on a mailing list and thought some people might like to try it.
http://codepress.org/

Paper, scissors, stone

This has got to be one of the funniest things that I’ve seen on the web in ages (well apart from the Ripe video )

The day the routers died

Watched this video at the Ripe training I’ve been in on for the past two days and it is awesome – warning geeky sense of humour needed! 
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 Also check out the Ripe whois entry for the video (whois -h whois.ripe.net)

What has Southampton got to offer?

After being in a Ripe training day all day, David and I decided to see what Southampton had to offer in the ways of a meal and some refreshing beverages (non-alcoholic) of course. Having spent the best part of 45 minutes walking around the ‘City Centre’ it seemed quite apparent that the town didn’t have much [...]

Remote working

Well it’s the first time I’ve had my laptop that I’ve actually used it from a remote unsecure location for anything work related and in turn, needing a secure connection to do it. My own stuff isn’t important enough and I don’t do online banking if I’m using a wireless hotspot or anything.
However, I’ve been [...]