Archive for May, 2007
Internet falters after 500 tonnes of underwater fibre-optic cable stolen
May 30th
The Internet connections around Japan have been faltering as of late. With the recent earthquake in Taiwan that happened just after last Christmas slowing all of the connections. Another problem has taken its place as thieves try to make off with underwater fibre-optic cable. More can be read here on this link.
Yet another interesting way to learn English
May 30th
For all Japanese people out there, here is an English lesson that you might find less than helpful. (But funny, and maybe better to not watch at the office or at least with headphones)
はいはい、ワンポイント英会話・・・誰か作ったかな。多分会社以外で見れば良いと思う。面白いけど
Hamasaki Ayumi then and now. 浜崎あゆみ前と現在はちょっと違うな～
May 21st
I was going through a bunch of files on my harddisk seeing if there was anything that I needed to delete and came across some old pictures that I downloaded from somewhere I don’t remember anymore now. But hey, I’m glad I saved them because now I can share it with you.
As we all know, Hamasaki Ayumi is a very famous singer in Japan. But she wasn’t always like that. Here are a few pictures of what she looked like before she made it as a singer.
現在のあゆと元あゆはちょっと違うですね。私のハードディスクでゴミなファイルを探してたけどこれ見つけた。どこで・・・いつか・・・覚えてないけど消してなくてよかったな？ここで見せてあげる。 浜崎あゆみをご覧に下さい ↓元前
Well, those are all the before pictures. Here is a transitional one:
変わり中・・・
可愛いですね～～
ん～最初と比べれたら、全然ちゃうだけどカッコイイかな・・？
Intel Intros 3-Series Chipsets with FSB1333 and DDR3
May 21st
Tom’s Hardware Guide just came out with an article today that talks about the new ICH9 chipsets that will be coming out from Intel in the next few months. Overall, the article looks really good, and shows that the new chipset is quite fast. Even with minor tweaking they were able to clock the FSB up to 1900Mhz with no problem. Wow is that fast. I’m still here with my DDR-400 system chugging along and I thought that was reasonably fast. Looks like I might have to wait and see what happens here, especially when AMD brings out their quad-core systems and see which one stacks up better. My setup here needs another server soon though… Intel and AMD need to hurry up with these so the prices on the current things available can drop faster for me to buy!
Japan Wants to go Opensource
May 21st
The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are lining up to help make this happen.
Japanese MAGLEV Train
May 21st
Wow, this is fast. If you forward to about 5 minutes into the video you can see the good part where the train wooshes by and also listen to the cool sound that it makes as well. The max this train gets in the video I can see is 500km/h, but apparently it can top out at 512km/h. But when you’re traveling that fast, who cares about the other 12km/h?
Seriously, what self-respecting IT admin would believe this?
May 21st
Current Mood:
Alarmed
Oh my, they did it again!!! Microsoft is out and about again to start bashing on Linux. Here ala this image:
The website goes on to talk about vendors that switched to/use Windows server in their operating environments. And then also the “facts” on why Windows server should be your choice for a server OS. For me, I suppose that I *must* get it that way I can spend thousands of dollars on an OS that hogs so much resources, I need to get a new computer to support it, and then again more money and resources for it as well. The only good thing might be the Active Directory support, but there are other ways around that as well. LDAP and the sort. I hope the person in the stock photo got paid a lot to have his picture put next to that text.
Oh and I know how to answer their question as well:
“Why do companies that try Linux switch back to Windows server?”
The answer is, because the company hired some person who they thought were supposed to know about computers because they seemed old and mature on the outside, rather than hiring a young person who might be suspiciously too calm for what the job requires. So, instead of hiring someone with knowledge and skill they hire someone with the minimum amount of capacity and knowledge to be able to outsource this work to someone who prefers Windows server, because they can then outsource that work to someone else and so on. I mean that graphical manual to tell me how to add a user to my AD domain controller is so important. Without it I would be lost…. mmm… LOST, only three more days or so. But that is another topic.
Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency
May 21st
Well, the title says it all. Apparently according to the article, it says:
The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. The directive released on May 9th, 2007 has gone almost unnoticed by the mainstream and alternative media. This is understandable considering the huge Ron Paul and immigration news but this story is equally as huge. In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency” the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency.
It then goes on to talk about what this so called “Catastrophic Emergency” is.
“Catastrophic Emergency” means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.
Barrels of fun. You can read the rest of the article here.
Are you busy?
May 21st
Don’t want to be bothered or disturbed? Perhaps this site can help you if someone doesn’t get the message that you can’t be bothered with their IM’s right now.
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