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And I thought this thing was fast? Fired up the iBook G4 and am currently composing on it. At 1.2 Ghz 1.25 GB RAM it isn't top of the line anymore. But it does update to OSX 10.5.8. I forget how long this will get security updates. The web experience will probably degrade first because already I need to go back to Firefox 3.6. Flash, ha! Flash sucks CPU even on current generation. Maybe an early 10 version, but Adobe is dropping it. Chrome never even had a ppc version. Maybe Camino will be updated longer.

More and more sites trying IPv6, awesome. I don't on a day to day basis though. My network has been capable for doing so for a long time but I have no native support from the ISP. Oh well.

Huh. For some reason my old Surfboard connected to Charter decided to do this for a while:

1970-01-01 00:00:11 3-Critical R002.0 No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out (US 1)
1970-01-01 00:00:04 6-Notice M571.1 Ethernet link up - ready to pass packets
1970-01-01 00:02:23 6-Notice M573.0 Modem Is Shutting Down and Rebooting...
1970-01-01 00:02:23 3-Critical R004.0 Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance o
1970-01-01 00:01:50 3-Critical R005.0 Started Unicast Maintenance Ranging - No Response received - T3 time-out

Apparently London Heatherow is running with one runway... yikes. I like snow, but this may have thrown a snag in some travel plans.

Today is 2010/10/10. At 10:10 today that's a lot of tens.

Also as I was informed 101010 is 42 in binary. Which is kinda cool.

And that Ubuntu releases today. Good for them, I may even try it out.

As a side note I submit that the practice in the USA of MM/DD/YY date formats is rather silly. It doesn't even collate easily.

Hooray. No longer legal to chuck electronics in the trash in WI. We need to save resources and not dump toxic pollutants everywhere. Fortunately Best Buy in particular will take some items off my hands for free. I tend to go there anyway. The bins in front that take small items like ink cartridges and cell phones are intriguing.

http://www.veronapress.com/print.asp?SectionID=2&SubsectionID=2&ArticleID=2883

Currently I have 4kVA of battery backup across 3 units. It's pretty impressive actually but the displays say run time is about 15 minutes. That is under pretty heavy load though so even if I'm playing a game it will last a while. The lights will go out except the glow from the monitor.

There is a warning on them that the output is not sinusoidal although it hasn't really seemed to matter.

Back online. The old server in the ancient HP Vectra is offline, and I can't really maintain it from hundreds of miles away. But! I got a VPS, from Linode. Do it yourself, here's the root prompt? Yes please. Dumped my mysql backup on it, drupal6 CentOS package, and restored the theme. Longest part was actually making the URLs look pretty again.

Wow it's been a long time since my last update. Suffice it to say that I'm now in Madison. Well, not in Madison now, home for the holidays. But my place is now in south central cheesehead land. I still like the Vikings though, and what do you know they might have a chance with Favre tossing the ball we'll see. I was much amused to see a store selling shirts in WI "Temporary Vikings Fan" with #4. Ha.

Why does unsubscribing from some mailing lists and offers and crap take up to 10 days? Surely in this modern age it takes only a few moments to have the computer do it.