When Belgacom will realize that quota fixed on their ADSL offers are not relevant anymore! When the ever-growing offer of online *legal* services (video on demand, streaming, collaborating tools, …) and the remote office (VPN) users, quotas must be adapted! Working from home today, my Internet connectivity is rate-limited to
Category: Grrrr!
GPS & Portable DVD player incompatibility?
Really no idea why but… when I use my portable DVD player in my car, my GPS cannot find satellites anymore!?! Grmbl! Is it the player itself? the small 17″ screens?
C for dummies
WTF! A critical daemon (vmpsd) crashing due to this piece of code: function(char *s) { // bla bla bla fprintf(stderr, “%s\\n”, s); // bla bla bla } main() { // bla bla blah function(NULL); // bla bla bla }
tic… tic… tic… WTF!
Five days ago, I bought a new USB external HD (Lacie 120GB). Today I started to migrate some files. Lot of them are bigger than 4GB, so I formatted the disk from FAT32 to NTFS (don’t blame me). At 79%, tic! tic! tic! Errors… 🙁 If I didn’t started a
Colo Nightmare!
A few weeks ago, my box was moved to a new datacenter without prior notification(!). My hoster just gave the reason of the move: better prices! Result: six hours of downtime. Last Friday, 10PM, my server went down for an unknown reason (just before the long X-mas weekend, thanks to
Sofrasolone rulez!
One of the best invention ever! 😉 <snifffffff>
mysqld got signal 11
Today I found this nice mysql “feature”: mysql> set password for user@host = old_password(“foobar”); ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query This command generated a nice log: mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or
/dev/hda dead!
No idea if it’s the high temperature we had the last weeks, the hollidays, the moon phase but yesterday my business laptop harddisk died! :-[ Bad blocks on /dev/hda2 (/) and /usr/hda6 (/usr). Game over! RIP! (It’s the 4th HP notebook that lost its disk in my company in 3
F***king Spammers!
I created today a new email address in my domain at 12:11. First spam received at 18:41! 🙁
Back online…
Major hardware issues with my box! Several random crashes, became very unstable and unusable… 🙁 Seems that it was a motherboard problems! Finally, everything is back online. In the same time, I completely reinstalled the OS (OpenBSD 3.9 now)