Found this on a rootshell.be user homepage š
DreamTV
TF1, the biggest French television channel has started a new service: DreamTV, television based on ADSL technology! They started a beta-test of this service with ~200 homes near Paris.
Colocation Nightmare
In the category “Don’t try this at home”, a friend allows me to use this picture as a good example of colocation nightmare! I imagine the on-duty engineer in front is this rack with his mobile: “Could you repeat please? Which one?” “Ahhhh, the yellow one!” “…”
Looking for Quake players?
Are you looking for new challenges in Quake? Find them on IRC! Quakenet is the biggest network of IRC servers dedicated to the well-known game with approximatively 150K players online worldwide. Quakenet has online statistics about their main servers: http://mrtg.quakenet.org/quakenet.org.html.
Never mix love and IRC!
I maintain a service of free Unix shell accounts (www.rootshell.be) where (almost š everybody can get a free account. I always ask to give some reason why they need a free shell.
First trace of myself on the Net
While browsing the Google Usenet news archive, I found the following article:
Need for speed?
Why is my Internet connection so slow? Compare!
Ok? Do you mean “Ok” or “Ok”?
Everybody knows and uses the acronym “O.K.” several times a day. But, where’s the origin of those two well-know letters?
Wooops! Bad day!
Yesterday, we received from one of our carriers (called “xxxxxxx” š a notification for a maintenance on a STM1 scheduled for today at 11:00.
Happy Birthday to my job!
Today, it’s my job birthday! Seven (!) years of good services at a Belgian ISP.