Do you often need to take critical decisions? Do you sometimes hesitate? In this case, you need an 8-ball! Initially, the Magic 8-Ball was a toy made by Tyco Toys (see the picture), the first 8-Ball was made in 1946! Now, there are plenty of electronic or online version of
Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, there were two ISP’s who decided to setup a peering…
OpenBSD goes wireless
Here is a wireless access point based on a Soekris Engineering embedded PC mother board and OpenBSD.
Welcome Charline!
Today, 08:50, my second daugher is born! Her name: Charline. As you can see, she’s already computer addict! 😉 More photos are available here.
games.skynet.be defaced!
The website games.skynet.be has been defaced today! (Source: www.saloperie.be)
The Lord of The (Token) Ring
Found this on a rootshell.be user homepage 😉
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 😉 everybody can get a free account. I always ask to give some reason why they need a free shell.