My aged Nokia 6600 died the day before going on holiday. Generous souls might want to text me their numbers.
Anyone mentioning backups will be met with a rant about broken SyncML implementations.
I wish FIC would hurry up and release their consumer phone.
The unfortunate limerick cascade on the Linux Kernel Mailing List is a horror to behold.
However I have to share with you Alan Cox’s song about memory management to the tune of the Beatles Eleanor Rigby.
Ah look at all the laundered pages
Ah look at all the laundered pagesHandling Pages
Pick up the list and the link where kswap has been
A paging scheme
Runs down the I/O
Watching the queues that now keep me a list of the store
Who is it forAll the laundered pages
Where do they all come from
All the laundered pages
Where do they all belongMeeting bdflush
Writing the pages of a disk file that no one will clear
No task comes near
Look at it working
Sleeping a lot in the night when there’s no pressure there
What does it careAll the laundered pages
Where do they all come from
All the laundered pages
Where do they all belongAh look at all the laundered pages
Ah look at all the laundered pagesOracle DB
Died under load and was freed along with its name
No admin came
Good old bdflush
Wiping the dirt from the pages as it walks down the chain
Nothing was agedAll the laundered pages
(Ah look at all the laundered pages)
Where do they all come from
All the laundered pages
(Ah look at all the laundered pages)
Where do they all belong
Is about to start..
http://www.lugradio.org/live/2007/index.php/Main_Page
I am feeling a bit fragile today due to excessive beerage. Fortunately I’m not speaking this year so I can find a quiet corner to go collapse in..
I’m supposed to be going on a site-visit to Birmingham University today. Instead I will be in the office because none of the trains I need are running.
Apparently rain is now an adverse weather condition.
edit 26/06/2007
OK given that thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, maybe it does count as adverse weather.
The first election I very nearly didn’t vote for. In the end I voted so that I can still complain about them for the next three years. At least the scots get to vote for people who can actually legislate.
You Passed 8th Grade Science
Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!
Any song containing the lyric ‘We’re not unreasonable, I mean no-one’s gonna eat your eyes’ is a winner in my book.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/03/24/thing-a-week-26-re-your-brains/
Also this following link has been around for a while but it’s suitably amusing to post here. How to fill an aircraft hangar with foam.
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