Is “baidu” Japanese for “WTF”?

Several months ago, I virtualized most of the services running on tim.des.no, so www.des.no now runs in a jail and has its own IP.

This morning, I discovered that I had forgotten to stop the Varnish instance that ran on tim.des.no, and that it was still getting traffic. I looked at the logs, and most of it was what you’d expect (attack bots looking for known vulnerabilities in various web servers or apps which I don’t run), but I certainly did not expect this: Continue reading “Is “baidu” Japanese for “WTF”?”

En helt alminnelig dag i Bergen

Dagbladet er opptatt av at Google Street View-bilene kjører på rådyr og fotograferer kløften til passerende kvinner. Her er en litt mer positiv Google Street View-opplevelse:

  1. Finn fram til Markeveien 4C i Bergen på Google Maps.
  2. Klikk «more» og velg Street View.
  3. Vend deg mot øst (i retning Torgallmenningen).
  4. Juster kameravinkelen slik at du ser mot den gule bygning merket «Suitell Ole Bull».
  5. Klikk deg videre mot Torgallmenningen, og følg med på den lille hverdagshistorien som utfolder seg på fortauet foran 4B og 4A. Du vil etterhvert måtte snu kameraet til siden og bakover for å få med deg hele handlingen.

Windows Update and Automatic Reboots

Glad to see I’m not the only one pissed off by this. I found a useful article on this topic on the Microsoft Update Product Team’s blog. The article was written back in the Vista days, but the procedure is the same in Windows 7, except that it’s much quicker to type “Edit Group Policy” in the Start menu search box than to try to find it in the Control Panel.

This has gone too far

You know the little bits of transparent (and sometimes but usually not colored) cling film they put on glossy surfaces on electronic gadgets so they don’t get scratched during packaging or shipping, so your technologically challenged parental units complain that the display on their new CD player is blurry because they didn’t realize they were supposed to remove it?

I just unpacked a brand new HP 22″ monitor. The stand has a tiny HP logo embossed on the head—the swiveling bit where you actually attach the panel. A normal user will see that logo for about 30 seconds between unpacking the monitor and assembling it. She might not even notice it… if it weren’t for the fact that it has a tiny square of cling film stuck to it.

By the way, HP is the company that markets its products with the slogan “The Computer is Personal Again” in a Nightmare-Before-Christmas-ish font, yet the power supply for an HP laptop weighs more than my wife’s MacBook Air. And I’m only exaggerating a little.