Wed, 12 Apr 2006

One man's commentary on Ryan Air's 'terror' incident today

Regarding Ryan Air diverting a plane to Prestwick (it was supposed to land in Dublin) today:
[17:27] <kevin> a ryan air flight had a security alert due to a suspect package in the last few minutes. at a guess i'm going to say the package contained books and pamphlets on good customer service, how to maintain decent employee relations and info on how to start a union. [17:28] <davew> kevin: you're a cynical, vicious man. i commend you :)
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Link(s) of the Day

http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0771/: A tribute to the humble Cadbury's Creme Egg. My sister has long been a leading experimental scientist, testing the limits of what can, and cannot, be done with these little pieces of heaven... Wait - isn't that Fry's Chocolate Creme? - Who cares... Mmmmm , so delicious.../dd>
http://www.c-wilkie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/jokes/pages/badgers_arse.html: This made me laugh so I've put it here to amuse Sinéad specifically, and all you lot generally. Be amused! Do it! I insist on amusement.
http://www.catteacorner.com/dragosteadintei.htm: Translated lyrics for the Numa Numa Song that has swept through the internet like a webcam-tastic breath of (not so?) fresh air... or something.... definitely something.

posted at: 17:13 | path: /lotd | permanent link to this entry

resize2fs

Today I have observed that enlarging an ext3 volume is quite quick. Making one smaller is quite slow. (In fairness, I did pop 127GB of test data on it...)

ho...hum...
I have also observed that Babylon 5 is still great - and Infection (Caution: Spoilers!) is one of my favourite episodes. Yes! I'm sad - I have favourite espisodes of B5. *cry* etc.
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Thanks to #linux

A particular note of thanks to bfree, paul (Jakma), dredg and others, who gave of their time to assist me in working around some of the most God-awful hardware I've ever had the displeasure to use. I'll write up a full report at some other time, but the long and the short of it is to avoid iTE chipsets, particularly the IT8212, like the plague. They are shonky pieces of broken tat. In my case, the card managed to completely 'remove' the SCSI card and any devices attached to it at boot time - not hugely useful if you want to boot from a SCSI attached disk...
Thanks guys.
posted at: 04:04 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry