Archive for March, 2009
UIT Cambridge has quietly opened my book's Web site, where you'll find a full table of contents, the per chapter examples, and some other goodies.
If you haven't yet got a copy, you should get one — I hear the book is pretty good.
Mir steht keine Abwrackpraemie zu, aber ich wollte trotzem mal die neue Web Site sehen — wie Tausende von andere. Hier isse:
Immerhin gibt es Heute eine Fehlerseite. Gestern waren es lediglich Timeouts.
Quick and easy: Add tomatoes, lots of chopped spring onions and olives to a casserole, and cook those for a few minutes in a bit of olive oil, adding salt, pepper and 3-4 cloves of garlic. Simmer gently for just a few minutes.
Rince chicken breasts well, dry and slice them open along the long side, [...]
We were invited to dine on HMS Belfast.
She is moored very near London Bridge, actually directly to the left of where I'm standing taking this picture.
Today, the ship is a museum.
Unfortunately, we couldn't tour the ship — just had a few shots going to and from the dinner.
London is a fun city to visit, but don't go if you're hungry; with the notable exception of Indian cuisine, the food is lousy.
Londoners don't know which side of the pavement they should walk on. This is probably due to the tourists who don't know whether they should walk on the left or [...]
IBM's TSM restore is great: look at how it screws up inode attributes upon a restore:
$ ls -l filename
—S–sr-x 1 1292 301989983 3192698120 Apr 23 1978 filename
The file permissions are borked.
The file's uid and gid are horribly overborked.
The restore time is underborked.
About the only correct thing is the file size. And its content. [...]