Asymptomatic

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Stinking Noisy Computers

Ok, so my computer is making this awful, awful fan noise. No, just the normal fan noise, but I find it particularly irritating today. So to overpower the fan, I put in a music CD (mp3s) to play to drown out the whirring.

Well, the music starts up ok, but then I notice that my CD drive is whirring even more loudly than the fan. In fact, the music now has this low hum in the background, coming from the CD drive.

Blogathon 2005

I never officially posted about this, but I thought that I should since some people read only via feeds and might not have noticed the garnish on every page of the site.

Please join me on August 6th for Blogathon 2005, where I will be posting a new blog entry every half hour for 24 hours beginning at 9am EST to raise money for Scholarship America.

DNS Failures

Over the past hour I’ve had DNS failures coming from my upstream provider. As a result, this server could not resolve hostnames.

This is somewhat inconvenient, since there are several services on this server that require domain name resolution to work correctly. For example, the statistics package I’m running resolves domains on every hit. So every page load is slow.

Film fun

Happy FFAF! It’s only Phill, popping round for a brew…as for movies, I saw Mr and Mrs Smith a bit back, it was funny, but not that great - the plot was poor. As for those i want to see, Charlie and the Chocolate factory is on my definite list. I liked the last film, but it wasn’t too true to the book, and it’s a long time since I read that, so that could be quite good…and bewitched, I think it has nicole kidman in it, saying that I’m not actually sure what she looks like. I adore the 1950s TV series, it used to be the highlight of the days I had off sick, and now they’re re-showing it on living :) I was always fascinated by magic so it could be a good film…

~ Phill from blackheart where the FFAF fun don’t stop :p