Just in case you're interested, here are some more pictures of the Rackshack transformer explosion. You can see the actual fried equipment. Neat!
I spent a good deal of time last night trying to figure out how to enable Perl on Midnight Circus. For whatever reason (most likely chown permissions on the dedicated IP), they're not working. This makes it rather difficult to put the scripts that I'm working on in class online. But who needs a guestbook, anyway?
For those of you who don't know, I host this site on a dedicated server system located in Texas provided by Rackshack. Rackshack has proven more reliable than any host I have ever worked with, and since we're talking about 1995 here, that's saying something.
Last night around 8PM, the power transformer at Rackshack exploded into a 30-foot tall fireball, eliminating the primary source of power for all of the servers in their facility. Through the utilization of thought-out emergency techniques, they have been able to keep the power online continuously since the explosion - even during the explosion.
I've spent the past couple of weeks writing an editor with the specific prupose in mind of making a reasonably full-featured programmer's editor that is useful for the training of HTML. The fruit of my labor is an editor that I'm calling Less Than Slash (LTS).
For my web design class, we must have a way to edit HTML files. Currently, the teacher would like us to use Notepad, but only because it is the only raw-text editor on the computer. Notepad is less than a perfect editor, but I imagine that there are many people in class that wouldn't know this. Here are some of the problems to consider in Notepad or in any prospective HTML editor.
You can get LTS here.http://www.asymptomatic.net/LTS.exe
Using an infrared camera to take pictures of the temperatures of various animals (warm and cold-blooded) can be entertaining!http://sirtf.caltech.edu/EPO/Zoo/zoo.html