Lord of War

Apparently, the wars raging around the world, particularily in Iraq and Afghanistan, are putting such a strain on the supplies of ammunition that there is anticipation that the supplies for hunters might go short. Ha, can you imagine if we ran out of bullets?? We'd have to go back to boards with nails in them. Or better yet, lasers!!

Server update #1

I think it's been about 7 months since my server went down, which in the life of a computer is an incredibly long time. I built the system a little over two years ago, so it's definitely showing its age, but should for the most part still live up to its intended use. Ah, sorry for that, I missed its comforting hum, I'm getting a little emotional.

Anyhow, The 'crash' was a harddrive failure on what happened to be the disk that the OS was residing on. It was also the disk where all the home accounts were, the databases, the websites, and... Sigh, pretty much everything. Except! Except, the music and movie, ummm... backups. They were on two other disks that are still accessible.

This however doesn't mean the server is back up and running, it means that I'm not going to bludgeon myself with the computer for not backing up some...

Haha... ok, just went through a slightly fun telephone survey about beer. Yes I like beer, no I don't feel discriminated against by bud, No I don't think Coors light is unintelligent. All in all, it just made me want beer. The choices were Big Rock, Coors Light, Bud, Old Style Pilsner, Molson Canadian that they were interested in. I like Big Rock's range of beers, and quite enjoy Grasshopper and their honey brown. The rest I'd drink if they were the only option. After the whole survey was done, the very nice young lady asks for the first three characters of my postal code to verify that the survey was done in the correct province. I give them to her, and she says that they're not coming up as the correct province. I say they're for Ontario. She asks for my Manitoba one. I don't have a Manitoban postal code, I say. As she's quickly wrapping up her probably pointless survey with me, I relalize that they called my 204 number, which along with my 416 number go to the same phone. Haha, take that Ipsos Reid, Voip's got your number!

Now back to the computer, the plan, is to get two 500GB drives, to create a raid 1 array (Mirrored, both disks contain the exact same info, for redundancy), an external harddrive to back up everthing really important (like photos of my kick ass friends...) and then reinstall the OS and set everything back up. That will take a while, unfortunately, as I don't have a whole bunch of cash for the disks. I could get one 500GB disk now and run the risk of losing everything on that disk, but would have the external HDD for a backup for now.

I do want to get this damn computer back up, for the webserver and the mythtv setup, since I currently have two computers that aren't running anything.

More to come, hopefully I'll get computer parts for my birthday, and all will be good soon.

Cheers,.

Porn on the Internet? The numbers to prove it

It's not much of a mystery that porn is the biggest industry on the internet, but my recent Linux Journal gave some cold, hard (eh, eh ... wink wink... ) numbers:

This from the Linux Journal Index for September 2007:

Percentage of websites that are pornographic: 12
Porno. % of all search engine requests: 25
Porn percentage of all downloads: 35
Number of users viewing porn per second: 28,358
Dollars (US) spent on porn every second: 89
Number of new porn sites going up every day: 266
Estimated billions of porn web pages: 372
Position of sex among the most searched words: 1
US revenue from Internet porn in 2006: 2.84 Billion Dollars
Male percentage of Internet orn users: 72
Percentage of porn traffic during the 9-5 eight-hour workday: 70
Percentage or porn sites produced by the US: 89

There are other's but not as interestingly related to porn.
These numbers were sourced from 'Good Magazine'.

I wonder if the developers of the Internet, mainly the US government and universities, ever thought that they would create something that could deliver so much porn (372 billion webpages) to so many people (28K people/second).

So there you have it, porn does exist on the internet if you look hard enough for it...

Cheers.

Down by the road-side bomb

I think this is fantastic!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/29/military-bombs.html

The Canadian government has decided to purchase 16 specialized vehicles from the U.S. army for the purpose of finding, uncovering and neutralizing Road-side bombs in Afghanistan. Six Huskies, Five Buffalos and Five Cougars.

The Huskies will locate the bombs, the Buffalos will dig them up and the cougars will neutralize them.

Now, admittedly I'm no soldier, nor do I have any combat experience, but common sense dictates to me that tripling the size of your convoy might make you an easier target. They also now have three machines to do what in my mind should be the job of one. You know, not to mention the fact that while your Buffalo is digging up the bomb, someone is sticking a couple more to the bottom of your Husky and Cougar.

But what I like best about this, is that they are purchasing these machines, used, from the U.S. military, who up to this point have had an exemplary record of NOT being blown up by road-side bombs. Or as they call these devices that never harm them, IED's.

Chuck Norris Fact of the Day.....

Chuck Norris puts the laughter in manslaughter.

It's time to get high boys!!