Monthly Archives: August 2006

hey ya!

By stotti | Published: August 16, 2006
awesome accapella cover of outkasts “hey ya” by mat weddle of obadiah parker. i really like this (as the original itself). [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ioKEDgnfs8[/video] My baby don’t mess around Because she loves me so And this I know fo shooooo..
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15 websites that changed the world

By stotti | Published: August 15, 2006
the guardian is celebrating the world wide web’s birthday by publishing a list of 15 websites that change the world. here it is, in an abridged form, commented by me: ebay.com (168million users) wikipedia.org (912,000 visits per day) napster.com (500,000 paying subscribers) youtube.com (100million video clips watched a day) blogger.com (18.5million unique visitors) friendsreunited.com (15million users) drudgereport.com (8-10million page views a day) [...]
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utf-8 and solaris 10 proudly present: the nagging box – and how to remove it

By stotti | Published: August 11, 2006
i, as a native-speaker of german, tend to use my desktop o/s in a localized manner. this does not apply to my servers, where i usually use posix-c as a locale. anyway, when setting the locale to de_DE.UTF-8 on solaris 10 1/06, something strange happens: the almighty box appears! PASTE SCREENSHOT HERE where does it come from? what [...]
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the google maps flight sim

By stotti | Published: August 9, 2006
viral marketing works… at least for me. today i got the link to goggles :: the google maps flight sim, a flash-game that rips off google maps’ satellite images and lets you fly around on it. for steering use the arrow keys, the ‘a’ & ‘z’ keys throttle speed and, as an extra gimmick, you [...]
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sun fire v20z: service processor troubleshooting

By stotti | Published: August 8, 2006
i usually check the service processors (sp) of my machines quite frequently. recently i had several occurances regarding sp system events on different sun fire v20z servers. so let’s troubleshoot some of them. [code]xxxxx-sp $ sp get events ID Last Update Component Severity Message 2 11/27/2005 22:55 [...]
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