Tripe and Miscellanae
Here are some things that I have learnt over the past few days:- When selling a car, don't believe dealers who say there isn't a market for your car.
- When selling a car privately through AutoTrader, it is an absolutely excellent idea to get a PAYG SIM. You can turn it off when you're busy, and now that the car is sold, we can just change the answerphone message and won't have to answer 15 calls a day. Hoorah.
- If your internet connection drops when Outlook Express is halfway through checking a folder, it won't complain. No, it would prefer to pretend everything's ok, and give you a nasty surprise two days later when you discover the backlog of urgent client e-mails.
- Apache MultiViews breaks mod_rewrite rules. One of those ones I come across every so often, always forget what causes it, and it takes me ages to figure it out again.
- Just because a monitor is expensive, it doesn't mean it's built well. My power button has broken, and now I can't turn it off. Going to try my luck with the warranty.
- Everything from a train buffet cars costs approximately three times what it would have cost if you'd just got to the station 5 minutes earlier and gone into Sainsburys. Furthermore, they have a very poor selection of drinks.
- Warm Lilt really isn't at all thirst-quenching.
- Munin makes very nice little graphs which are absolutely useless if, for some strange reason, you want to know what caused that 500% CPU spike at 1am.
- Spammers suck. Oh wait, I already knew that one.
And the fun link for today is buttersafe.com. Been reading it for a few months now; it only updates twice a week, but is awesome.
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1am cron job!
I checked, and there were no crons or anything, and it was a one-off. I figure the only thing that would cause that is a badly written web spider - meh, doesn't happen very often, and it recovers fine. Wait till I get nginx on there - that thing will sit there twiddling its thumbs during a slashdotting :)
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