Tim's Bits and Pieces

A family in Cairns is being criticized in the comments on this article for not saving a joey from a large python. With some of the comments I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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The ABC on Holiday Hangovers:

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Red!

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As with most things there's a right way and a wrong way to ford a river. This is the wrong way:

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How to turn a fine into a long prison sentence.

Since I missed posting over the weekend I thought I'd share a little Linux one-liner that I found amusing. For those that don't know "load" in the Unix world often refers to the system load averages for one, five, or fifteen minutes. The system load average is the average number of processes in the "ready" state over the period in question. Processes in the "ready" state are normally waiting for a chance to use the CPU, but it also includes processes waiting for I/O, which the following one-liner takes advantage of to cause an artificial load spike:

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AKA: Revenge of the Sith. This is hilarious; I find myself wondering if I could pick up a copy from somewhere.

The British government has banned a beer ad for, wait for it... "suggesting that the beer could increase confidence". Beer could increase confidence? What a silly idea; I mean it's not like five minutes of searching showed several pages that listed increased self-confidence as one of the possible effects of moderate alcohol consumption. Wait yeah it is, see the Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia and Wikipedia for example.

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Looks like the sharks demanded a rematch, which they promptly lost. That's two-nil in favour of the crocs.

Just a bunch of interesting links I've found over the past while, don't worry I'm still planning to write a real blog post this weekend as well. Also sorry for missing the last two posts, Christmas was deliberate, but I just didn't get anything done on the 3rd/4h.

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