And when Krill was almost done with its repairs, it died again! Not so much problems, because it just could restart and then continue almost where it was in its repairs.
Then a few minutes later it seemed like the thunder had stopped and I started the sites. I was about to post some news about the crash, and while doing that, there was another power problem and Krill died again!
And this time I had to start all over with repairing all tables. I really really don't like MySQL-tables! Repairing indexes is no fun when it takes hours!
Damn! Krill died with Elfpack, Fake and the other sites!
But Elftown somehow survived thanks to it's great (and quite expensive) power-supply. But there are still heavy thunderstorms here and the damn shit doesn't seem to want to stop!
The UPS should be here in the afternoon... If these thunderstorms continue, I better turn Elftown off at once and connect it. But it takes 8 hours to charge the battery so I guess I'll just do that first as it isn't that much use without the battery loaded. Well... Maybe some use. The power-failures are mostly only half a second or so, which a pretty empty battery should be able to handle.
Start practicing and learn how to use your sonar!
http://www.the
Basically: Click with your tongue and listen to the difference in the sound depending on if there is an object in from of you.
I find it the hardest to make those damn sounds sound the same all the time.
A world wide ant empire:
http://news.bb
There are some power-problems here... Elftown survived though, but my UPS was screaming and Krill (www.elfpack.co
Beer wars
I just saw the pretty nice documentary Beer Wars. Mostly interesting to [Viking], I guess. But it do have quite a few general issues that is interesting (The woman making it doesn't even drink alcohol).
It clearly displays both how huge companies can benefit the society by bringing what they want, but cheaper, but also how "cheaper" might start to mean "the only and more expensive choice" when regulations and bought politicians start to hit an industry.
You can download the movie from here for example:
http://www.min
If you want to learn a lot of interesting things about beer, then this movie has not so much to offer. It's more about business, but it's quite fun, especially in the beginning. In the end it's more about Anheuser-Busch(Bud, you know?)-bashing.
I myself had never heard of that three-tier beer distribution system (http://www.bee
For you who like squids and such stuff. This is a really nice talk:
Ocean depths and the Undersea Voyager Project.
http://www.you
http://underse
One interesting fact is a calculation about that to support the sperm whale population of the world, there have to be about 6 000 000 000 giant squids in the world's seas. But they live at such depths and are so afraid of light that they are almost unknown anyway.
Mosquito!
So, if you loved Firefly, you'll... Eh... Well, it's pretty fun: www.mosquitove
Direct link to behind the scenes movie:
http://www.mos
A sober look at Iran:
http://www.str
Iran's problem isn't the election, but the strange of freedom of speech that the so called "Islamic" republic enforce. If the so-called Muslims in the guardian council could take some time of to read their book, they'll see that fighting freedom of speech is like spitting Mohamed in the face.
The second problem is the practice that the guardian council disallow democratic candidates. Cooperation with people of different views are cornerstone in the Koran. Which, apparently, the guardian council uses for toilet paper...
But even if these problems are resolved, Iran will have the same democratic problems as India: Poor people will be fooled to vote for politicians who appear to help them, even though they are mostly enriching themselves and/or create an inefficient society with powerless individuals where you have to apply to do anything.
And that problem can only be solved if the brightest people in the society get into politics.
And a cultural perspective of file-sharing:
http://cdybeda
Todays lesson in New English:
The British minister of censorship is called Minister for Communications
Show him that you care! Throw out your TV-set on the street and watch everything via bittorrent instead! Remember that every time you buy a file, watch TV without totally avoiding the ads, buy a CD or DVD, a little bit more of Internet dies.
Crash again
This time for a totally unknown reason. And it seems like [Elftron] was disturbing out my network too while doing its guru meditation. It might just have been the network card running amok and then eventually crash the entire computer.
Basically nothing got lost in the crash. Maybe a few gb-messages or wiki-comments, but no postings for example. It was just between 09:57 and 10:22.