As far as I can figure we flip over out of the curent Unix time epoch at:

%s = 2147483647 = Tue 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07
%s = 2147483648 = Fri 13 Dec 1901 20:45:52


If any of my current Linux boxes are still running then, are still on 32 bits dates and are still doing anything useful 34 years from now,
I'll be DAMN proud of them and won't give a stuff that the time has gone loopy! ;o)

We could always set them back to 1938 then ;o)

I've got one thing to say...

aotea:/var/mail/spam(61M@) [18691 msgs/6259 new]-(date-received)----------(end)-
18667 N - Dec 26 Lupe Ivey ( 25) plea,se yo`ur `gi'rlfrei:nd' ckopw
18668 N - Dec 13 Nichole Coffman ( 47) RE:Tramadol.l Valium.m Vicodin.n Xana
18669 N - Apr 03 Goldie Dorsey ( 39) steely WANT TO BE A STUD LIKE THE OLD
18670 N - Dec 25 Ulysses Hutton ( 103) Better Return, lower risk igo
18671 N - Dec 25 Helen Wiseman ( 42) The Big Give:away is still on so get
18672 N - Dec 26 Joaquin Brownin ( 18) watch the free 45min paris hilton vid
18673 N - Dec 25 Daniel Burks ( 43) Alfred.buehrmann Zyprexa.a Vicodin.n
18674 N - Dec 25 Percy Ramos ( 42) cnoatia attesbation ck xjki
18675 N - Dec 25 Cornell Santiag ( 31) You will see real reesultz right away
18676 N - Dec 26 Aurelia Schafer ( 34) You have an Overdue Balance
18677 N - Dec 25 Bessie Kane ( 10) blast your boo, rock hard in 60 secon
18678 N - Dec 18 Joyce Dotson ( 54) Soma.a Vicodin.n Valium.m Xanax.x lov
18679 N - Dec 25 Myrtice Mellage ( 22) Fwd: Myrtice
18680 N - Dec 25 Luella Sykes ( 46) centpnnial doldruns qq dmwb tb mdw
18681 N - Dec 26 Spencer Fox ( 73) Italian-crafted Rolex - only $65 - $1
18682 N - Dec 25 Ann L. Pierce ( 10) No Pills Or Capsules
18683 N - Dec 25 Frances B. Hoyt ( 12) Please your lover better
18684 N - Dec 25 Marshall Whitta ( 67) Teens deflowered for 50k spending cas
18685 N - Mar 28 Cornelia ( 25) The summer of 2003...get ready now
18686 N - Dec 25 Courtney Palino ( 22) Fwd: Courtney
18687 N - Dec 25 Gideon ( 10) amag Get VIAGRA at $3 per dose. Best
18688 N - Dec 25 Neddie ( 10) cho Energize your sex life right NOW.
18689 N - Dec 25 Gallagher Franc ( 41) Re: XVZCEFYO, yesterday you were
18690 N - Dec 13 Dolly Hurt ( 44) RE:Vioxx.x Valium.m Vicodin.n Xanax.x
18691 N - Dec 25 Cynthia Bryson ( 21) Ikissed her ruby lips


That's a LOT of spam!!! :o)
(I haven't had a chance to clear the "spam" account where most of our spam gets directed since I left to go home to NZ on the 18th of July... and there's that many in there now!

John's OpenVMS Webpage

Hmmm... this looks cool too Geeklog - The Ultimate Weblog System (*shrug* about the security issues)
It's the software that Ralu is using on her site...

And today, to brave of the cold I...

Discovered how to change the colour scheme in playmp3list (YUCK! I hate the Ocean one that it is set to in Debian!!!)

Found out how to define a custom icon for my homepage which overrides the default site icon...

Found The Kewpie Doll Massacre in the GreyMatter Photo Gallery :o)

Hmmm GreyMatter, you don't think I might have been searching for my own blog software do you ???

Oh and I thought about joining the kiwi blogs too...

Here are some Javascript bits I came up with the other day...

They won't work in Intranet Exploder, but they'll work with Ye Grande Ole Oprey, Nutscrape, Mozilly and Firebird... :o)

• Google Search
• Hotbot Search
• Blog This
• Validate CSS
• Validate HTML
• Check Links
• Backflip it

Laurence was talking about having worked on VXWorks

Might read up on this a bit...

Google: vxworks
Google: vx works

Which lead me to: The Official Abandonware Ring

How cool is that ? I just guessed 'cat -n' when I wanted to put line numbers on the output of grep... hehehe... 9 years using Unix almost daily and I'm still finding new tricks every day!!! I love Unix!!!

BTW: I did:


grep -v "^[^.]*#" example.txt | cat -n


to find the number of non-commented lines in the file...


...ummm nl does the same...

Hey, somewhere safe and out of the way to keep the geeky blog bits... :o)

my normal (non-geeky) blog is at http://serf.blogspot.com/

and most of my technical notes are in my wiki at http://wiki.a32.net/

But this can be somewhere in between... :o)

I think mostly I'll want to put things in the wiki still, because there's SO much stuff it needs to be easily grouped into relevant areas, and it's a godsend having the search engine on it too... (I just wish it was Google!)

I got the idea for having a geek blog from David Graves' Geek Blog which I found today when looking for help on a strange Apache error message:

[warn] (128)Network is unreachable: connect to listener

which Laurence got at work today...