Firefox 1.0 has been released this week. If you're still not using Firefox, you really should give it a try : it's a fast, secure and feature rich browser, way better than Internet Explorer.




I upgraded my Windows machine at work to 1.0, but ran into some problems with tabs : tabs open, but do not display any content, which is rather annoying. The Find in text option does give me problems too. So I decided to downgrade to PR2, which apparently had this behaviour too. Further downgrading to PR1 resolved this. I do not know if it's a bug or something I did wrong while upgrading. Any hints ?

Veerle has posted some of the most extreme advanced projects that engineers are working on these days (real or still in concept stage). Of course, the space elevator is amongst them.

rotk-see.de.vu has some new images and chapter information about the upcoming extended edition of Return of the King, the last part in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Everyone on the web seem to have said his opinion on the 2004 elections in the USA, so I guess there's no need to add mine. Wallofsleep.com has a posted a nice colored card of America which shows how 'purple' (red for Republicans, blue for Democrats) the USA has become.

The chess game Thinking Machine 4 is a Java applet that offers a unique insight in the process of a chess game by visualizing the game tree.

MIBdepot.com is a search engine with over 6200 SNMP MIBs representing over 910,000 MIB object definitions.


No doubt, every admin must bookmark this site!

Sun has a great overview on their sunsolve site about their currently available and supported servers. Speaking of which, I have seen a great bargain on a secondhand Enterprise 5500 server, which would look great in my living room ;)

For those who are curious about the names of the full moons they are listed below.

• JANUARY - the Old Moon, or Moon After Yule


• FEBRUARY - the Snow Moon, Hunger Moon or Wolf Moon


• MARCH - the Sap Moon, Crow Moon or Lenten Moon


• APRIL - the Grass Moon or Egg Moon


• MAY - the Planting Moon or Milk Moon


• JUNE - the Rose Moon or Flower Moon


• JULY - the Thunder Moon or Hay Moon


• AUGUST - the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon


• SEPTEMBER - the full moon of September is called the Fruit Moon. Usually it is also the Harvest Moon..


• OCTOBER - As the full moon nearest to the autumn equinox [in 1982], this is called the Harvest Moon.. Other versions of the rule are that the Harvest Moon is the full moon at or after the equinox, or that it is allways in October... Farmers at the climax of harvest can work late into the night by the light of the moon...


• NOVEMBER - the Frosty Moon or Beaver Moon. As the full moon after the Harvest Moon [in 1982] this is called the Hunter''s Moon...Since the fields have been reaped, hunter can ride across the stubble, and can see the fox more easily; also other animals which have come out to glean and can be caught for a thanksgiving banquet after the harvest..


• DECEMBER - the Moon Before Yule, or Long Night Moon. In a December with two full moons, the second of these title should apply to the second of them.

Charles Spurgeons site about Ethernet offers a wide range of Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) documentation and links to other Ethernet resources.

I have finally found some time to install my new Sun Enterprise 3000 server, now hostnamed Caradhras. It has been installed with Solaris 10 (s10_63), and a 5 GB sized partition has been dedicated to Debian. The config of the dualboot between Solaris and Debian wasn't very easy. I finally choose the following path :

1. Install Solaris (root partition on slice 0), and dedicate 2 partitions for Linux.


2. Let Solaris install its bootblock and update the nvram.


3. Install Linux/Debian and let it install Silo over the Solaris bootblock in slice 0


4. When in command line, run ''silo -t'' to install the Silo bootblock on the same partition as your Linux root.


5. Finally, boot from the Solaris cdrom and install the Solaris bootblock again on slice 0 :

installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

That way, the machine boots into its bootprompt, and with ''boot disk:g'' (if you installed Linux on /dev/sda7) you can boot into Silo.
Sun has put up a page with more information about Linux/Solaris dualboot setups.