Archives: 2003 January
Medical Mysteries
January 29th, 2003, No Comments
“You have the sort of sinuses an ENT dreams about” – not what you want to hear from your doctor after a CT scan. About four months ago I had a cold. A month later I still had it and began to suspect it wasn’t a cold. My ENT thought it might be an allergy. [...]
Root Name Server Abuse
January 24th, 2003, No Comments
I’m suprised this hasn’t appeared on Slashdot yet but I found it interesting. A study of one of the root name servers done by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center shows 98% of queries it handles are unnecessary. 70% of the queries are duplicates, 13% are for bogus TLDs like .elvis, 7% are queries [...]
First Post: 2003
January 21st, 2003, No Comments
Well, I suppose it’s a bit late to be posting new year’s resolutions so I’ll just skip straight on to other things. I’ve picked up a couple of new ODP categories to play with. ODP still hasn’t gotten the RDF export fixed. They seem to be having some major scaling issues right now. Wish they’d [...]
