I came home to find my laptop had rebooted into linux (a much more sane operating system), without any information, I looked at the event log and found that I was being hit by the limit to te number of TCP/IP connections that can be made per second. I hit this when I open a group of bookmarks in firefox! There is more detail here, but the long and short of things is if you attempt to make more than 10 connections in a second you are rate limited, and a message is logged in the event log. It’s not tunable in the registry, you need to hack the tcpip.sys file directly. I presume the reason for not allowing the registry hack is to prevent virus writers/trojan horse writers from making alterations to the registry value, thus removing it’s capability. Annoying, but work-aroundable. SpeedGuide.net :: Windows XP SP2
Star wars revelations
How to destroy the world
This one’s for you Rob. I know you have it in you 🙂 How to destroy the world
Dogs
Home of the Underdogs
This is where I go to remember all the cool games of yore!
Megatokyo development
I’ve been reading Megatokyo for a long time, and it’s just great. The current developments make me feel like the bit in the Fight Club where Edward Norton’s character says: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have just lost cabin pressure”. Tune in 3 times a week for updates. If you feel like reading a lot of the earlier ones I would recommend buying the books – it’s a small cost to you, and it allows you to track the story far better than online. At 681 comics that’s a lot of online reading.
TTFN,
Pete.
Trivia
The cat in the smurfs is Azrael.
What Samurai code matches you?
Compassion: You are there to share your sympathy with others. People would consider you affectionate and caring, and someone to look up to.
Which Characteristic From the Samurai Code Matches You Best? (You may find out your best trait)
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Linkies
Let Them Eat Cake
The French is Qu’ils mangent de la brioche (not gateau as
one might expect). And Queen Marie-Antoinette did *not* say this.
(When famine struck Paris, she actually took an active role in
relieving it.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau attributed the words to “a
great princess” in book 6 of his Confessions. Confessions
was published posthumously, but book 6 was written 2 or 3 years
before Marie-Antoinette arrived in France in 1770.
John Wexler writes: “French law obliged bakers to sell certain
standard varieties of loaf at fixed weights and prices. (It still
does, which explains why the most expensive patisserie will sell you
a baguette for the same price as a supermarket.) At the time when
this quotation originated, the law also obliged the baker to sell a
fancier loaf for the price of the cheap one when the cheap ones were
all gone. This was to forestall the obvious trick of baking just a
few standard loaves, so that one could make more profit by using the
rest of the flour for price-unregulated loaves. So whoever it was
who said Qu’ils mangent de la brioche, she (or he) was not being
wholly flippant. The idea was that the bread shortage could be
alleviated if the law was enforced against profiteering bakers. I
have seen this explanation quoted in defence of Marie Antoinette.
It seems a pity, after all that, if she didn’t say it.”
Gregory Titelman, in Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs
& Sayings (1996), writes: “Zhu Muzhi [head of the official Chinese
Human Rights Study Society in the People’s Republic of China] traces
it to an ancient Chinese emperor who, being told that his subjects
didn’t have enough rice to eat, replied, ‘Why don’t they eat meat?'”
Sprites
The Spriters Resource
Sprites from all our favourite 8 bit games 🙂