For those of you that ae wondering why I’m so quite, I’m busy painting my Landy…

I found this clever site that gives you info about your car based on the VIN number:

http://www.clifton.nl/index.html?calvin.html

Here is the output for mine:

241

Model: Land Rover, Series IIA
Body type: Basic or Station wagon
Wheel base: 88in
Engine: petrol
Model years: 1962-1971
Destination: Home market, right-hand drive (RHD)
23405    Serial number
C

Design: Two significant design modifications
Suffix used from April 1966 till April 1967

This is similar to the “digg -effect”, just this time it involves real votes….

I would have expected the IEC to antisipate that a large number of people would like to view the results, live online. I guess ensuring peacefull elections is a higher priority. I hope next time they will be prepared for the huge increase in traffic to their site.

It looks tlike they are using IIS, maybe next time use a LAMP server.

Hi

Here is another quicky:

Ever ssh’d into a server and got the legal gibberish message?

You can easily change it by editing the file:

/etc/motd

Anything you post in there will be shown when you log into a terminal via ssh. I choose to spread Tux love, so here is what most of the boxes I admin looks like:

      .-.
      /v\    L   I   N   U   X
     // \\  >Phear the Penguin<
    /(   )\
     ^^-^^
  Welcome to {Servername} HQ.

Over and out.