That is how long it took my server to grind to a halt. I rebooted it today (that beats the previous record hands down).
Unfortunately, the department does not support the Redhat installations any more. There is a plan to change mine to CentOS, but I haven't quite acted on it. I guess I am waiting for the next intrusion before I upgrade.
Monday, December 06, 2010
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
China, Israel
A sure way to never get around to making a blog entry is to plan on writing a long one. So let me instead just post a couple of photos to mark my two week-long trips in the latter half of May and first week of June, to Beijing and to Israel (Tel Aviv and Jerusalem). I might add more later.
First was Beijing, and the tourist highlight was a trip to the Great Wall. I went to the Juyongguan. With an excellent public transportation system (if one is willing to sit through rickety bus rides, that is) it wasn't too hard, despite a near zero ability to communicate, to find my way to Juyonggaun. [For the next person desperately scouring the interwebs to find their way to Juyongguan, here's how: I took the subway line 13 to Long Ze, then took bus no 20, and for the last short segment took a cab for 10RMB without bargaining; on the way back I took bus no. 68 (which I could have taken instead of number 20 on my way to the pass -- in fact number 68 goes all the way to the pass) to Long Ze, and subway line 13 from there. It is useful to look for directions in Google maps, so that you will have some idea of which way to walk to get to the bus from the subway station. I think it took over 2 hours in one direction.]
The Israel trip, less than week after returning from Beijing, was surprisingly hassle-free. The photos show a view of the old city of Jaffa (from the beach at Tel Aviv), and a couple of views in the old city in Jerusalem. The wall is the one that goes around the old city. The cafe (showing men playing board games) is the same one in front of which I got to witness some interesting action the night before.
To round off this entry, here is a photo from my train trip from Chicago Union Station to New York Penn Station, some time in April. The trip turned out to be as nice as I expected. I would have taken the train back to Chicago, if I didn't have to rush back to teach a class.
More photos here, here and here.
First was Beijing, and the tourist highlight was a trip to the Great Wall. I went to the Juyongguan. With an excellent public transportation system (if one is willing to sit through rickety bus rides, that is) it wasn't too hard, despite a near zero ability to communicate, to find my way to Juyonggaun. [For the next person desperately scouring the interwebs to find their way to Juyongguan, here's how: I took the subway line 13 to Long Ze, then took bus no 20, and for the last short segment took a cab for 10RMB without bargaining; on the way back I took bus no. 68 (which I could have taken instead of number 20 on my way to the pass -- in fact number 68 goes all the way to the pass) to Long Ze, and subway line 13 from there. It is useful to look for directions in Google maps, so that you will have some idea of which way to walk to get to the bus from the subway station. I think it took over 2 hours in one direction.]
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The Israel trip, less than week after returning from Beijing, was surprisingly hassle-free. The photos show a view of the old city of Jaffa (from the beach at Tel Aviv), and a couple of views in the old city in Jerusalem. The wall is the one that goes around the old city. The cafe (showing men playing board games) is the same one in front of which I got to witness some interesting action the night before.
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To round off this entry, here is a photo from my train trip from Chicago Union Station to New York Penn Station, some time in April. The trip turned out to be as nice as I expected. I would have taken the train back to Chicago, if I didn't have to rush back to teach a class.
More photos here, here and here.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Bike
The one good thing about having a blog is I can look up when various things happened. At least various things that happened when I still used to blog with some semblance of regularity. So that's how I know that it has been a little over two and a half years since I got my bike. A couple of days back I got new brake pads for it (no more putting my foot down to stop) and replaced my broken helmet. (I don't exactly know when I got that helmet -- probably about three years back; seems like a short life.)
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Happy New Year
This happens to be the first post in this blog in 2010. But the new year greetings are timely, if you follow the Chinese calendar. It's the year of the tiger, but I'll make do with this photo from my Beijing trip last month.
Talking of blog posts, the archives tell me that I made 35 entries in the first year of this blog (2005, and that is starting in May), 26 in 2006, 20 in 2007, 10 in 2008 and 5 in 2009. The latest trend suggests I'll post 2.5 entries this year.
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