I’m utterly amazed at how much hard disk prices have dropped in the last year or two. I was just browsing dabs.com and noticed a 500GB hard disk. I’ve seen disks of that capacity before but the price caught my eye – £195 inc VAT!
Maxtor 500GB disk
Month: February 2006
MediaWiki database compression
Recently I’ve been taking daily backups of a 4.2GB mediawiki (v1.5.6) database, about 3.9GB of which was in the ‘text’ table. It was all the previous versions of pages that were taking up the space so having looked at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reduce_size_of_the_database I decided to give deleteOldRevisions.php a go.
Harry and his scooter
We finally managed to find somewhere (JJB Sports) that had the right sized helmet and knee/elbow pads for Harry that didn’t look too childish so today we went to the local park and let him ride on his scooter that he had for Christmas.
Shartak revisited
Following some recent advertising on Urban Dead and the removal of the 300 player limit, Shartak now has over 650 players and things are starting to get interesting.