geek stuff

Mozilla family of browser supports a variety about: commands. Today I searched inside the source code to see where they have been implemented and the complete list of the commands it supports. Here is the list Firefox supports. Type these urls in your Firefox browser for countless hours of fun (for very low values of fun).

• about:config
• about:credits
• about:plugins
• about:mozilla
• about:logo
• about:buildconfig
• about:license
• about:licence
• about:about
• about:neterror

Link: source code

This looks very obvious in hindsight, but I am sure not many would have thought about this. This guy uses the HL's source engine to produced a model of the Kaufmann House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Using the Source Engine, as opposed to more traditional Architectural Software, allows the use of dynamic lighting and a real-time walkthrough of the scene in high resolution.

Links: the HL map for Kaufmann House and a walk through available here

If you are seeing the line received 0 length packet from server, apparent master shutdown in your mysqld.err file (when your mysql server is a slave), check the server-id of the machines which are replicating from the same server. Most likely, you will find that there are boxes which have the same server-id