knoop.org

Most of you are probably unaware that knoop.org has moved to a new server. The old server, affectionally known as peppie, has served knoop.org and several other domains without problem for years.

While I did move all email aliases to the new server, I will be contacting those who are getting free email address redirects to see if you are still using it.

For those technical minded people, peppie was a dual Pentium II running at 450MHz, a whopping 512MB of ram and 4 9.1GB U2W SCSI drives in RAID 5. The server has been on for just over 5 years and had only operating system reinstall out of curiosity, not necessity. Fedora Linux was the operating system used to run qmail, tinydns, Apache and MySQL. Below is a system snapshop just prior to permanently shutting peppie down.

top – 11:42:55 up 575 days, 22:25, 1 user, load average: 0.91, 0.27, 0.15
Tasks: 35 total, 1 running, 34 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5% us, 7.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 69.2% id, 16.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 514520k total, 387556k used, 126964k free, 206200k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 1716k used, 1050532k free, 23772k cached

Sent in via Kumica…

An 18 year old Italian girl tells her Mom that she has missed her period for 2 months. Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.

Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, “Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!”  The girl picks up the phone and makes a call.

Half an hour later, a Ferrari stops in front of their house. A mature and distinguished man with gray hair and impeccably dressed in an Armani suit steps out of the of the Ferrari and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with the father, mother, and the girl and tells them: “Good morning, your daughter has informed me of the problem. I can’t marry her because of my personal family situation but I’ll take charge. I will pay all costs and provide for your daughter for the rest of her life.

Additionally, if a girl is born, I will bequeath a Ferrari, a beach house, 2 retail stores, a townhouse, a beachfront villa, and a $2,000,000 bank account.

If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $4,000,000 bank account. If twins, they will receive a factory and $2,000,000 each.

However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?”

At this point, the father, who had remained silent, places a hand firmly on the man’s shoulder and tells him,

“You screw her again.”