The Wikipedia article of the day for September 18, 2021 is Acamptonectes. Acamptonectes is a genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur, a type of dolphin-like marine reptile that lived during the Early Cretaceous around 130 million years ago. The first specimen—a partial adult skeleton—was discovered in Speeton, England, in 1958, but it was not formally described until 2012. Acamptonectes had unusual adaptations that made its trunk rigid, including tightly-fitting bones in the occiput (back and lower part of the skull) and interlocking vertebral centra, likely allowing it to swim at high speeds with a tuna-like form of locomotion. Other distinguishing characteristics include an extremely slender snout and unique ridges on the basioccipital bone of the braincase. As an ichthyosaur, Acamptonectes had large eye…
Month: September 2021
Hurricane Humberto (2019)
The Wikipedia article of the day for September 17, 2021 is Hurricane Humberto (2019). Hurricane Humberto was a large and powerful tropical cyclone that caused extensive wind damage in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda during September 2019. It was the eighth named storm and third hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Humberto formed on September 13, then paralleled the eastern coastline of Florida until September 16, when it turned sharply northeastward and became a hurricane. It reached peak intensity as a Category 3 hurricane on September 18. After its center passed within 65 miles (100 km) of Bermuda on September 19, the storm transitioned the next day to a potent extratropical cyclone. Rip currents killed one person in Florida and another in North Carolina. In Bermuda,…
MySQL Binary Logs äter upp diskutrymme
Hade problem med att utrymmet på disken på min webbserver åts upp i alarmerande hastighet. Disken är totalt på 60Gb och ledigt utrymme minskade med ungefär 1% per dag utan att jag förstod varför. Jag kunde se på mina backuper att de var ganska konstanta i storlek så det var klart att det var något annat som tog upp plats. Det visade sig vara MySQL:s Binary Logs som växte ordentligt. Jag hittade dock ett sätt att rensa äldre loggar så att jag kunde frigöra utrymme på disken. Det var tyvärr en manuell operation och jag får se om jag hittar något sätt att automatisera detta på så jag inte fyller upp disken i framtiden.
Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC)
The Wikipedia article of the day for September 16, 2021 is Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC). The Roman withdrawal from Africa in 255 BC was the attempt by the Roman Republic to rescue the survivors of their defeated expeditionary force to Carthaginian Africa (in what is now north-eastern Tunisia) during the First Punic War. A force of 390 warships fought and defeated 200 Carthaginian vessels off Cape Hermaeum (the modern Cape Bon or Ras ed-Dar), north of the town of Aspis. The Carthaginians had 114 of their ships captured, together with their crews, and 16 sunk. Most modern historians assume there were no Roman losses. The Romans landed in Aspis – where the Roman survivors of the previous year’s invasion were…