It's just not cricket
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-10-06 07:33:15 - Graham EllisWe love living in Melksham and it's so easy to do net searches for resources in the town; perhaps we should be thankful that our forebearers loved it too and never left to set up an identically-named city elsewhere in the world. By contrast, we've found it very hard to search for bathroom suppliers in Bath.
We've also found it - err - somewhat interesting to find information about the open source piece of software called cricket - it's is a "high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data" which is great for watching over network traffic, web site trends and the like. Do a search for it, and what do you find - pages about sports and insects.
On a slightly more serious note - if anyone reading this has experience in installing, maintaining and configuring cricket (I know I have the odd regular reader who might), can they let me know. I'm looking to help someone out and it's a bit too much of a niche even for me. Thanks!