MekTrix 5.1

Some numbers, from site access logs: Date range: 2004/09 to 2005/11 Size: 500MB Time to parse with awstats: 5.5 hours Files served: 2,237,523 Pages served to non-bots: 62,759 Front page hits: 4,553 Bandwidth used by visitors: ~35GB Bandwidth used by bots:…

Albert of Danbooru noticed Shimmie, and linked to it in his blog.

An imageboard, because danbooru + ruby-on-rails + postgresql were all being pains to install so I gave up after 4 hours, and had the basics of my own done from scratch in a half.

Another expo, much like the last.

According to SIMS (the school management program, which I wasn’t supposed to be looking at), I eat andwiches, and my sister comes to school by bicycle ._.

No entries for ages as I’ve had the most kickass illness ever~ First there was coughing, pretty much non-stop, for about a week.

First I was in a generic modern city, which was being attacked by non-specific monsters, possibly something to do with a Matrix remake - Neo was there.

Ho hum, at least this shows the automatic recovery systems work - I was back online and serving before I’d noticed PuTTY had disconnected~ I’m also back on the front page of hits for “Shish”, above MSDN \o/

Off on a wander~ Leg 1: Straight North: Figuring I had no real plan of where to go, I decided to see how far I could go in one direction.

A conversational summary, merely as background for part II: o) Sister was watching internet TV o) Mother requests computer for work o) Sister refuses to get off despite good reason o) Mother yells o) Sister storms off in a hissy fit o) I point out that ma…

So several months after getting into xclannad* so I can run Kanon SE, I finally get round to ordering a copy as a birthday present for myself (up to now I'd been working with the free demos).

Just as I was getting into the swing of learning new, interesting, and useful things, school comes along :( I've learned more Japanese through 4 days of Slime Forest than I have from 4 years of German lessons in school.

So I have a list of links; each has a bottom margin of 16px.

On the day I leave, the modem dies -__- Two week downtime, new record…

I’ll be in the lake district for two weeks from tomorrow; The server goes from powercut to all services running automatically in about 5 minutes, so hopefully it’ll survive the time alone…

Just as I was getting a load of traffic looking for E17 transparency, my router decides to reset to factory defaults, and I have a half hour of downtime reconfigging everything – the longest downtime since the server got wiped & reinstalled -_- And then it

I found Wavemage, via him doing the music for blender’s “Orange” project.

The Last Days of FoxHound manages to stick to most of the MGS canon, make fun of it, and be more scientifically accurate

Some russian dude brute forced a non-admin account on my server, then didn't manage to do any damage as it's fully patched and firewalled off in both directions~ Everything's been reinstalled for paranoia anyway, which took about an hour to get re-set-up,…

Another two months uptime, another powercut :| But this time, 5. 10 seconds of power for every 20 minutes of darkness… But it finally prompted me to discover the useful combination of screen and cron’s @reboot timer, to allow various user-level services to

Firstly, my desktop had it's first non-hardware-related reboot in years, due to SVGAlib messing with the display.

Twas quite the medium sized affair, small enough to see in a couple of hours, yet big enough to warrant the 10 pound entry.

I've set up an icecast/ogg server with music database and web front end, so I (and anyone else, for that matter), can listen to my music collection from anywhere online \o/ ED for less hate> People fail at finding good software; Even when offering bittorr…

Now not only is my site banned by websense, but now I'm banned personally too, by my own school...

On the one day that I really, really needed my site up so that I could grab some of my A-Level coursework off it, some cockwhore at websense decided my site was a games site, thus putting me on their blacklist >:( And I made a small new app; dist -- becau…

The trip to london to meet MT forumites went ok.

Several things added / changed: My HTML is now correct; a typo was putting me to the #1 spot on google far too often, and now it’s fixed I’m back to the ~10th page where I belong.

I’ve suddenly started getting ~50 hits a day looking for “skatepark” and “jackass” images.

Despite the ass of copy protection, the game rocks, and provides a handy alternative theme for those opposed to vomit orange ^_^

Walking round at midnight with a bowl of pasta, in the dark, I notice a chair pulled out in front of the door – not with my eyes, but with my toes.

Being forced through a full english roast dinner makes me realise just how much I dislike them -- It's come to the stage where I get full up just by looking at roast potatoes; having had them so often, my quota for them is full.

Someone was looking for a random avatar script, someone else said I had one; no more came of that conversation, but I saw it in the logs and decided it was time to make a proper random avatar host.

Ithil, the guy who beat the n00b out of me, has come to (blog post corrupted) On the slacker note; This thursday I was loaned one of four physics revision book by the teacher, on the condition that I use it and don’t slack off as always.

Not sure what it was, but it caused the modem to be getting a signal without anybody to talk to on the other end :/ And as I type, it dies again >:(

Most people who've talked linux with me'll have noticed that I'm an enlightenment fanboy; recently, my acts of fanboyism have been getting so great I fear I may have a compulsive software pimping disorder - even spreading to such things as mplayer and fir…

It would seem that when “combined” is an undefined log format, rather than throw an “undefined log format” error, apache simply writes out the word “combined” every time a website is hit >:(

The gentoo server became mysteriously full, which prompted me to finally move to debian...

Cleaning out my room reveals: o) A collection of dead light bulbs o) A collection of McDonalds' straws (they're wider, and so better for shooting things) o) Hundreds of unfinished to-do lists o) A stamp collection o) A list of netware & webmail logins / p…

omgwtf.

No, no more downtime… but MRTG stopped working?

Mid way through setting up dhcp and other networky stuff, the power cut out, and the temporarily fragile network fell apart… It’s being redone with more cool stuff, like putting the server in it’s own /24 to keep it and the desktops safely apart \o/ ED> A…

I spent 3 hours battling with deus ex's copy protection, trying multiple CD drives (5), updating motherboard drivers, reinstalling 20 odd times; each time I'd get a crash in what seemed to be a runtime generated dll.

Trying to find the original research that I'm working with for psychology is much harder than I'd like - I'm looking for some quite old studies from 1900s to 1990s, but all I can find is the journals for the past 3 years being sold for 20 pound each...

After 3 months uptime, I accidentally pulled the plug on the server while reaching for one of the other cables >_<

Such an ass feature in practice, runtime magic quotes especially - automatically protecting things going into an SQL statement may have a use, but adding slashes to things that come OUT of the database?

I pretty much accidentally went to see the mad capsule markets yesterday when my sister's friend got ill; too much noise and not enough music for my tastes, but it was fun anyway.

I was reading men in hats, got bored waiting for the new kernel to compile, so I looked down the list of keenspot comics, to see General Protection Fault.

So I took down the content from my angelfire site, and redirected here.

Now I no longer have to edit raw html every time I want to update the news thing on the front page.

I woke up early and got back to sleep at the time I should get up, wake up #2 was late.