Archive for April, 2006
then something went *frizzle*
Posted by rob in Uncategorized on April 21st, 2006
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So yeah, everything's running smoothly again until I get home from work and find my router responding very slowly, at first I thought it was just a simple networking issue but soon realised that wasn't the case. I did a simple soft reset of my router and casually waiting for all the nice pretty lights to flash and blink away. Nothing. Apart from the power light there was nothing. I stared intently at it while i reset it again. Once more i was blinking-lightless. Ok, drastic times call for drastic measures a hard reset was performed. Nada. I could've actually kicked the little black box half way to.. ermm… somewhere and back I was that pissed off.
Now I have to go and spend more money on an un-expected hardware failure. *sigh*
So, the new layout is done, i like fluidity, and i put the message box back on, still need to sort out dealing with spammers properly though, it's getting on my wick.
Out. Laters
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and everything went *poof*
Posted by rob in Uncategorized on April 16th, 2006
Haven't blogged much recently, to be honest I haven't had much time for waking people up since my last post, instead I've been a busy bee in my personal life and when I've not been doing that I've been doing techy things. As a result of the new rule I obviously won't be talking about my personal life on my blog anymore so I'll fill you in on the other side…
Yesterday my main hard drive died… it'd been clicking out every-so-often over the past few weeks but without any major sign of problems, then yesterday the BIOS panicked about overheating (yesterday was the hottest day 'round here for quite some time) and as a result just decided to trip off. Bye bye hard drive! That obviously was the final straw for my poor little data storing beast. Thank the gods for linux though, knoppix especially. I had all my info on that drive, but being a warey little chappie I do tend to spread stuff over the other two drives just in case one fails… for days like today. Ahh what I wouldn't give for a RAID array :/
So now I'm back up and running again with a rather nice 300gig SATA drive which will do me just fine because I was running out of space on my other drives… and with my net connection upgrading to 8mbit on Wednesday I kinda needed more space.
In other tech news I've been playing on my server quite a bit… upgraded to Plesk 8, installed IRSSI running as screen (if you don't know what that is, I won't explain, but it's very good). So with my recent dabblings on my server I'm thinking of making the switch to *nix a permanent one. I'm sick and tired of windows and having to do the customary re-install every year-or-so to clean out the bugs etc. Linux just ain't like that, you can compile (ahem, install) de-compile (un-install) what you need, when you need and leave everything else as-is. Yeah, sure you can install programs in windows, but I'm talking about deep kernel stuff, like the graphical environment etc. Bored of Gnome? (and let's face it, who isn't)… I'll switch to KDE 
I think I've probably sufficiently baffled most of the people who read this blog on a regular basis, but hey, I don't always bang on about the NWO all the time… I do do other stuff, probably not very interesting sounding stuff but meh, each to their own.
I'm working on a new layout too (something that I'm pretty much constantly doing). Probably put it up sometime next week. bleh