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Tuesday, March 11
W5921XA
Someone has too much time on their hands.
Someone has too much time on their hands.
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Saturday, March 08
Licensed To UI
For about a year, I've been looking for themes to license for mee.nu. I need a blog theme and a control panel theme*, and I need them to be clean, easily integrated, and based on a robust framework Bootstrap rather than some random assemblage of PSDs.
For about a year, I've been looking for themes to license for mee.nu. I need a blog theme and a control panel theme*, and I need them to be clean, easily integrated, and based on a robust framework Bootstrap rather than some random assemblage of PSDs.
Themes like this are readily available and typically cost $10-$20... Per web site. Extended licenses for developers run into hundreds or thousands of dollars. About this time last year, I found a blog theme that I was pretty happy with, and then, before I could actually buy the extended license needed, the store selling it change their license terms so that I couldn't use it anyway.**
Anyway, last year was kind of a mess and little progress was made. Last week I was poking around the theme stores again, and I found this little puppy:
Nice, clean, simple design. It had only been out a couple of weeks and had already had an update adding new features. It had the double menubar I need (so that I can have a mee.nu menu and a site menu), and a good selection of page templates.
And it cost $100. For the extended license. The one I'd been looking at last year was $850; others have been well over $1000.
So I bought it. It's called The Mosaic.
It will take a while to transmogrify it into the new mee.nu theme, but right now my version looks something like this:
I still needed a control panel theme. Again, there's no shortage of these, but they cost $500 and up. Sometimes very up. Except on the same day I found one called Lanceng. which wasn't quite what I was after and would take some work to tidy up (it's a bit noisy, visually), but was $50 for the extended license:
So I was set. And then, last night, I found SpaceLab, visually clean and $100 for the extended license:
Now I'm set. I just need to smoosh them all together somehow...
* And maybe some others, but that's the basics.
** They originally had a clause specifically allowing online services like mee.nu. They replaced it with a clause specifically disallowing online services like mee.nu. There's a loophole in the new terms that I could wriggle through, but I'm not interested in going there.
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Monday, March 03
President Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Based On Fantasy
Well, I know that, and you know that, but the interesting thing is that apparently the Washington Post knows that - because that's the title of their editorial today.
Well, I know that, and you know that, but the interesting thing is that apparently the Washington Post knows that - because that's the title of their editorial today.
And via Insty, this very insightful analysis of why the dithering idiots in Washington can't get a line on Putin:
"This is less a question of how many collection resources we throw at Russia and more broadly about the analytic challenge of understanding Putin’s mind set,” said Michael Hayden, a former CIA director and NSA director under President George W. Bush. "Here our Secretary of State is saying this is not the Cold War, it’s win-win and it’s not zero sum. But for Vladimir Putin it is zero sum. That’s what we need to understand.”
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Tuesday, February 18
Aye Aye Net
Eight years ago I signed up with iiNet for ADSL on their top-tier business plan, which gave me 1.5 mbits down, 256 kbits up, and 60GB of monthly downloads.
Eight years ago I signed up with iiNet for ADSL on their top-tier business plan, which gave me 1.5 mbits down, 256 kbits up, and 60GB of monthly downloads.
I'm still on the same plan, and paying the same amount each month. Only now I get 14 mbits down, 2 mbits up, and 1200GB of downloads.
I wish more things worked like that.
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Correction
Dog goes woof, cat goes meow.
Bird goes tweet, and mouse goes squeak.
Cow goes moo. Frog goes croak, and the elephant goes toot.
Ducks say "Hey, got any grapes?".
Dog goes woof, cat goes meow.
Bird goes tweet, and mouse goes squeak.
Cow goes moo. Frog goes croak, and the elephant goes toot.
Ducks say "Hey, got any grapes?".
And the man says no, no, no...
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Sunday, February 16
Databaseses
New database server, running MySQL (actually MariaDB 5.5.30 with TokuDB 7.1.0), Redis 2.8.6, ElasticSearch 1.0, TokuMX 1.4.0, Neo4j 2.0.1, and RabbitMQ 3.2.3.
Everything is set up with init scripts and chkconfig so that it cleanly and automatically starts up and shuts down. This was a little fiddly with Redis, which runs multiple independent services, but I hacked something together to look after that.
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So, Maybe We Can Have Nice Things?
Kickstarter got hacked.
Kickstarter got hacked.
They weren't storing passwords in plaintext, or using a reversible cypher.
They weren't storing credit card details.
They were using either multiple rounds of salted SHA-1 or bcrypt for passwords, depending on the age of the account. Both are good options.
So yes, they got hacked, but it's not a clusterfuck like Adobe or Sony, and there's no reason not to keep using the service. Just change your password first.
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Saturday, February 15
I Love Technology!
On the new server, I'm using MariaDB with TokuDB instead of the fairly old vanilla MySQL we've been running on for years (which has actually served us pretty well, except for the limitations of MyISAM).
You mean I can actually see the progress of a long-running operation? Inconceivble!
On the new server, I'm using MariaDB with TokuDB instead of the fairly old vanilla MySQL we've been running on for years (which has actually served us pretty well, except for the limitations of MyISAM).
It's little things like this that make you notice that things have really improved:
MariaDB [(none)]> show processlist;
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | Progress |
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
| 18 | root | localhost | minx | Query | 73 | Inserted about 577000 rows | load data infile '/data/load/dx_post_09.d' ignore into table dx_post | 29.534 |
| 19 | root | localhost | NULL | Query | 0 | NULL | show processlist | 0.000 |
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
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Friday, February 14
Bargains
Civilization 3, 4, and 5, and all their major expansion packs, plus Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, Pirates, and Railroads* on Humble Bundle for $15. Or Civ 3 & 4, Ace Patrol and Railroads for just $1. Installs on Steam.
Civilization 3, 4, and 5, and all their major expansion packs, plus Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, Pirates, and Railroads* on Humble Bundle for $15. Or Civ 3 & 4, Ace Patrol and Railroads for just $1. Installs on Steam.
I like Civ 3 a lot; Civ 4 less a lot, and haven't had time to play Civ 5 yet. It's only been out a... Three and a half years...
Speaking of Sid Meier, his Alpha Centauri plus Alien Crossfire expansion, on GOG for $1.49.
Also on GOG, all the D&D games for $21.10 (in case you missed the last 37 sales). That's about 500 hours of game time there.
On Google Play, not a sale at all, but Final Fantasy VI is out for Android. This means that I now own Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI (all on Android, a couple on my iPad, and III on my DS as well), VII, VIII (both on PC), X, X-2, (PS2), XI (PC), and XII (PS2). I'm only missing IX and the recent crappy ones.
Of those, I have finished X. I have gotten to the last boss in III. About half -way through X-2, but it's pretty silly. The rest, not so much.
* Not Railroad Tycoon.
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Thursday, February 06
I Can't Math, I Have The Dumb
Sooo.... That Wakfu thingy. Quite a bargain at CAD $40 for 52 episodes plus various specials dubbed and subbed on Blu-Ray, plus a t-shirt, plus PDF artbooks, plus free worldwide shipping.
Sooo.... That Wakfu thingy. Quite a bargain at CAD $40 for 52 episodes plus various specials dubbed and subbed on Blu-Ray, plus a t-shirt, plus PDF artbooks, plus free worldwide shipping.
I've been hoping they'd give an add-on for extra copies of just the disks, because I'd like to give a couple of copies as gifts. I think my nephews would love Wakfu, but they wouldn't sit still for it subtitled.
And now they have the add-on: You can one extra set of disks with your order - for an extra $60.
In absolute terms this is still a damn good deal. I've paid that much (and more) to import individual anime DVDs. But since I already have a second Kickstarter account* and (assuming I can remember the login details) I can just pledge for another $40 goodie bag, it seems like someone's miscalculated somewhere.
* Everyone needs two Ouyas.
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