CAN I BE OF ASSISTANCE?
Tuesday, October 10
ZOMG
200GB/2TB $9.95.
I'm assuming that they're banking on a 100:1 oversell - which is probably reasonable. I wonder what they would do if I actually started using that 2TB every month...
Update: Seek and ye shall find. Dreamhost blog: The Truth About Overselling.
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Bah, I know all about the technical side of overselling. After all, Linux overcommits memory (oh noes! horrors!). Nonetheless, there's overselling and there's overselling. After certain treshold, what they do is not sustainable and ends with the meltdown.
In any case, Dreamhost's indictment lists more than just interesting provisioning practices. Look at this:
http://anime.jefflawson.net/2006/10/06/autumn-nap/
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, October 10 2006 02:51 AM (9imyF)
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Oh bah, never mind the above. I see your comment now.
BTW, Read Dreamhost's "About Us" page. It's a riot. I can just imagine two Claremont dropouts running the whole shebang on an old Dell with UML virtual systems out of their dorm. Refreshing honesty about everything being virtual (no wonder oversubscribtion has to be so great).
Oh yeah, http://www.chiyochan.net/ is hosted at Dreamhost. Apparently it was a hobby of one of the founders.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, October 10 2006 02:59 AM (9imyF)
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Yup. That's where I came from.
I have a good use for heaps of cheap bandwidth and disk space - even if it's not 100% reliable - but I doubt Dreamhost would be happy with me using 20TB of disk and 200TB of bandwidth a month.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 10 2006 03:01 AM (FRalS)
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I host with Dreamhost, and I must say I am quite happy with them... Tho, I don't think I have as beefy a requirement as you do. :) Their honesty is what hooked me. I don't mind when hosts have issues, but damn come out and tell us! Ya know!?
Posted by: Slack at Tuesday, October 10 2006 06:03 PM (cVd8b)
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Yeah I got a mate on Dreamhost and he's recommended them.
Posted by: Tanj at Wednesday, October 11 2006 12:04 AM (jndMe)
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Monday, October 09
Relatively Painless
Moved everything across from the old servers to the new ones. And it all seems to be working, except for The Jawa Report, which I'll fix now.
50 gigabytes of assorted crep, dozens of applications, over a hundred databases. And, apart from MT Blacklist buggering itself, not all that much went wrong.
Funny thing was that this blog wouldn't work. I thought that a security option in PHP was tripping me up, since accessing minx.cc directly worked fine.
Then it started to work all by itself. Huh.
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It's a timeout.
Need to work on that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 03:59 AM (YnQfp)
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Unfortunately, things which start to work all by themselves often
stop working again, all by themselves.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, October 09 2006 04:19 AM (+rSRq)
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And indeed it does.
There's a query that's taking too long to run. I'll see if I can hunt it down.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 04:28 AM (YnQfp)
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Let's see how this works.
I'll give it a few minutes to flush itself out of the cache, and try again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 04:46 AM (YnQfp)
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It might be better, but it's not
right. It still runs like a slug if you visit my blog while the MySQL backups are running. Admittedly that's only two minutes, twice a day, but it shouldn't slow it down
that much.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 04:59 AM (YnQfp)
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Hi Pixy,
I tried to add a post on Ace but it failed. I don't think he cut me off yet because I was able to log in.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Posted by: Retired Geezer at Tuesday, October 10 2006 10:30 AM (IjfHa)
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You need to log in at blog2.mu.nu to post to Ace's blog now. If you log in at blog.mu.nu, it will save your post (and it did), but it won't be able to update the blog because it's on a different server.
It's all happy now. ;)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 10 2006 11:15 AM (YnQfp)
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Sunday, October 08
Cool Computer Facts
Number 87:
Disk drives are not supposed to go "beep".
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That... sounds ominous. Like a clown has taken up residence in your HD.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, October 08 2006 08:39 PM (CJ5+Y)
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Sorry to bug you, Pixy, but I'm seeming to have some problems logging into http://blog.mu.nu . I'm getting the following message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.36 Server at www.blog.mu.nu Port 80
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, October 09 2006 02:42 AM (YWRlP)
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That means that your DNS hasn't updated yet.
If you want to manually tweak your hosts file, the new address for blog.mu.nu is 208.101.63.192.
Same for wonderduck.mu.nu if you have any problems with that.
But it should all sort itself out in a few hours.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 03:07 AM (YnQfp)
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It's sorted. Thanky!
On a different note, I sent you an e-mail (to the bloglets address); is there a different e-mail I should be using? If so, could you drop me a line to let me know what it is?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, October 09 2006 03:42 AM (YWRlP)
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andrew -at- pixymisa -dot- net is a better one to use. The bloglets address is absolutely flooded with spam. :(
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, October 09 2006 03:58 AM (YnQfp)
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Saturday, October 07
Bah2
The failure stopped being intermittent.
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Posted by: Andrew at Sunday, October 08 2006 08:21 AM (81C4m)
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You get his wallet, I'll get his phaser and smoking boots.
Posted by: Kristopher at Tuesday, October 10 2006 11:19 AM (O5Ju8)
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Thursday, October 05
Bah
Intermittent thermal-related failure of your southbridge sucks.
Mostly it looks like a drive failure, but not always. The neatest one was when the drive was working but the keyboard locked up.
So I can either move to Antarctica, or start looking for a new notebook.
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Posted by: Kristopher at Thursday, October 05 2006 10:33 AM (O5Ju8)
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Hmm. Water cooling for laptops now thats a surefire seller.
Just in time for the new Core 2 based laptops. Dual core 64bit goodness.
Excellent timing. :)
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, October 05 2006 08:25 PM (t8tOu)
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I hear penguins are delicious this time of year.
Posted by: TallDave at Friday, October 06 2006 03:08 PM (oyQH2)
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Easy Fighter!
So the DVD release of
Hyperdoll has nothing in the way of extras?
That's such a shame, since the old laserdisc release* has a LIVE ACTION VERSION on the flip side.
Bwahahahahaha!
* That I happen to own.
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Heavens! So, um... how DO they keep that suit on in live-action?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, October 05 2006 09:57 AM (6YRS5)
Posted by: Kristopher at Thursday, October 05 2006 10:37 AM (O5Ju8)
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I would think that'd
hurt when you remove it! Yeowtch!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, October 05 2006 01:27 PM (YWRlP)
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Actually, it's quite common for them to use double-sided sticky tape to hold costume pieces on. I'm sure it's uncomfortable just to wear, and even more so to remove, but it's pretty standard.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, October 05 2006 04:33 PM (+rSRq)
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It's not that bad when you don't have hair in the area, if my experience with stimulation electrodes is any indication. Once upon a time, I carried one home because a nurse forgot to take it off. It was on a patch which I shaved for the application. You just can't keep them on forever because the skin needs fresh air.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Friday, October 06 2006 01:06 AM (9imyF)
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One of my friends has a Polaroid that shows what was hidden in her Playboy centerfold: tape, and lots of it, holding both skin and lingerie in place.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Friday, October 06 2006 03:40 AM (0/vcb)
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Wednesday, October 04
Nyo Is War!
16 episodes? Oh, sure, 16 episodes in the
original series.
And another 104 in the second series.
And another 48 short episodes in the third series.
And then there's the Summer Special, the Christmas Special, the OAV, the Movie...
Update: 104 episodes at twelve minutes each. The first series was actually designed as advertising, but it became a hit in its own right, leading to a veritable explosion of cute.
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One of the things I'm finding amusing is the way the series makes fun of the shop's customers. Ordinarily you'd think that would be a no-no for what amounts to an elaborate advertising campaign, but since nothing in the series is serious, it fits right in -- and apparently didn't offend.
There's the over-sophisticated long-haired guy, and the scared kid, and the two fat ones. None of them are portrayed in flattering light. But I think the only character who is portrayed in a flattering light is Puchiko. (Nyu!)
I liked how Dejiko used her eye lasers to zap some (non-)customers who were leaving without buying anything.
In the extras there was an outright actual advertisement for "Gamers" which included yet another little girl. This one was blonde and was maybe dressed up as a bear? I'm not sure. Anyway, she's not actually in the eps I've got. She is named "Piyoko" and is voiced by Hayashibara Megumi, and I think I've missed something good.
Just what kind of animal is she supposed to be?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, October 04 2006 05:17 PM (+rSRq)
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Yep ... Steve is having a kawaii-gasm ....
Posted by: Kristopher at Thursday, October 05 2006 10:36 AM (O5Ju8)
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I believe that piyoko is supposed to be a panda, she's also got her own series, the name of which escapes me at the moment
Posted by: ultimaflare99 at Saturday, October 14 2006 04:52 AM (PSXtS)
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Tuesday, October 03
Compare And Contrast
The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 29, Paragraph 3:
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Discuss.
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Nothing really to discuss. If those losers at the UN seriously try to push this crap in the US, we will hang the ones too stupid to flee from lamp posts, as well as any local politicians that make the grave error of supporting them, and shove that building of theirs into Turtle Bay.
The UN generally has exactly one response to violent oppostion ... they run away or hide.
Posted by: Kristopher at Tuesday, October 03 2006 10:30 AM (O5Ju8)
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The UN's mission has become the preservation and advancement of the UN. It is, in fact, the only thing they have done successfully.
I say kick them out of the country and don't give them another dime of US taxpayer money.
As for Turtle Bay - declare it a Superfund sight. Ideas can be toxic too.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Tuesday, October 03 2006 08:47 PM (DdRjH)
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There's still a UN?
Has anyone looked into why?
Posted by: TallDave at Thursday, October 05 2006 11:35 PM (H8Wgl)
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Monday, October 02
Fractured Furry Tails
Yeah, I'm supposed to be doing a server migration right now, but it's a long weekend so I have plenty of time. [
Had plenty of time. Wasn't expecting it to take 20 hours to do the CPanel account transfer. The migration is now set for next weekend.] Also, I'm feeling kind of lazy, and I'm waiting for the forums to finish copying.
So.
We have the Three Musketeers, only the role of Athos appears to have been taken over Little Red Riding Hood (with tame wolf in tow).* Only now she's Akazukin the Ninja Girl, with a magic card-operated cellphone (shades of Pretty Cure, though thankfully sans irritating alien blobules) that doubles as a Garden Supa Centre and photon cannon.
And she's here to fight the forces of evil, which so far consist of Cinderella, Puss in Boots, the male half of Hansel and Gretel, and their army of hideous bio-mechanical bug-monsters.
I'm sure that the second episode will make sense of all this.
Oh, and Athos-chan is supposed to be fourteen. According the the website, all the main characters are supposed to be fourteen. She looks about six. Huh?
Update: And Porthos... Snow White appears.
And the animation director should be fired. The animation is not actually bad, but it is inconsistent. In scenes where the animators have been paying attention and the characters are on-model, they look about six... maybe eight, tops. In scenes where they are slacking, they look twelve, maybe even the supposed fourteen. And their proportions vary between scenes, and even within scenes. So they are clearly too short to easily stand at the kitchen sink and wash the dishes (without standing on one of those little steps that kids use) - but that is exactly what they do. And one moment they are little kids sitting on chairs at the cafe, with their shoulders clearly below the top of the chair back, and just seconds later their shoulders are just as clearly above the top of the chair back. And then some actual little kids show up - and some adults as well - and the whole scene just looks out of kilter.
Meh.
At least for scenes involving just the main characters (both the good guys and the bad guys), everything is skewed in the same direction (kawaii-wards).
Update: And anyway, if Souta's fourteen, how come he sleeps with a blankie?
(Fairy Musketeers Akazukin)
* Before you ask, apparently the answer is Snow White and Sleeping Beauty respectively, but they haven't appeared just yet.
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