No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
Thursday, April 29
To Infinity And Beyond!
I also just upgraded my backup internet connection to my ISP's new unlimited plan. Even so, running flat out, it will take nearly four months to fill up Sugar.
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Because I have switched machines and I'm too lazy to go dig through my old machine for email addys at this minute - decided to leave you a comment instead.
Just ran across a comment issue (or not depending on how you wanted things set up) over at Boudicca's place. I was putting a youtube url in her comments and got a comment submission error. Not sure if that was what was intended or not but thought I should mention it.
Posted by: Teresa at Tuesday, May 04 2010 01:35 AM (ZCuP9)
Sugar arrived today. She's my third little NAS box to go with (naturally) Pepper and Salt. Pepper and Salt are Acer Easystore boxes that I bought empty and filled up with spare drives; they work so well that I wanted to get another - but they stopped making that model and replaced it with a Windows Home Server system, which apparently also works well but isn't what I want.
So I ended up ordering a LaCie 5big Network thingy. Then discovered that they don't make those any more either. Then discovered that they'd replaced it with the LaCie 5big Network 2 thingy, which is the same but three times faster. Which is a definite plus: The one problem with the old Easystore - and most of the other first-generation mini-NASes - is that it's kind of slow; for the v2 LaCie replaced the 500MHz Arm processor with a 1.2GHz model.
It arrived today. Yay!
It's apparently made of cast iron. It's a little bitty thing: 6.8 x 7.7 x 8.6 inches (from the spec sheet) but the box weighs as much as a full-size PC.
Update: Oh. I thought it was white. It's not, it's silver. Looking at the pictures on the website again, I realise that that's what they're showing - they just photographed it on white surroundings.
Update: Crap. It sounds like a can of marbles. That means it's using Hitachi drives. That sucks.
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Did you shorten the time-to-live on the mee.nu/mu.nu DNS listings pending the server move? And not restore them after? Because since the move, most of my accesses get "server can't be found" on the first try.
(And BTW, thanks a *BUNCH* for pointing out GOG. That was JUST what I needed!)
Posted by: Old Grouch at Wednesday, April 28 2010 06:48 AM (LVagT)
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No, I didn't change them; we kept the same IP addresses this time around and just moved the VPSes to a new hardware node. Given that will be the way of things from now on, I can probably lengthen them and see if that will help.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 28 2010 10:46 AM (PiXy!)
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And you're welcome! GoG is pretty awesome, though they have some gaps in their lineup still. (Railroad Tycoon! X-Com!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 28 2010 10:47 AM (PiXy!)
This week we have
Weeping Angels and an
earlier version of
River Song a.k.a.
Mrs Doctor in a
two-parter. It's like a Steven Moffett housewarming party.
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Pixy Is Watching, Autumn Edition, Part 2
The Castle of Cagliostro.
Takes a little to get going, but once it does, it never falters.
Steven - I did say it takes a little while to get going.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 25 2010 01:59 PM (PiXy!)
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I don't know, personally, I was in love with the movie by the end of the credits, and that was in raw Japanese back in 1991. I think it's one of those shows where you're either on board with the aesthetic - that combination of headlong exhilaration and infinite-focus mono no aware - or you're not.
It doesn't have all the sci-fi or fantasy bells and whistles that later Miyazaki movies have to offer, it's just pre-Ghibli Miyazaki & a kinder, gentler Lupin experience.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Tuesday, April 27 2010 09:10 AM (jwKxK)
It is a fun movie, but I can understand people not being keen on it. It was definitely entertaining for me, but I still would not go out of my way to watch it even after seeing it for the first time - the only reason I actual did see it was because the friend I went to the convention with wanted to see the showing. And the fact the the character models made me want to watch the movie next to Porco Rosso was a bit disconcerting.
Also, for me, listening to the dub as oppose to the sub would be a surreal experience after listening to the Pioneer/Geneon release of the TV series, since practically the entire staff changed (Only one of the English language VAs came back - voicing a different character.).
Non sequitor - sadly, my attempt at trying to keep my entertainment and my politics separate took another blow this last week, since the (now former) voice of the GEICO Gecko is a VA who worked on anime dubs and still work on video game dubs. Makes subs more attractive all the time...
C.T.
Posted by: cxt217 at Tuesday, April 27 2010 11:27 AM (9nxXd)
It may have been the guy doing the voice-overs instead of the voice of the Gecko, but since the VA behind the scheme still has anime and video game dubs credits (And apparently was not shy about remarking on his performance on Twitter.), it annoys me at the disappearance of entertainment and politics.
And I did not know there was a soundtrack to MOM...
C.T.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, April 28 2010 01:39 PM (9nxXd)
It's the best book ever written on managing software development teams. (The Mythical Man Month is the best book ever written on managing software development projects.)
Used copies in good condition are going for $200 and up! Get that sucker into reprint, now.
The aptly titled Spirit of Wonder. You can't go wrong with a good old-fashioned romance story where the hero
blows up the Moon.
Kind of.
No, really, just not how you'd expect.
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They did blow up the Moon in Gurren-Lagann, or at least the outsides of it...
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, April 24 2010 04:49 AM (k8IP2)
2Miss China's Ring is one of my favorites. They've got the whole series over at BakaBT, though one of the OVAs isn't subbed. (It's a short, anyway.)
The other main ep is The Scientific Boys Club (I think that's the ep's name) about a crew of guys who go to Mars in the 1950s using an outdated "etheric current" theory which nonetheless works. Miss China has only a cameo in that one, but it's a good cameo. (Boobzorz FTW!)
Posted by: atomic_fungus at Saturday, April 24 2010 08:26 AM (Rcclv)
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Yep, I plan to watch Scientific Boys Club later today.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 25 2010 02:39 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 24 2010 12:40 AM (PiXy!)
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If we've run out of goddesses, we can do androids now?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 24 2010 02:39 AM (+rSRq)
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My home machines are schoolgirl goddesses (originally it was more restrictive than that, but I ran out of names). My portable widgets are miscellaneous moeblobs.
The servers are named for anime girls named for colours and starting with the letters A, K or M: Aoi, Midori, Akane (akane-iro = crimson), Mikan (mikan-iro = mandarin orange), Kurumi (walnut), Kitsune, Ai, Momoko, Kikyo. The primary servers start with A, secondary with M, and special-purpose servers with K.
Why?
Because!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 24 2010 03:14 AM (PiXy!)
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I only used this scheme once, when Ani-nouto was on a rented dedi at PacRack. The host was called "mitsuki"
(after Mitsuki II of Dual), almost in line with other Animeblogger hosts "noe" (TT), "nodoka" (Saki), only with a retro tint. But my own systems date much further back, so they share a pool of LoTR plants, e.g. from elanor to lebethron.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, April 24 2010 03:41 AM (/ppBw)
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Also, Kurumi > Sawako. Evirus and Major Argana agree (I updated the post later).
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, April 24 2010 03:45 AM (/ppBw)
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...but I like some of those AV starlets named Kurumi! I think they belong in your service room, I mean, "server room".
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Saturday, April 24 2010 08:36 AM (fpXGN)
Pete - You are wrong. Sawako > Dai-Gurren Lagann > Any of the girls of Hidamari > Any of the girls of K-On! > Any of the girls of Sora no Woto > 57% of recent anime > Kurumi > The other 42% of recent anime > Evangelion (which sucks and anyone who likes it is a bad person).
I have a proof of this using the latest results from the field of hyperfinite moemetamathematics, but unfortunately the margins of this blog are too small to contain it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 24 2010 11:16 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 24 2010 04:16 PM (+rSRq)
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I don't know, the robot-maids in Steel Angel Kurumi might qualify as some sort of minor-league shinto kami. They're activated by spiritual power & seem to fit within the objects-become-god class of shinto divinity. Like trees or rocks, just more... animate.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Tuesday, April 27 2010 09:17 AM (jwKxK)
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Kurumi is plenty round enough. (Rather, if she were to get rounder, she'd have to diet...)
I actually enjoyed that show. Just don't read the manga... it was one of the few times where a story was significantly improved by throwing the manga continuity away.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wednesday, April 28 2010 01:26 PM (pWQz4)
Well, on the plus side, the "more" tag worked this time.
Posted by: atomic_fungus at Friday, April 23 2010 01:13 PM (Rcclv)
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Yeah, I can't reproduce the bug with new posts, so I think it's an issue with posts created with an earlier version of the software - I need to run a database cleanup.
I'm going to get a copy of the database and test my cleanup code, and if it looks good I'll run it on the live database this weekend.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, April 23 2010 03:34 PM (PiXy!)
Since you're working on this stuff anyway, here's another that may have fallen through the cracks:
If you take a post which has comments and change its category, then when you open the category listing that post will be there but its comments won't be.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 24 2010 02:40 AM (+rSRq)
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Huh. That really, really shouldn't happen. The way things work behind the scenes should make that unpossible.
I'll take a look.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 24 2010 03:15 AM (PiXy!)
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And while we're hunting down esoteric bugs, something in Wonderduck's page format prevents me from clicking on any main page links from my Droid's browser. I can only assume it's using a specially modified version of Chrome, but it doesn't seem to happen at Chizumatic or at my own place.
Well now that's odd... Clicking a link in his sidebar worked, then after retreating to the main page, all the other links worked. Some confounding combination of formatting and browser?
Posted by: Will at Saturday, April 24 2010 05:35 PM (3BrvJ)
I need to spend some time on improved spam-walloping componentry, but I'm also planning to add another server into the mix, this time Kurumi. Kurumi will deliver us another 100TB of bandwidth to add to the 6TB we currently have (of which we're using 5TB, so we'll need the extra pretty soon).
Kurumi will act as an automatic media-file cache thingy; image and file downloads will be redirected to Kurumi which will act as an intelligent caching proxy. It might even do more than that if I can get a stable VPN working between the servers, but it will do that at least.
I'd completely forgotten this series until Steven reminded me and I dug it out and took a look.
This thing is awesome.
Why it wasn't all over the blogs last year I don't know - or maybe it was, I dunno, I was dead most of last year. As far as I can tell no-one has licensed it yet either, which is just crazy.
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It was all over blogs. Heck, I posted about it. Hmm, I'm beginning to see a pattern here.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thursday, April 22 2010 09:30 AM (/ppBw)
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If the pattern is that I'm a year behind everyone else, don't have time to read blogs, and then pick up on things only when Steven does, then yeah.
Good to know it didn't go unnoticed at the time!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, April 22 2010 10:50 AM (PiXy!)
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Just followed the link on your blog to Aroduc. I understand why I didn't catch on to this last year, being dead and all, but I wonder how I missed it in '08, when I wasn't... Oh. Yeah, if I hadn't discovered it by August, then from August '08 onwards I was toast. Being a Miffy production it wasn't on AnimeSuki, so I just never noticed it.
Well, at least I get to watch it now!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, April 22 2010 12:19 PM (PiXy!)
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Sunday, April 18
Move Completed
We're now live on Akane (Mk III, I think) a.k.a Aoi (temporarily, because I can't have two servers with the same name).
Question: Is it any faster?
Answer: Dammit, I didn't grab any stats before the move. But this page is loading *way* faster than the last time I checked.
Answer Part Two: Oh yeah, this baby flies!
Update: All the CPanel licenses got deactivated, but it only took a couple of minutes to get them reactivated. I was half expecting that to happen anyway.
