Meet you back here in half an hour.
What are you going to do?
What I always do - stay out of trouble... Badly.
Sunday, May 30
Into Each Season Of Doctor Who Some Suck Must Fall
Or so it would seem. And this week's episode is all that. 14 minutes in and it's so bad that I've stopped watching five times.
Update: Okay, it picked up a bit after that. But a very clumsily-written episode, which is particularly bad because it hit a couple of very important points for the season story arc.
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Because I require logins to comment, I don't get a lot of spam. In fact, until today it's only happened one time. But the guy who seems to be spamming you today has also been spamming me.
I've deleted four, and I just switched one to "hidden", because of this: I want to ban him, but I can't figure out what to use. He presumably has a mee.nu account and is logged in, but he isn't using his login name, or his login page, or anything which the ban page accepts as an ID.
It's kind of like black magic where you need to know someone's true name in order to cast a death spell on him. How do I figure out this guy's true name in order to add him to the ban list?
(I assume you're probably going to use the Pixy ban hammer on him, but I'm reporting this because I think it's a bug: there's no way in the admin comments page for me to find out the true identity of a commenter.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, June 02 2010 12:04 PM (+rSRq)
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Yep, good point - I'll get that fixed up.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 02 2010 02:26 PM (PiXy!)
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Meanwhile, that user has been banned.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 02 2010 03:28 PM (PiXy!)
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This new season has been a little patchy. Definitely a very different take on the Doctor.
That he isn't the only solution to the problem. Some terrific setups and ideas but very uneven.
I'll weather the ups and downs anyways.
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Thursday, May 27
Tuesday, May 25
Friday, May 14
M-Series Update
Order placed - 61.5% discount, yay!
Between this and the great deal I got on Akane Mk III, we should be good for a couple of years.
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Hi Pixy. Sorry to bother you again, but apparently my "bandwidth has been exceeded" at my blog.
For such a little read blog, I get a lot of spam traffic. Any ideas on what I can to try and stop this from happening in the future?
Posted by: physics geek at Sunday, May 23 2010 07:34 AM (llWHs)
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In fact, I do have an idea.
I have just added a new server with 100TB of bandwidth. I'm setting it up as a caching proxy server, such that (for example) http://cache.physicsgeek.mu.nu/images/jessica_alba_topless.jpg will fetch the image from the caching server with its near limitless cheap bandwidth rather than direct from the main server.
It's not ready yet, but should be up and running in a week or so.
In the meantime, I've given you another 100GB a month.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, May 23 2010 01:42 PM (PiXy!)
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Wednesday, May 12
Durarararararara
Wait, what? It doesn't suck? It's by the same author and director as
Baccano?Okay, sold.
Update: Episode 12. Roofle!
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It's one of the few shows i am following this year. I could not get into k-on.
Posted by: Penfold at Thursday, May 13 2010 05:12 AM (1PeEC)
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That's entirely understandable - it just means you're a bad person.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 13 2010 08:58 AM (PiXy!)
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Is that all, i thought i would lose my otaku ranking if i did not like it.
Posted by: Penfold at Friday, May 14 2010 12:11 AM (1PeEC)
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Kidding aside, I think
K-On! is the shaping up as the best cute-girls-being-cute show since
Azumanga Daioh. Season one was very good, and season two shows the promise of being even better.
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Where'd The Internet Go?
I can only reach small randomly distributed parts of it. Fortunately including mu.nu/mee.nu.
Can't get to isitdownorjustme.com, which is alanic.
Hmm. Seems to be my ISP. My backup connection works.
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Have you tried using a different DNS? It might be just the DNS servers of your ISP
Open DNS is:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
if you want to give it a shot.
Posted by: Teresa at Wednesday, May 12 2010 03:20 AM (ZCuP9)
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The weird part is that DNS is working fine. The sites resolve, but won't load.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 12 2010 03:37 AM (PiXy!)
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Also that I can get here with no problems.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 12 2010 03:38 AM (PiXy!)
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I think it's the BakaBT curse in operation. (BakaBT's server works today but the tracker is down. Except that I can reach the tracker; it's just not matchmaking me with anyone.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 12 2010 04:10 AM (+rSRq)
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Re OpenDNS, there have been cases where they've overridden and redirected particular URLs. I don't trust them.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 12 2010 04:13 AM (+rSRq)
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Got up this morning and everything was working. Almost makes me afraid to touch anything...
BakaBT were setting up DDoS mitigation yesterday, and it mitigated the tracker to death. Looks like they've fixed it now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 12 2010 11:23 AM (PiXy!)
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Pixynator? Problem over at The Pond... I just had a spamflood, and now my comments are wonky again. The sidebar is showing comments from 4/21 and older... help?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, May 12 2010 04:59 PM (JWQqT)
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Should be feeling better now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 12 2010 05:47 PM (PiXy!)
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It is indeed, thank you very kindly!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, May 12 2010 11:36 PM (JWQqT)
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I despise spammers. If you're interested, Pixy, I've got a selection of of them junked in my "edit comments" page, almost all of them linking to the same website.
Of course, they've screwed up my comments sidebar, too.
Halp?
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Tuesday, May 11
Midori & Momoko
New servers this week: Midori and Momoko.
These will replace Mikan; the reason is that SoftLayer are finally running their elusive "triple double" special at a time when I can take advantage of it.
Generally, they run either a double-memory-and-disk special
or a double-bandwidth special. I got Mikan on a double-bandwidth special. That means it has 4TB of bandwidth (which is pooled with Akane/Aoi), but only 2GB of memory and a single 250GB disk (I later added another 1TB drive).
With the "triple double" special I get double memory, disk, and bandwidth for no extra charge, so the plan is to get two low-end boxes like that (Xeon 3050 dual-core servers). That will give us 10TB of primary bandwidth (as well as the 100TB of media cache thingy bandwidth we have from Kurumi) which should keep us happy for a while.
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Sunday, May 09
What I Don't Understand...
Is how anyone could run a video through a comb filter
backwards and not notice.
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There is a story here...I'm sure of it.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wednesday, May 12 2010 12:24 AM (EJaOX)
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I wonder why this particular post seems to attract spam?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, August 25 2012 10:37 PM (+rSRq)
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I've got a theory, it must be bunnies.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 26 2012 01:05 AM (PiXy!)
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Princess Chuchu
Just finished watching
Princess Tutu. Quite remarkable.
Very highly recommended - for the story, for the music, for the characters, and for Nanae Katou's remarkable performance as Ahiru. Of course it doesn't hurt that I'm a Tchaikovsky fan from way back.
Four ugly ducklings out of four.
Quack!
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