Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?
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.
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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Every so often I'll log into my Linode manager (I don't need to except once in a blue moon anyway) and find that, hey, they've upped my memory/CPU/storage allocation just because.
I love those guys, especially now that the Fremont CA site isn't going up and down like a yo-yo anymore...
Posted by: GreyDuck at Wednesday, February 19 2014 06:32 AM (3m7pZ)
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That's pretty nice, GreyDuck--it's been my experience that they don't bother changing your plan for you if the new one's better and cheaper, they just keep charging you for your now-obsolete plan--the way I found out about this was looking at my hosting site and discovering that I'd been paying a plan for about two years after it was replaced with one much better. That has happened to me personally once, the place I currently work once, both with web hosting, and Verizon did it to me with Fios once (when I called about cancelling they pointed out that the plan I was on wasn't even offered any more and bumped me from 5MBps to 25.)
Posted by: RickC at Thursday, February 20 2014 11:54 AM (swpgw)
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Pixy? I need your help... there are still two rogue comments in my
"CONTENT > Comments > edit" screen that are so long that they've
pushed all the editing boxes off the edge of my screen.
I can't seem to find where to adjust the Editing screen to widen it, if
that's even possible. Could you please work your magic on this matter,
like you've done before?
Thank you muchly!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, February 24 2014 04:17 AM (zG9ns)
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'Duck, if you're using a modern browser and know a little HTML/CSS, hit F12 to bring up the developer tools. You can use those to do something clever like resize the element that's too big.
Posted by: RickC at Tuesday, February 25 2014 02:02 AM (ECH2/)
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I have no idea what I'm doing.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 01:37 PM (WZT9T)
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And now I've got a visible spam comment, too. I weep.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 01:45 PM (WZT9T)
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Sorry about that Wonderduck. I'll take a look now.
If you let me know the spammers' names or URLs I can run an automated search-and-destroy script on them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:04 PM (2yngH)
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Okay, you should be good now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:11 PM (2yngH)
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And I'm going to try something...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:11 PM (2yngH)
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:12 PM (2yngH)
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Okay, comments thingy shouldn't do that no more. (Works in Chrome, anyway.)
I'm going to replace it with a Datatables widget at some point soon. That will handle all the ick formatty stuff for me.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:38 PM (PiXy!)
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Pixy, thank you! While I don't use Chrome regularly, I'll keep it installed just in case this happens again.
You're the ginchiest!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:43 PM (WZT9T)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, February 25 2014 03:52 PM (PiXy!)
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Looks like somebody created an account just to leave comment spam
Posted by: Hypozeuxis at Monday, March 03 2014 05:01 AM (XjJZF)
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That happens occasionally. Maybe once a year, one of them spams me. (My blog requires a login to comment.)
Didn't happen today, at least not yet.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, March 03 2014 06:36 AM (+rSRq)
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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?".
And the man says no, no, no...
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Posted by: RickC at Wednesday, February 19 2014 06:11 AM (ECH2/)
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I've been looking at this post for a week now and I still don't understand what it's a reference to. Care to help me out?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, February 26 2014 06:55 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 26 2014 02:17 PM (PiXy!)
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That was excessively weird.
Posted by: RickC at Thursday, February 27 2014 02:33 AM (ECH2/)
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Posted by: RickC at Thursday, February 27 2014 12:28 PM (swpgw)
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Oh c'mon... the duck song is great!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, February 27 2014 04:23 PM (3Hso+)
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That is certainly a word you could use.
Posted by: RickC at Friday, February 28 2014 08:22 AM (ECH2/)
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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.
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).
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 |
+----+------+-----------+------+---------+------+----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
You mean I can actually see the progress of a long-running operation? Inconceivble!
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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Right away I am going away to do my breakfast, when having my breakfast coming again
to read other news.
Posted by: plumbing jobs in wisconsin at Sunday, February 09 2014 04:02 PM (LlQf4)
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Pixy? I'm still having to do the login thingy all over the Mee/Mu.nu-niverse. Just thought you'd might like to know.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, February 11 2014 12:19 PM (dc/G/)
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Yes, I've seen it a couple of times too. As soon as we're on the new server I'll be able to switch things back to the way they used to be. The new server has 4x the SSD, and we're using a new version of MySQL with data compression so that the database is 1/3 the size, so we effectively have 12x as much space as before.
Also, it's a whole lot cheaper. Yay technology!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 12 2014 11:21 AM (PiXy!)
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Some of those things were words.
Yay words!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, February 13 2014 02:17 PM (MBEMi)
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Just had to log in again myself, so it's definitely not working as it should. Let me take a quick peek under the hood...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, February 14 2014 10:33 PM (PiXy!)
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(the first reply in this thread, from Mr. In Wisconsin, is week-old spam. I think the spam-eater took a break during all the server migration.)
Posted by: Mikeski at Sunday, February 16 2014 09:01 PM (Zlc1W)
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The first reply in this thread, from Mr. In Wisconsin, is week-old spam...
Are you sure? It reads very much like the conversational level of most Wisconsinites...
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, February 17 2014 04:14 PM (kkiRR)
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As if I didn't bug you enough, Pixy... I have a couple of very long spam comments that are SO long they push the editor buttons off the side of the edit screen. Can you help?
Oh, and it looks like the login thing is resolved: THANK YOU!!!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, February 17 2014 11:27 PM (kkiRR)
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Are you sure? It reads very much like the conversational level of most Wisconsinites...
Zing! (As a Minnesotan, I appreciate the humor.)
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Repeating request: I have a couple of very long spam comments that are SO long they push
the editor buttons off the side of the edit screen. Can you help?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, February 19 2014 11:50 AM (9ckGE)
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Tuesday, February 04
Meegrating
I'm planning to move mee.nu across to a new server next weekend. I'll post details in the next couple of days, but be prepared for some site wonkiness in the small hours of Sunday morning. (Which is Sunday afternoon for me in Australia, so it works well for most of us.)
New server is cheaper and faster (for most things), has more memory, and a lot more SSD. Only has software RAID, but it's RAID-1, which is pretty reliable, and with the new config we have a separate dedicated backup server.
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Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, February 10 2014 07:31 AM (+rSRq)
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Not yet, had to reschedule for tomorrow.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 10 2014 08:01 AM (2yngH)
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I noticed we were offline for about half an hour this morning, so I assume it happened? How's the new server doing?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, February 11 2014 11:23 AM (+rSRq)
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Sorry, that must have been a glitch. Still not meegrated.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 12 2014 11:19 AM (PiXy!)
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Sunday, February 02
Oops
Overrun by log files.
Fixed now.
Sorry.
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Saturday, February 01
Wakstarter
Ankama, the people behind Wakfu, are running a Kickstarter to dub the show into English and release it on Blu-ray. Naturally, they reached their goal in the first day and are fast approaching their third stretch goal ($200k), which will be a dubbed Blu-ray of season 2 and a release of the quote-manga-unquote on Comixology.
CAD $40 gets you the Blu-ray, a Wakstarter t-shirt, and two PDF artbooks on the making of the first season. Including shipping anywhere in the world, so that's a really good deal if you live in Australia.
The Blu-ray(s) will be region-free, and will also have the original French language track and subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. So even if the dub turns out to be like most dubs, you'll still have a legit hi-res copy of Wakfu to watch.
Also, it seems that when they hit the next stretch goal - about three more days at the current rate - the extra Blu-ray for season 2 will be included for no extra cost.
Update: Bumped, because now you get both seasons on two Blu-Rays for the same price (CAD $40 including worldwide shipping). The next stretch goal is for the dubbing of their mini-Wakfu episodes; the Kickstarter should reach that within a week.
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This is all rather surreal because the animation was an extended teaser for an MMORPG, wasn't it?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, January 29 2014 05:18 PM (+rSRq)
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Basically, yes. But although the MMORPG roots show clearly in the story, it's a lot of fun in its own right; I consider it one of the best western cartoons in the last ten years.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 29 2014 09:23 PM (PiXy!)
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I tried to watch teh video and I got audio but no picture. Weird.
Posted by: RickC at Sunday, February 02 2014 09:51 AM (swpgw)
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