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Friday, April 24
What The World Needs Now
Apart from a live-action
Kim Possible movie - is an
Erfworld anime.
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I don't think it's a very hot idea due to the world being too contrived.
Posted by: Author at Sunday, April 26 2009 03:03 AM (/ppBw)
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There is that.
There are a lot of RPG-based anime series, some of which aren't actually awful, but RPG tropes are accessible to a wider audience than turn-based strategy ones.
But I don't care!I want to see the march of the cloth golems! I want to see the dance-fighting! I want to see Wanda, and Charlie's Archons! It would be
awesome.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 26 2009 03:53 AM (PiXy!)
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Saturday, April 11
Ars Munuvica
Just browsing Ars Technica, as is my wont of a Saturday evening, when I find....
This:
One such Taliban propaganda site billed itself as the official voice of
the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," and regularly provided
enthusiastic (if highly dubious) reports of successful attacks on
coalition troops in the region. It was pulled offline last week after
conservative blog The Jawa Report urged readers to complain
to companies "unknowingly and unwittingly giving the Taliban some of
the necessary tools they need to prolong the war." (The blogger also
provided Taliban officials' contact emails, and suggested signing them
up for sheep porn.)
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Posted by: Old Grouch at Saturday, April 11 2009 11:55 PM (fx4N3)
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Did you port us to the new hardware today?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, April 19 2009 10:42 AM (+rSRq)
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No, I got hit by a bus instead.
Minx tied itself in a knot for a little while, and I had to smack it. So if you noticed any downtime, that was it.
Unfortunately, there's still no solution forthcoming for the network driver issue, and I haven't had time to roll my own. So it will be at least another week before we can move in to our new home.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 19 2009 08:26 PM (PiXy!)
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When I say "hit by a bus"... Well, the main production server at work crashed, let's see, four times in three days, and I had to pick up the pieces. And the database got corrupted (MyISAM problem) and locked up (InnoDB problem), and replication choked a couple of times. And I was already scheduled to implement some major software updates over the weekend.
So, yeah, bus.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 19 2009 08:30 PM (PiXy!)
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Then the major software changes clashed, and then we had another database issue, and I spent
hours trying to find the bug in my code before I worked out that it wasn't a bug in my code, and then replication choked again, and then there was a bug in my code after all, only different, and I would have found it three days earlier if it hadn't been for all the fireworks.
Bus.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 20 2009 03:27 AM (PiXy!)
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Seems like there's been a lot of shrine desecration going on!
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, April 20 2009 03:31 AM (+rSRq)
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You have my sympathy!
(Only thing I have that I can complain about is the discovery - two days before taxes were due - that the spreadsheet we’ve been using to adjust individual withholding for my business had a mistake in it, so the 940s didn't match the W-2s. Nuisance.)
Posted by: Old Grouch at Monday, April 20 2009 09:37 AM (92326)
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The server crashed again, and this time corrupted the index on one of our largest tables. It would take hours to rebuild, but fortunately I just got replication completely up to speed, so I'm dragging the table back across from the replica as fast as it would go. Two days ago the replica was running a day behind, so we would have been stuffed. Sometimes not
everything goes wrong all at once...
On the other hand, I have a replacement server arriving today. If that had been ready first, we wouldn't have had this crash.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, April 21 2009 12:13 AM (PiXy!)
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Friday, April 10
Yeah Baby
Mythbusters is back for a new season.
Three words: Radio-controlled bus.
You know you're on something big when your small scale involves dropping cars from a crane.
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**WHOA**
Actually that would be the one with Dennis Hopper. For accuracy, is it rigged to explode under 50mph ?
Posted by: Andrew at Sunday, April 12 2009 09:07 PM (NXtwT)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 13 2009 01:08 AM (PiXy!)
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Monday, April 06
I Think You Just Authored A Web Browser
Wrote a search engine over the weekend (when I wasn't building new super servers that don't work).
It pulls data out of a SQL database and creates full-text indexes for it, then provides a web server (no Apache needed!) and query engine with output as template-driven HTML or JSON.
4K of code.
CherryPy and Xapian, an awesome combination.
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Sunday, April 05
Support Above And Beyond
I mentioned on SoftLayer's forums that OpenVZ wasn't working with the new Nehalem server. SoftLayer don't support OpenVZ; it's a custom kernel that I downloaded and installed myself. If you need virtualisation and support, they offer Citrix XenServer, Virtuozzo, and Microsoft's Hyper-V.
Which is fine. I was hoping to do it myself with OpenVZ. I couldn't get it to work because OpenVZ doesn't support the new network controllers and needed support. SoftLayer don't support OpenVZ, so I asked them to sell me Virtuozzo.
What they
did was deploy a test server with the same configuration as mine and assign an engineer to getting OpenVZ running. For free. That's awesome.
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That's pretty amazing service.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, April 05 2009 08:21 AM (+rSRq)
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It is.
Turns out that Virtuozzo doesn't work either - same problem - so they have to find a solution anyway. But they didn't know that until they went trying to fix my problem for me.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 05 2009 10:59 AM (PiXy!)
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Hardly a surprise, Virtuozzo and OpenVZ are exactly the same thing.
I ran Ani-nouto on OpenVZ based on 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 for a while. There were issues with crashes, and Parallels dragged their feet on resolving them. It seems that the best course of action would be to take the driver from RHEL 5 and retrofit it into whatever 2.6.18 OVZ has.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sunday, April 05 2009 03:46 PM (/ppBw)
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I think the best course of action for Pixy right now is to be patient and see what SoftLayer comes up with.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, April 05 2009 04:26 PM (+rSRq)
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Yep. I expect that's what SoftLayer are doing now.
I thought that maybe Virtuozzo would have a more recently updated kernel that mightn't have made it to OpenVZ just yet... But then, they'd have to release it, wouldn't they?
Oh well. Let's see what happens.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, April 05 2009 04:28 PM (PiXy!)
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Saturday, April 04
Super Server
Akane is on her way!
Full specs:
2 x Xeon 5520 (2.26GHz, quad core, hyperthreaded)
24GB DDR3 ECC RAM (expandable to 72GB)
5 x 1TB disks in hardware RAID-5 (and 6 free drive bays)
32GB Intel X25-E SSD
Redundant power supplies
CentOS 5 / OpenVZ / CPanel / Urchin 6
This will be fun.
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