ewindisch on May 26th, 2007

I’ve finally gotten my cellular internet connection, “BlueConnect” from Era.pl, working on Linux.. not that I spent that much time on it, but it wasn’t a “5 minutes and done” like in Windows… or at last, to my own fault, it wasn’t.. In the end, it turned out to be as simple as inserting the [...]

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ewindisch on May 23rd, 2007

It seems I won’t be seeing the Lost season finale, at least not on my Linux machines… unless I turn back time or find it on BitTorrent.  Today, of all days, it appears that ABC has disabled their “original player” that had been working fine on Linux.  A month or so ago, ABC revealed a [...]

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ewindisch on May 21st, 2007

*spoilers* It is almost 5am here, so excuse my typos, poor grammar, and my rambling. The finale sucked. Too short, only one hour… Hiro was fairly pathetic, Nathan’s heroism was too sudden and unexplained, Peter isn’t shown again after the bomb, Peter’s discussion with the old, dead guy was too weird and not well-enough explained, [...]

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ewindisch on May 11th, 2007

I’ve just released Yabus 2.0. This is the software that I’ve written to facilitate the new backup procedure for GrokThis.net. Please let me know if you find any bugs, or have any patches! I’m not going to claim that this is the best code ever, but it does work, and it seems to be safe [...]

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ewindisch on May 11th, 2007

Galadriel will be moving to a new server, hopefully this weekend.  We’re expecting only very minor downtime as a result.  (thank LVM snapshots for that) No IP addresses will change.  The only changes that will be visible will be faster speeds.  Galadriel is currently using a 50% allocation of our vps001 server, a dual-core Pentium [...]

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