Jan
29
Jan
28
AdSense goes icky
Read it and weep. I suppose it was only a matter of time. Expect to have to wade through a shitload more annoying ads once this goes live seeing as so many sites use AdSense.
Needless to say we won’t have any of that on here, I’ll disable it. I don’t mind a few ads as long as it doesn’t interfere with my browsing, but this ‘rich media’ stuff can only stink.
Jan
25
Todo list for the site, part 1
Here’s a bunch of stuff on my list I hope to get around to sooner (or later). I’m noting it down here because half the stuff isn’t written down anywhere and just pops up randomly when I’m laying in bed and should be getting some sleep.
Read more…
Jan
24
C64 nostalgia
Ah, memories, I can remember that screen from when it was the hottest game around on the, at the time, oh so expensive Commodore 64. Check out the site and play some of the oldies straight away in your browser thanks to the miracles of Java.
Time to figure out how to remap my IOGear’s KVM Ctrl key command to something else so I can hit Ctrl repeatedly.
Jan
22
w00t
My main comp is working flawlessly again. It went wonky after I added RAM a month ago or so, black screen and everything. After getting it back to work eventually it’s been unstable eversince. So yesterday I decided to take the plunge and reinstall… no boot option for cd. Big aha moment seeing as I know my Asus board (as any Asus board I’ve encountered) is rather picky about which drives it accepts with what cables and what settings. And seeing as I have 10+ drives in there… some quick rearranging, moving some stuff around to the onboard ‘raid’ controller, some to the standard IDE and some to my pci IDE controller and tadaaa, there was the boot option again. But… no need to reinstall XP anymore, it’s been running sjweetly for 18 hours or so with none of the problems I’d been having. So yay!
It’s a big load off my back as any problems with that system would have priority over some other plans, like getting a server up and running on a dedicated ADSL line to host the site myself. So now I can wait for the ADSL connection (ordered last week) and look around for a server. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a good one before the site crashes and burns on the current shared hosting account given the increasing amount of traffic over the last couple of months. :)
Interesting times.
Jan
19
Le snooze
everyone, including me, seems to busy again. It’s quiet on the forums.
Ah well.
Random bits of news;
Zimbra has been ported to Debian. Hooray, maybe this will finally make me test it.
GPL 3 will kick DRM butt. Amen. I’m still surprised how few non-techies understand the implications of how DRM can fuck up our privacy. Read it.
Web 3.0, interesting read because it not only manages to explain the 2.0 ‘phenomenon’ in plain english but also raises a few points about the whole new bubble I’ve also been getting sick off. It would be so much nicer if everyone could just get back to having fun.
Right… back to being busy.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind