Awesomeness of last.fm
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Last.Fm is a really awesome (to use this vague term) web 2.0 site. This site is in an ideal position in the market. What started as a simple this-is-what-I-listen-to stat site grew to a much larger community site, where people can find and share information about music. People still share their statistics, and this information [...]
Why I choose Gentoo
Gentoo is a source based distribution. Every piece of software is compiled on your own computer. While this can take a long time, and requires a generally fast PC to do it without really bothering you, source based distributions do have major advantages. Some packages provide compile time options to include functions/features or not, depending [...]
Top at Google
I seem to have beaten Last.fm and ebay on the Drakonen keyword and am ranked first! joy joy. Maybe it’s because I started using Google Analytics on this blog, which is a very nice thing to do to yourself. you can see if there is activity on your site, see which links users click, where [...]
The Google effect
My nickname, which I thought was a pretty unique one (atleast in it’s spelling) does not seem to be… unique. When I google on my nickname this blog comes in fourth. My Last.fm page is the first and a photo made by dodo of me in a Japanese metro second. Thirdth is some dude which [...]
Some output…
drakonen@Gamont ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md/1 1.1T 56G 989G 6% / drakonen@Gamont ~ $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid5 sdd2[3] sdc2[0] sdb2[1] sda2[2] 1171837056 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid1 sdd1[3] sdc1[0] sdb1[1] sda1[2] [...]
software Raid5 Storage
I finally got myself a decent file server setup. 4 disks using software raid5. I took an old (but still pretty powerful) machine I had lying around and added 4 new disks (samsung 400GB) and a sata controller (Promise TX4). Of course I went for a Gentoo installation, as I know that distribution the best, [...]
The curse called PHP
PHP is a bad piece of software. It has too many bugs, some which cause great security risks in production software. My last weird bug with php was with GD. I use Gallery2 for my pictures, and with my new camera it failed misserably. The tumbnails were generted perfectly, but when trying to view a [...]
Phone stuff, unlimited internet
Last week I took a new subscription for my phone. t-mobile has a nice offer called web and walk. 9.50E for unlimited internet access on your phone. Getting it is not easy though. You can’t get in on their website, and as I do not call that much their store wasn’t an option too. They [...]
Migration
Today i migrated from SphpBlog to wordpress, and I must say, WordPress is nice, although pretty complex. the SimplePHPBlog was very simple indeed! but… advanced users like advanced features, and plugins! The most work was getting the WPG2 plugin to work nicely, and find a theme which supported the widgets. I still need to edit [...]
ohnoos! we gots no internet!!
A powerfailure struck amsterdam today. At my work it suddenly became very silent when the servers stopped roaring. Some colleagues lost some work when their PC’s went out and I lost nothing! hurray laptops! When the power was back, WE GOTS NO INTERNET. atleast.. not working fully. Seems like one of the largest dutch internet [...]