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Some old YouTube favourites, while waiting for the day to pass by.

There is no drug or single event in the world that can make a computer person focus more clearly than when a server crashes. The mere act of a crashing hard drive, database or server component can temporarily raise one’s IQ as much as 50 points. You suddenly become more aware of the universe around you and less aware of trivial aspects in life, such as reality TV, what type of car you should drive and if wearing socks with sandals is cool. You can for a brief moment see dimly into the immediate future as your pleasure centers temporarily shutdown and you put your resume on standby for a mass mailing campaign. You move much quicker as time seems to slow down, you can calculate rational and irrational numbers using math that hasn’t been invented yet and you become a little more spiritual–no, a lot more spiritual. A crashed server sometimes brings a network administrator closer to God, his or her fellow workers and the unemployment line. And in a single point of light (pixilated light) when you discover that your backups haven’t run for over two months, a cold perspiration blankets your feverous body while your knees weaken and the contents of your stomach climb to the top of your reflux valve. This is it; your mission critical server crashed and you don’t have a backup. So what do you do?

It has been a while since I had something interesting to say.

Anyway, I’ve recently found out, from pretty good sources, that Mibbit is logging all conversations sent trough the website.

This might include NickServ/authentication passwords.

There is no official EULA stating this is being done, thus being a violation of privacy. (but who cares about privacy these days?)

Mibbit is a young, fast growing, webbased IRC-client.

I’ve got myself a cheap 500GB network hard disk.

Been testing it, and seems to be working fine! It’s rather fast (it has a SATA2 disk in it) and it was really easy to set up.

But I’m missing a few things;

• Impossible to format/check the disk for errors from the web interface
• Impossible to create partitions from the web interface
• Impossible to give anonymous FTP access (or use different username:password for FTP, as I don't need any passwords on my disk)
• Only FAT32 (read/write) support, and only NTFS (read) support
• Deleting files seems very slow, but perhaps it's my Mac/WiFi that's giving troubles?

I’m emptying my other (old) external disk (160GB), and will add that one to the network disk (you can extend the network disk by adding other USB disks).

As you might have noticed, I added some new features.

I’ve been playing around with some plugins.

There’s now a Twitter widget, a simple calendar widget (with links on dates where I posted something), and ‘recent comments’ (not that there are any comments, but I’ve added it).

I had to do some small modifications in my theme, as it wasn’t supporting dynamic widgets, but here it is. Seems to be working fine!

Helene’s new Vista pc seemed to be working fine, except for Ventrilo 2.1 (the free and, well, illegal version).

It managed to connect, but no sound was coming out of it. Not when someone was talking, and not when there was a status message (like a join/connect/…).

I tried every out- and input device in “Setup”. I deleted the config, reinstalled, … Nothing seemed to work. I even checked if Vista wasn’t muting it, and it wasn’t. ;)

Song of the week. :)

I quote my Hypermedia teacher from school:

“You add <?xml:stylesheet href=“blabla.css” type=“text/css”?> to blabla.xml. You will notice that, once again, this will not work in Firefox for some weird reason. I suggest using Internet Explorer for this. Nevertheless, there’s a workaround for Firefox, using xml-stylesheet for you Firefox fans…”

Well well, let’s all blame Firefox (well, Gecko, to be precise) for not parsing this correctly! Especialy when xml-stylesheet is the only valid option set by W3C…

Yes yes, it has received a fixed place in our family.

All I need now are a few people to come by and test it; I wonder what the range is like.

The only thing I don’t really like is the “Watch our ad and get 15 mins free inet (daily)”. Ad? Watch? Oh come on… Where is this going?!