May 2004 archives
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May 23, 2004 by Sciri
Homestar Runner RPG
Paul Slocum is in the process of developing an RPG based on the characters of Homestar Runner! Get out your Atari 2600, burn yourself a ROM, and get stupid! Although the cast of characters is currently limited, I’m sure that more maps and options will be added later. Well, as many characters and maps that [...]Archive
May 19, 2004 by Sciri
Trading CPU for bandwidth?
Which is more important? Massive amounts of bandwidth or lots of CPU? In my case bandwidth definitely wins since I’m passing between 5 GB and 25 GB per day. My dedicated server is an Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz box with 512 MB RAM running Fedora Core 1. My personal Web server sitting on my SDSL [...]Archive
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May 17, 2004 by Sciri
Hi-Touch 640 PS
Since Kelly and I are going to start on-location shooting, we’re going to need a portable unit for proofs and sales. I just ordered a Hi-Touch 640 PS 4×6 photo printer along with a bunch of media refills. It’s a continuous tone 403 DPI (6400 DPI inkjet equivalent) dye sublimation printer that spits out prints [...]Archive
May 17, 2004 by Sciri
Ensim – I don’t get it.
If you want a guaranteed way to hose your Web server, install Ensim. In a nutshell, Ensim is a control panel application that completely takes over your Web server and turns it into an appliance that any neophyte can manage themselves. The base operating system more or less gets pushed into the background, Ensim installs [...]Archive
May 17, 2004 by Sciri
A fistful of quickies…
Many thanks go out to sabominator for pointing out toothpaste for dinner. Applegeeks makes me laugh. A lot. Gina makes a hot bride. Mac Hall inspired Applegeeks. The Inventor makes a guest appearance. We have a bunch of little pricks wandering around the house, and you should buy stuff. The Trunkmonkey is passing 6 GB [...]Archive
May 11, 2004 by Sciri
Mac OS X – Clearing DNS Cache
Once you go to a Web site, or do any DNS lookup, the IP gets cached for quite a while. This becomes a royal pain if you’re a systems administrator who is in the middle of migrating domains from one server to another. Executing sudo killall lookupd lookupd -flushcache clears the cache, restarts the caching [...]Archive
May 11, 2004 by Sciri
Cheap dedicated servers!
Although it’s too soon to give a review or recommendation, ValueWeb has been rocking my nuts for the past few days. Expect a full review in the next few weeks once we get all of our Web sites transferred over and convert our 768 Kbps SDSL line to a 6 Mbps ADSL line.Archive
May 6, 2004 by Sciri