April 8, 2007

Say AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

April 7, 2007

Migration Complete!

So Unicron has now taken over the last of the webservices- smtp and imap. There’s still some tinkering to do, but I felt confident enough about it to move Unicron onto the UPS and p-nut off. Over the next week I’ll be making sure everything is backed up, but I think it’s now permanent. Hurray!

April 4, 2007

switchover to unicron

I migrated the websites from p-nut to unicron- this was one of the big projects in this migration. if you get a chance, check the following sites out and look for bad links/images. * morgajel.com * www.morgajel.com * morgajel.net * www.morgajel.net * ianhawthorn.com * www.ianhawthorn.com * myjaxon.com * www.myjaxon.com * blog.myjaxon.com

April 3, 2007

Blast from the Past: Letter about a professor.

This letter was written in 2002-2003 to an interim head of the CS department about a class I had just taken. To protect the guilty parties, I’ve removed their name and replaced it with a Tomato. it’s somehow fitting. ——————— After talking to Chris S., I found out that you were interested in what “really” happened in Professor Tomato’s compiler class. I feel that I should share my story with you.

March 30, 2007

Unicron

So I got the new hardware parts, so I figured I might as well document the process. I’ve decided on the name Unicron because it’s the biggest PC I’ve ever owned. I’ve been waiting over a year to really rebuild my servers- since I ran out of ide connectors in Pablo, I knew something had to change. The new case is MASSIVE- it’s sitting next to jackie’s machine and is a good 6″ longer and 3″ higher.

March 29, 2007

Useful Utility: diff

Diff is a handy little command used to compare two text files- useful if trying to determine what’s changed in different versions of files, used by subversion to show what files have been changed, and can even create patch files for updating sourcecode. So what are some of the more useful flags? * -i lets us ignore any capitalization changes * -b lets us ignore any spacing changes * -B ignore blank lines

March 28, 2007

Review: Metal Slug Anthology

I was really looking forward to this game- I vaguely remembered playing Metal Slug at a Pizza Hut many years ago, and was looking forward to seeing all the games wrapped up into one package (it even had a new sequel, Metal Slug 6, included). The game is a side scroller shoot-em-up where you get different guns and shoot the bad guys before they shoot you. When I got it home and started playing it, I found a slight problem- it’s a perfect replica of the arcade game- you die quick and have to put in another quarter- only instead of quarters, you press start.

March 27, 2007

Review: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

This will be a short review; buy it. What do you need to know about it? It’s a Zelda game, so the standard running around and stabbing things applies. You collect new items, piece together an artifact, and kill the bad guy. I haven’t gotten all the way though the game, but I have put in enough time to realize it’s pretty big. The controls make good use of the wii remote and nunchuck.

March 27, 2007

New Wii Reviews

ok, I’m gonna start doing reviews for the games I rent for the Wii- the ratings will go something like this: First Tier Buy: Great game, you should absolutely buy it Second Tier Buy: Decent- not the best, but still fun. Third Tier Buy: If you’ve run out of things to try, give it a shot. Don’t Bother: I won’t even recommend renting it.

March 24, 2007

What makes freeBSD feel old?

This is a list of all the things that make it feel old. I started this while working at a place that ran a lot of FreeBSD machines. I never got around to finishing it because we started implementing linux boxes, but I think the complaints are still valid. The real shame is that I only wrote down 6 out of about 100 different things. Mostly it’s trivial stuff, but trivial stuff should be the easiest to fix- the FreeBSD people had a real fear of painting barns (take that as you will).