Archive for the 'technobabble' Category

Server migrations (or, “How I spent the last month of my life”)

Monday, July 16th, 2007

So, the last couple of weeks I’ve been pretty preoccupied by this whole server migration process, but it’s about wrapped up and I’m feeling pretty good about it overall, so I’ll go ahead and tell the tale now. But it might be boring and technical, I dunno :p. About … the middle of April, the [...]

nudge forward

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Met with a cla advisor on monday, went over the requirements for the psych degree. Easily met them. Need to see the auditor sometime next week to see if she still has the paperwork that says “yep, you’re official” and get me graduated. I know I don’t have my copy of that paperwork anymore, so [...]

the sphere and the schedule

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

so, I’m drawing near one of those big life-changing forks in the road. Last one I hit was probably the first one I hit: the end of high school, going to college, picking a major. It’s depressing to think that I’m in a mindset not particularly dissimilar to the one I was in eight years [...]

bopm = virus :p

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Just got this email from the network admin of my home network, some random guy I don’t know, and my director all at the same time. Forwarded from netadmin above me: PSCs, We got an external report that claims (ip of my ircd-host, removed) was allegedly sending viruses to hosts on the 199.17.x.x net block [...]

Ratio sites, and coping with the consequences of zero-sum

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites. The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, it’s [...]