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[Status] The Witcher 2

aroth — Sun, 22 May 2011 08:01:11 +0000

For anyone that missed it, the sequel to one of the best games ever put together was released a few days ago. I’ve been busy quickly re-playing the first game so that I could have a save-game to import into the second. And with that now complete, it’s finally time to start playing The Witcher 2.

So long story short, I expect it to be fairly quiet around here, until I finish with this latest distraction.

[Status] Anti-spam Enabled

aroth — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:27:23 +0000

The volume of inbound comment spam has suddenly increased from “annoying” to “completely ridiculous” and exceeded my capacity to deal with it manually. So I’ve done what I probably should have done in the first place and enabled the Akismet anti-spam plugin that came bundled with this WordPress distribution. It seems to be working, but I haven’t done much checking to verify that it isn’t also filtering out legitimate comments with the spam.

If you find your comments being erroneously blocked, please contact me directly via e-mail at ‘aroth [dot] bigtribe [at] gmail [dot] com’ and I will see what I can do to tweak the spam filter settings.

[Status] Site Downtime

aroth — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:46:21 +0000

My apologies for the recent bit of downtime. It seems like the router decided to hang while we were out on vacation, hence the long delay in rectifying the problem. By my estimates there were approximately 4 days worth of down-time as a result.

But in any case, the router is now unstuck and normal operations have resumed.

[Status] Upgrade Complete

aroth — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:20:19 +0000

Finally all the parts arrived, and the build and migration process was completed without incident. This site is now hosted on a shiny new energy-efficient Atom D510 based server box. More details on the hardware and the build and configuration … Continue reading →

[Status] Upgrade Delays

aroth — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:05:09 +0000

I just found out that the Atom CPU and mainboard that I ordered is on backorder won’t be getting here until the end of the month (why did the site I purchased it from list it as “In Stock” when it wasn’t really in stock?). So now we play the waiting game, and hope that this old server is able to keep holding up.

[Site Status] Server Instability

aroth — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:20:37 +0000

The 10-year-old PC that I’m currently using to host this site seems to be going through an end-of-life crisis. If you’re reading this then it must currently be up (or you accessed Google’s cached version), but there’s no guarantee it will stay that way. So don’t be surprised if this blog is intermittently down for the next few days. If it does go down, Google’s cache of the entire Internet is a good place to look.

And no worries, I’ve already ordered the parts for a replacement box. It will be an Atom D510 based server, with a meager 60 GB SSD, and it should be anywhere from 2-3 times as fast as the current aging server while using less than one-third as much power and running in complete silence. Progress is awesome sometimes.

I had really wanted to wait and build an AMD Brazos based server (would be about 50% faster than the Atom D510 while using a comparable amount of energy), but the replacement needs to be put in place sooner rather than later, and there are currently no Brazos chips/boards available here in Australia. Oh well. I’ll still have a bit of fun assembling, testing, and configuring the Atom box. Maybe I’ll add a quick post documenting the process, as well.