Category Archives: tech

Flippy’s BitTorrent Tracker

Posted on 2005-01-11 [Tuesday] by [maven]

Secondly, I’ve installed a version of “Flippy’s BitTorrent Tracker”, which in its entirety consists of 3 tiny php pages. I’ve looked through the code and it’s all very straightforward, as it only relies on writing a few data files to … Continue reading →

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Re: Comment Spam

Posted on 2004-12-02 [Thursday] by [maven]

Well… Why didn’t I think of this earlier? I’ve changed the WordPress moderation-panel to “delete” comments by default (instead of having “do nothing” selected), as I’ve yet to get a real comment enter the moderation queue. Had I thought of … Continue reading →

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iBook arrived

Posted on 2004-11-07 [Sunday] by [maven]

I got my iBook G4 (12″, 1.2Ghz, 768mb, 60Gb HDD, Bluetooth) on Friday. Lovely machine so far (still so much stuff to get used to — like the @-key ), the only niggle is that the tiny speakers resonate with … Continue reading →

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iBook G4 12″

Posted on 2004-10-20 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I’ve been sick for the past two days, and in the throes of fever have ordered myself one of the upgraded iBooks. I’ll report how we get along, currently I’m still trying hard to think of a good name for … Continue reading →

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Ed Unofficial 0.1

Posted on 2004-10-07 [Thursday] by [maven]

Slight update. Getting better at this… Changelog: compiled busybox and pure-ftpd with uclibc, saving quite a bit of memory some kernel modules included (nfs, nfsd, smbfs, usb-stuff, audio) working logging (in /var/messages); /var and /tmp are writeable (tmpfs) video output … Continue reading →

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Ed Unofficial 0.0

Posted on 2004-10-06 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I’ve done a bit of fiddling with the “ed-on-a-chip” release from the SmartXX people. It is an embedded linux “distribution” running from 2mb of flash on the Xbox. Changelog: Updated to 2.4.27 + xbox-linux CVS patches + (maybe) proper F … Continue reading →

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RSS Feeds

Posted on 2004-09-20 [Monday] by [maven]

I’d recommend anyone with a reasonably popular blog software to keep an eye on their comments section. I’ve recently gotten single-link spam entries that are hard to filter out automatically. An RSS-Feed for your comments helps to track these down … Continue reading →

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The new iMac…

Posted on 2004-09-01 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I’ve always eyed the Apple machines with a certain kind of glee. I think I’d use one more as a Unix workstation than anything else, but they’re nice nonetheless. The first iMac (with CRT) was definitely ugly, the next one … Continue reading →

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Server

Posted on 2004-08-24 [Tuesday] by [maven]

Ordered (or more accurately made someone else order ) a server to leave permanently running. If it works out, it may end up being the smallest server ever. Main features are low-power and low-noise (hopefully). 2004-08-30 Update: Via Eden 533mhz … Continue reading →

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Torque

Posted on 2004-08-24 [Tuesday] by [maven]

I’ve licensed the Torque engine from GarageGames. It is nicely structured (in C++), includes a complete scripting engine and is multi-platform. The Direct3D renderer is simply and OpenGL wrapper, though (which is what the TSE update seems to be about, … Continue reading →

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Virus Statistics

Posted on 2004-07-14 [Wednesday] by [maven]

In the past 58 days I’ve gotten 9738 viruses via email. The list consists of 37 unique types, mostly NetSky, Bagle and LovGate variants. If one assumes 50 kilobytes of traffic per mail, then that’s equal to approximately 475 megabytes … Continue reading →

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iTunes Music Store

Posted on 2004-06-15 [Tuesday] by [maven]

I had an extended romp through the newly opened (in England, France and Germany that is — not really an “European” launch) iTunes music store. It is now obvious to me why there is quite a bit of buzz about … Continue reading →

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