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02.09.2010
I just got an automated email from Twitter announcing some changes. One of them seem to be that even they have realized how absolutely pointless URL-shortening is, and what they are doing about it.
From email:
In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping service t.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link.
If you can't read, that is English for "Goodbye bit.ly and it's URL-shortening brothers. We'll be handling this on our own now, and you have no market".
[quote]What does this mean for me?
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12.12.2008
So in part 1 of this series I covered some of the things I needed to do to get a Linux-only routing solution with a bridged DSL-modem and no double-NAT. This hardly qualifies as a UPnP solution in itself, but it is a prerequisite for being able to run a UPnP daemon.
In this part I will cover the parts about setting up and configuring the UPnP service itself.
To recap: This is done a on Ubuntu Server 8.10 (Hardy) installation already configured to handle routing and firewalling. Unfortunately the Ubuntu developers somehow forgot to add some of the needed software to the Hardy software repository. This makes the job a little more tedious, but still simple enough to be worthwhile the effort.
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11.12.2008
For the last few weeks, I've been hammered with "Dude, you got to get Gears of War 2!". And when I got it, the first thing I noticed was that the Xbox Live and the 360 wasn't too happy about my "strict NAT". Time for some networking mess!
Implementing proper port-forwarding according to Microsoft specs didn't do much good. Obviously not optimal, and trying to host network games, this turned out to be a show-stopper. No workie.
Basically, what I needed to do was the following:
- Bridge the DSL-modem/router to avoid double-NATing.
- Reconfigure my Linux-routing scripts to implement a proper firewalling
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21.03.2007
After spending a week or so getting the new server up and running as it should, I get weird reports from people telling me some of my sites look like they are from 1994.
Update: After changing some seemingly unrelated settings on the server (routing) things are now working. Whee! And I didn't even use duct-tape!
06.03.2007
I've really been beyond busy lately, and I'll be busy another few days. Anyway, I thought I'd post this one gem.
For those of you who have traversed the internets long enough to know the one and only goatse, you might understand what I mean. To the one's who don't: for your own sake, you might not want to research it.
Anyway, someone linked this picture on IRC and all I could think of was a devine being goatse'ing the earth.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm just overexposed to this kinda stuff :P
03.10.2006
Today slashdot reported that Slackware (Linux) 11 is now out. Being bored at work, I decided to troll a little. That is, inform whoever might risk being misled by the headline, that Slackware is a piece of shit that should be avoided at all cost.
All the standard responses were there. That using Slackware was the only true way to learn how Linux really works. How every other Linux distro out there is bloated and that it will severely impact the performance of their 3.0GHz multi-core setups they have running (nevermind Slackware being compiled for 386, eh?). There were also a few creative ways of rewriting "Slackware lacks essential features" into "Not being locked into a specific solution".
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16.08.2006
This is more boasting than anything else, but I DLed the AOL-logs myself, imported the data into my database, and tried a few queries.
After importing data, adding a few indexes (which took a long time to generate) most queries completed within seconds. That is, full text search as you can search with google, on a 40 million row table. Within seconds.
I like my database. I like Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
However, I just had to run the killer query of all killer queries. I intend to invetigate this DB further, but in the meantime, please check out my nice stats (and the top 100 searches) here.
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15.08.2006
The leak of the AOL search-logs have been all over the web. Not only is the logs all over the webs, but all sorts of amusing analyses too.
What is probably most interesting is that it reveals just how AOL users interface with a search engine. You'd think that people use search engines to search for stuff. Not so. As you can see from the linked article, some people chat up with the search engine, while another one threatens it. Some asks God why he isn't answering them. In a search engine.
These logs are gold and I applaud AOL for leaking them, even though it probably wasn't intentional.
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12.08.2006
So... I found this awesome website. Looks crappier than most and is definitely competing with MySpace for a "ugliest website ever award".
Not that this is too unusual, but this site is from 2006, and not 1996 despite it looks, genuine Michael Jackson midi music and the obligatory marquee-text.
The best part? It's alledgedly a freakin' webdesign company! Obviously they must be pretty skilled, after all they make these wild claims:
"We offer extremely good rates and have a track record of building websites and putting adsense on them and making clients as much as $40-50 a MONTH!! We have the screenshots to prove it."
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10.08.2006
A little about BitTorrent
For those who don't know BitTorrent or what it happen to be, it is a P2P protocol used to download stuff from the internet.
The good thing about BitTorrent is that users upload what they download, while downloading. That way you get to share the bandwidth load, and releasing anything on the internet can in theory be done by uploading the file just once. As a bandwidth load distribution system it is a very neat concept and works exceptionally well.
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