EDIT:: If you can read this, the server is working! :D If you can't... well. yeah. :p

Having never needed to share a server with someone and have 2 domains pointing to the same place, I always threw out the vhosts config of apache and just used httpd.conf. Now that I might have to set up another site, I'm having to rewrite the vhost configs from scratch, and then move things around. And once I've done that, I've got to make it so that, from the end-user perspective, it looks like nothing has changed.

This should be fun...


* You are now known as Dave
<Dave> !quit
<Harlie> Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
* You are now known as Tamber
<Tamber> !quit
* Harlie has quit (Quit: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid.)


Some days I really begin to wonder how some folks even find the power button on their computer, nevermind log into a website and write a semi-coherent sentence.
See this, for example: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqO9qYdHTWC8L.jiPTXihsgG...

(Archived copy attached from 10:43 this morning.)

Note 1: When disassembling anything, it's usually a good idea to take photographs, so that you know where everything goes when you're trying to put it back together again.
Note 2: The first note is less effective when the item that you are trying to reassemble was forcibly disassembled by the postal service and pieces of it were rattling around inside the case.

Not so long ago, I got an SGI 1600SW because I thought it would let me use the SGI Octane. Silly me. However, it does give me a chance to try designing some actual hardware, in the form of a converter from dvi/vga/etc to OpenLDI.

After some wrangling with my bank, I finally got my new PC. I have had a few more issues with it than I expected, but it's been a while since I last built a computer. (In fact, not counting my laptop, it's been 5 or so years since I got a new computer.)
Hardware Pr0n ;)
I should've taken photos of the unboxing and construction, but I wanted to plug everything in and all that. =Þ

After plenty of tinkering, I now have my domain name set up properly and with ssl for the updated domain. The site is still reachable from the old domain name, but should shunt you to the new one once you start trying to do anything.

If you've ever read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a story about a world run by a mysterious entity known as Big Brother, where the past is rewritten to match what actually happened, and people who disagree with the Party (or just get too intelligent) are erased (They become unpersons, they never existed.); then you'll find this incredibly ironic...

Anti-sec, who previously hosed astalavista, are at it again. This time, they're crusading against full-disclosure; threatening security blogs, exploit sites and anyone who publicises exploits. They claim to be against it to prevent skiddies from attacking people by simply copy-pasting exploits.
And how did they get their message across? They attacked an image-hosting site, replacing random images with one carrying their message.

A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded the BIOS of my laptop and then put a password on the BIOS and the HDD. They worked fine for 3 boots, and then it stopped accepting them. Oh dear.
While I do have a backup of my documents from the 11th of June, everything between then and the end of June (when I lost access.) has been lost. Annoyingly, my backup does not contain the IRIX install CDs, as I told the backup not to contain *.iso files. Of course, I didn't think (obviously. x.x) that I would need to back them up. Duh.

While trying to beat my thoughts into a format suitable for posting into a reply at reddit, I came to a little bit of a realisation about my beliefs. I've always called myself Christian, having been brought up in a Xtian family, but as time progressed (as time is wont to do.), my beliefs changed.

Then, at 16 or so (I can't remember when, exactly...) I was confirmed into the Methodist church. Shortly after, I had a crisis of faith. Yes, some of my beliefs were along the lines of those of the church, but some weren't. And some were obstinately perpendicular.