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Gentoo, PCRE, and PHP

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:42:28 -0400

I recently ran into an obscure issue with PHP's preg functions:
Exception: preg_match(): Compilation failed: unknown option bit(s) set at offset 0
This error message would show up whenever a PCRE function was used with the u (unicode/UTF-8) flag set. This is apparently triggered by using a new version of PHP (>5.3?) and an old version of libpcre (<8.1?). The only solutions I could find on the 'net were:

old version of PCRE is lying around, get rid of it (no, both Portage and php -i | grep -i pcre reassured me this was not the case)
PCRE and/or PHP needs to be recompiled for UTF-8 support (I see no such options in the packages and have to assume they're on by default in Gentoo)
PHP needs to be recompiled because PCRE was upgraded after it (this made sense, but genlop -lu ,| grep -E '(pcre|php)' assured me the proper order had been followed)

But guess what? One emerge -1 libpcre php and one /etc/init.d/apache2 restart later (though it occurred to me maybe I hadn't done that previously! Try it yourself, maybe that's why you're getting this!), and I was good to go.
Sometimes, you just have to double-check.

Oh where, oh where, has the little kitsune gone...?

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:26:48 -0500

Space Cowboy!

As mentioned in my previous short post, I've been playing an MMORPG lately (*gasp!*), called Space Cowboy. Oddly enough, I'm finding it to be somewhat interesting and time consuming enough that I can jump in and come back out a few hours later feeling refreshed and without so much time (Which is an odd thing to say, but there it is.).

There's something nice about blasting things out of the sky.

Must be the the gattling thunka-thunka-thunka-thunka-BOOM...

Anyhow, this company apparently has not one, not two, but four free MMORPGs to which you can use the same account for. Interestingly, all of them claim to be free for life, which is kind of an interesting promise - not that I disbelieve it, mind you (Gunz is still alive) - and I wonder how long it'll last. GPotato (the company) does get income from these games, I imagine, given some of the paid options that are available. So far, though, it seems that these paid options are nowhere near necessary to be able to enjoy the game which is, it hopefully goes without saying, a very nice fact indeed.

I get spam!

So recently, my main e-mail address was a target for spam. At first it came slowly - an e-mail or so per week - but then it began to grow, more and more e-mails per day. Originally, I wasn't too concerned, but then I got really annoyed - I'd managed to keep all my e-mail addresses entirely spam-free. Why did this one start getting spam all of a sudden?

Eventually I remembered a bug which was spotted in my ICQ client, Miranda: Recently, for some odd reason, the "Do not publish primary e-mail address" option would always switch off, causing anyone to be able to collect your e-mail address off your profile.

I removed my e-mail address from my profile (I doubt I'll be needing to reset my password any time soon anyway.), and the spam dropped almost magically.

Server updates on forum

To give my forum some use (and I think I had decided some time ago to do this, and didn't stick to it), I'm going to post any updates relevant to the server itself only on my forum rather than cluttering my personal blog with that information.

This will be the last post on my blog in that category.

Gallery changes done

All the changes to the gallery have been done. All galleries are completely available again. I'll remind once again that some galleries and features may require registration.

Looking for an apartment

I said I was moving out last year, and I haven't yet! I'm looking for an apartment, and my future roommate Eth has spotted one near St. Laurent that might be good for the two of us.

He works in Orléans, and myself downtown, so we're looking between those two areas.

Xmas gifts

For the curious, I've updated my wishlist, showing what of it I've gotten as well as including a new thing or two that I'd like. It seems I'll have to buy the Okami soundtrack myself (and probably soon before it goes out of print). I got lots of chocolate again, but at the time of this posting, it's already all gone ;>_>

Joe's Goals - What my own goals are

I'd spoken about Joe's Goals beforehand, but I hadn't really mentioned what my goals on there are. So, without further ado:

Chores (+1)
Exercise (+1) - Last check 7 days ago
Wrote (+1) - Last check 31 days ago
Coded (+1) - Last check 11 days ago
Blogged (+1)
Added todo item (+1) - Strange as this item may seem, this is to encourage myself to remember things, especially things I need to do.
Completed todo item (+1)
Been outside for a while (+1)
Cleaned / Cooked (+1) - Placed separately from "chores" as expansion, not chores with that description
Filtered Mom's e-mails (+1) - This one is likely to get archived as now most of the spam in her inbox gets correctly tagged as "bulk" anyway, which her OE now has a filter (or "rule") for.
Been to Joe's Goals (+0) - Used as a tracker
Socialised (+1)
Changed bed sheets (+1) - Set as valid for only one particular day (Saturday); I'm trying to get myself to do it always on that day, and not on other days, for various reasons. Mostly a question of routine.
Ignored things to do (-1)
Ate Out (Alone) (-1)
Haven't been to Joe's Goals (-1)

So now you know what influences the graph, and why it doesn't go negative all that often (I think).

An amusing error message

My job requires me to keep, among other things, lists of documents up to date; Documents of all kinds that have something or other to do with situations and people in other countries. At some point I came upon some links which were no longer valid, and gave this error message:

There is an end-user problem. If you have reached this site from a web link,
- Through your internet options, adjust your privacy settings to allow cookies or
- Check your security settings and make sure this site has not been blocked or
- You are probably using a very slow link that may not work well with this application.
Otherwise you have reached this site through unauthorized means.

Seriously, considering you get this very same error message accessing their index page, can any of those really be true, including it being unauthorized, of all things?

I've decided to change my blog theme again

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:59:09 -0500

While I like the look, I don't like the layout nor the "bulk" of it. I suppose I could edit it, but I figured I could also take a look at what other styles are available. After trying a few out, I made a poll, and here are the candidates. Of course, there's always the option of keeping what I already have. This theme is called "Brown paper" for fairly obvious reasons, though I think I might've picked a more... classy title if I had made the theme.

It's creamy, it's caramely, it's "Chocolate fudge" :9 It also has one of those annoying, stupid fixed widths that I'll have to fix if I pick this one. It does, however, have an interesting way of presenting the "metadata" - that is, the post time, categories, etc. - rather than putting it on the top or bottom of the post, it is on the side. Also, this theme is smart enough to stack the images vertically, rather than horizontally as the current theme does.

The next is "MT-Trendy". Very clean, if also bare, look. A few modifications would have to be applied to this one as well, though thankfully not as many as the current one.

And last but not least is "Reflection". While still clean, it is less bare than Trendy, and offers an interesting (though likely to be removed) menu at the top right. One of the styles it uses, which annoys me, is applied to all headers (as far as I can tell), making every header lowercase. Completely. The rest of the styling is fairly good, though I wonder why so many styles decide to pick orange colors... did I set that somewhere or something? O_o;

And though it is not a candidate per s?, I will mention Fifty50. I'm not planning on using it as I don't like the massive gap at the top (not shown), the fixed width, the red and the all-uppercase headers. However, I do like some of the other styles (such as the black background, the various text colors and formatting, the centered comments link, ...).

Note: The images are only as wide as they are here because that's how wide my browser window is here. You most likely will not get horizontal scrollbars when viewing my blog in any of these themes, so please don't take that into account.
I completely forgot to check how well these display in IE6 and 7, though.

So:
Which theme should I use?

Museum has been re-opened

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:08:54 -0500

Just a short post to let everyone know that as planned, I've reopened the museum; And as I had mentioned, some of the albums aren't available until all their items have been restored.

Play time and work time get confused!

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:06:32 -0400

Recently, a friend of mine told me about a game named Okami, which I've gotten a copy of and so far has been a fairly interesting and very beautifully made game. While I've been able to find a few glitches (mostly related to invisible walls), it's been a fairly solid experience and I've been trying not to play it too much - I've limited myself to only an hour or two per day so that I don't finish it too fast. I also appear not to be the only one who thinks there are similarities to Zelda in this game - I think my sister may enjoy playing this game as well, so perhaps next time she's around I'll introduce her to it :)
I've found the music score to be so beautiful that I've written and highlighted the OST on my wishlist (Which, by the way, has lost most of it's items due to the database loss previously described.). I've already found a download for the whole OST and gotten it, but I'd much rather actually have those five CDs... as well as the game itself. Normally, I'd also back this up with And hey, I'd be supporting the company!, but it turns out that Clover Studio, the creator of Okami, will be dissolved by it's parent company, CAPCOM.
I've got a digit up at 'em.

Speaking of music, though, I've been finishing some uploads at Jamendo, and the music is pretty sweet. I'd recommend having a listen to Simon Slator and/or Saelynh, depending on your music tastes, or perhaps just browing by tags. It's too bad there aren't people as interested as I am in choruses*. Hard to find, that.
Moving on to more technological things: My mother recently decided to have VoIP installed at our house, though I've no idea why. She must've gotten an offer in the mail - I thought I threw that thing in the recycling! - and decided to go for it. Sigh. Though I've not had the chance to verify yet, I think this means that my bypass method can't be used anymore - Mereo, care to test this with me? Anyhow, I'd forgotten that I'd split the TV cable and run it to my room (without Rogers' permission... I guess that's where they make their money) at some point to test something out. So, the guys (Yes, there were three Rogers techs here to install the damned device!) decided to cut every cable except one TV cable, the internet cable and the VoIP cable. This might've been fine, had they picked the right TV cable... so we had to get someone to fix it the next day.

The recent downtime of my server was caused by me shutting down everything so as to completely upgrade and recompile everything. (Technical details: gcc & glibc update, you see; While C programs are actually mostly unaffected by such an upgrade, C++ programs usually all need to be recompiled. The problem is that you can't really tell one from the other, so you pretty much have to recompile everything that's C-based.) Thankfully the process wasn't all that long.
Also, on the subject of the server: Since I've been forgetting to do the changes on the gallery, I've been thinking of allowing access to it right now, but to still exclude the albums I haven't done the work on yet.
And one final thing: It seems more spambots have found me and decided to try to plague me. Although this one, while it gave me several spam comments (~8-10), was using pretty much the same URL each time so I only had to add that to the filter list. It seems even diabetes medication has made it to the spam market.

One of my cousins is supposed to visit near the end of November. Joy.

And finally a local event: Municipal voting has begun, and once again I wasn't on the voters list. I suppose it's not all that surprising, but anyway, I found it amusing that I didn't even recognize the names of most of these candidates, nevermind knowing who they are or what they're planning. I only know two because one of them keeps getting talked about (though he's apparently not the current mayor?), and the other I saw his ads on the bus about lowering bus fares. Hah.

* A particular type, I should mention. I'm very picky on the subject for some reason, and it's not even a steady mood.

Eating out, Thanksgiving, and Wikis

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:57:42 -0400

I don't seem to blog often anymore. It kind of bothers me, because it usually causes me to forget things, or put stuff in "blocks" (or updates), like this. Then again, I've also been ignoring my todo list... I suppose it's because I'm still getting used to my job. Yes, I know that I don't have to get up that early (I have flexible hours, apparently, but I don't put too much faith in those words.), but while the sleepiness is a little difficult to deal with, there are some perks to getting up early. Not to mention that half the time, the cat wakes me up anyway...

After the second day of work - that is, on the 3rd - I went to The Fox And Feather Pub along with my brother and some of his friends (and his boyfriend). The menu was a little bland, but I went for the shrimp linguine - finding out then what the name of "that sauce I kinda don't like" was - which wasn't too bad. Were it not for the sauce, I probably would have enjoyed it much more - the shrimp and pasta were good, so perhaps I'll go for something else next time or ask if I can get another sauce instead. The night went well and I enjoyed myself, but I think it would have been better if my brother hadn't decided to schedule this on a Tuesday on the second day of work; I really don't understand why he decided to make it that day. Perhaps to celebrate me getting a job, but I really want to avoid being late at my job... I did it too much at my last one and I don't want a repeat performance. I know I can do better than that. The reason I mention all this is because after finishing our meals there, most of them decided they'd go to another pub (or was it a bar?), and I decided I'd go back home (given the time left, I didn't have much of a choice if I wanted to get up early).

Thanksgiving was... interesting. First, I thought that we were going to my sister's new apartment for a dual purpose: For Thanksgiving, naturally, and also to help her move. So, I packed fairly minimally - clothes, a few board games, a this or a that here and there - since I figured that I'd spend most of that weekend helping her move. Turns out that her friends had already helped her move, and that everything she had was out of the old apartment. Well. Have lots of spare time then, don't we? It wasn't so bad, though; I had the sense to bring myself a book, and I also brought my portable media player, and when I wasn't the only one with nothing to do there was the games - I had brought Calypso (didn't get played), Tsuro (played several rounds), Escape Velocity: Nova (didn't get played, but then again, there wasn't a point where only me and my brother weren't doing anything), and Skip-Bo (which, being my mother's favorite, got played quite a bit). We enjoyed ourselves, had fun, yaddi yaddi yadda. Oh, and because Rona was having a sale during that weekend (or at least that Rona did), my brother decided to buy his bathroom tiles at that point. Heh.
The way back, however, is another story. On Monday, approximately three hours away from home, the car suddenly decided to switch into what is apparently called safe mode (This is what the taxi driver called it... but I'll get back to that.). Essentially, it was impossible to get a speed higher than ~60 km/h, and being on the highway, this meant going onto the shoulder to be out of the way. We stopped a few minutes to inspect the engine and such to see if we could find any problems, but the only indications of problems we were getting from the dash were the SERVICE and ENGINE OIL PRESSURE lights, which were no help as the engine appeared to have the proper amount of oil. (Neither my mother nor my brother have CAA coverage at this point, by the way.) So we chugged along to the nearest exit (which thankfully wasn't far at all), and stopped at the outskirts of a small city (or town?) in a gas station. There, we phoned around and as we expected, just about no places were open since it was Thanksgiving Monday. A man getting his car filled up at the gas station helped us, telling us about a few places we could try, as well as inspecting the engine and letting us know where the nearest Saturn car dealer was, etc.. We decided to try to drive down to a bus station, I believe, or the car dealership - I don't quite remember. Either way, we decided that since the status of the car wasn't improving that we'd get the car towed to the dealership, and find an alternate way home.
In itself, this proved to be a challenge. Now, I did say it was Thanksgiving monday, right? Forget this detail a moment and imagine yourself in this situation. Three hours from home, it's approximately noon, and your car breaks down and needs servicing. So you send your car to the dealership... then what? Call a car rental place, right? But this is Thanksgiving Monday! We had stopped at a funeral home (closest parking lot, and also a fairly large and completely empty one), and a lady there was also helpful to us. The rental places that were actually open had no cars for us to rent. The local busses weren't running, and the intercity ones didn't seem to be terribly interested in this city or weren't answering. (And Greyhound's number, for some reason, had a fax machine picking up both lines.) Thankfully, I noticed the VIA Rail station on the bus route map, and so we walked down to that under the hot sun (What a day for it to be hot! It's a good thing I decided to wear my shorts that day.), and asked there what our chances of getting home were. There were a pair of trains that could get us home by about 22 o'clock, and the tickets would cost us...
400$ total.
The only option we had was that once we were at the connecting station, we could try to catch an intercity bus instead, and have the second tickets (the more expensive ones) refunded; This we did. We took a taxi from the train station to the bus station, and during the short five minutes it took to get there, the taxi driver, an ex-Saturn-worker, told us that the car had switched it a safe mode (Just enough power to get you home were some of his words, and really, had we not any other problems, we might have actually been able to drive all the way home in five hours, if I calculated right.) because it detected a major problem; He also told us that during the test drives on Saturn station wagons, 3 out of 5 SAAB transmissions blew on the first day, and therefore this was likely the problem that we were experiencing. While this was grim news, it was nice to have some insight on the situation. When my mother mentioned wanting to sell the car after getting it fixed, he suggested a few brands. Hyundai was one, I believe, and when my mother mentioned she wanted to get a Honda Civic, he said You cannot go wrong with a Civic. (Or did he say Honda? I'm not sure.), which was kind of amusing.
Anyhow, we managed to get bus tickets to go home, and had arrived at the station just in time to catch the bus that was about to leave. My brother sat somewhere in the middle, while my mother and I sat in the front and chatted with the bus driver the whole time. He was a pretty nice guy, talkative, frank and easy to get along with. We spoke on several subjects - like GPSs and bus drivers (such as himself) getting lost while trying to go to new locations - but on the subject of the car he said that the transmission was probably on a special warranty (I didn't catch the word he used - mechanical? Manufacturer?), which was the first bit of good news we got that day.
The rest of the day (what was left of it, anyway - it was about 22 o'clock when we got home) went fairly smoothly...

The good news on that is that it turns out the problem was not the tranmission, but that the catalytic converter got plugged up (Have you ever heard of that?), and the better news is that it was covered by warranty. My mother is going to sell the car because the previous problem she's had (excluding the flickering light/electrical system which hasn't been fixed yet; it's the secondary one and not the important things, so stuff like the inside lights flicker and the beeping sound is intermittent, but the headlights and dash work just fine), was the rack and pinion - covered more or less by warranty (She complained to GM, I believe, and got them to do the work mostly for free - she had only to pay 100$). Have you ever heard of those two problems? Rack and pinion coming apart and the catalytic converter being pluggd up are not car problems I usually hear about. Thus, she's going to get herself a Honda.

Phew. At work and at home I've been experimenting with wikis - mostly a special type of wiki that is self-contained and only uses one file. Currently, I'm using StickWiki to write my work notes in, and am writing my life notes (life, cooking, observations, information, etc.) in a copy of TiddlyWiki which I am planning on uploading occasionally for others to look at, refer to, etc.. What's nice and special about these Wikis is that while they're uneditable online (which can be considered a feature or a depending on your viewpoint), they use only one file, no database, and do not require you to be online to edit them. Thus, you can use them for a large variety of writing purposes - notes, blogs, journals, etc. - and you don't have to worry about moderating changes to them.
Which reminds me, I need to ask my sister if she wants something simpler to blog in, and if comments are something important to her, as she could just use TiddlyWiki (or some variant like StickWiki) if she prefers.

Oh, and those who liked the gallery...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:31:54 -0400

... maybe interested in voting in the current poll, Should the gallery be revived?
It appears G2 doesn't handle it's database being set back all that well.

I think... we're back... (Or: Recovering from a stupid mistake.)

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:04:08 -0400

Some of you may've noticed (though only Mereo asked me about it) that my site suddenly, mysteriously vanished.

The short version is this: I accidentally deleted the database. Last backup was months ago. (Needless to say, flexbackup has been added to various cronjobs.)

The long (and technical) version... ...is this:
I was going through a fairly regular update, when the update script suddenly aborted, saying, "No space left on device.". Sure enough, the /usr partition was completely full. A quick check of the other partitions revealed to me that I had somehow mistaken two of my partitions when I was setting up the server; Thus, /usr had very little space (~ 4 GB) while /var, which needs very little space, had ~35GB.
Oops.
To solve this, I rebooted the server, booted a liveCD (so that I wouldn't be moving stuff belonging to a live system), and began what should have been a fairly simple operation. Well, it was. I began with something similar to:
mv /mnt/realusr/* /mnt/realvar/ && mv /mnt/realvar/* /mnt/realusr/
(I didn't actually use *, mind you; I specified the actual directories so that I wouldn't be moving everything back. I'm just too lazy to relist them here, since it's kind of trivial information anyway.)
Some of you may immediately know what was wrong with that command. In principle, moving everything from one partition to the other, and vice-versa, is all I need to do. There are, however, directories with the same names and mv refused to move those automatically (Otherwise I'd have some real fun sorting out what belonged to what.), and I hadn't noticed the conflicts for some reason.
No big deal. Just rename one set of directories, move them, move the others, then rename them again, right?
Notice from the above commands that I had my usr partition mounted as /mnt/realusr and var as /mnt/realvar. I think what ended up happening with the database (which is normally in /var/lib) was something like this:

cd /mnt/realvar

mv lib /usr

mv didn't complain, as there's normally no lib directory there on the liveCD (I think). It didn't click in that the process went really fast, so naturally, the job being done I issued the next command (reboot):
shutdown -r now
Those of you who have used a liveCD before know what happened to lib.
It, residing in the memory as I accidentally left it, competely vanished.
*sigh*

So much for that bright idea...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:05:50 -0500

So, I was planning on running Apache exclusively under it's own user, that way it wouldn't run under root.
Problem: Ports under 1024 are only allowed access by root. HTTP (Web) is port 80.
So, to work around this problem I told Apache to listen on port 8080, and made the router forward port 80 to port 8080, making this change completely transparent to visitors.
Or so I thought.
If there are any redirections that occur, Apache redirects using port 8080 -- that is, the address the visitor would get isn't http://keilaron.kicks-ass.org/, but instead http://keilaron.kicks-ass.org:8080/, which doesn't work since it isn't forwarded. And it'd look ugly, even if I did forward it.

Ugh. I need to get the new server up and running sooner. Hopefully Apache2 on the new machine will behave better. It may be a Dell, but... well, if it's running Linux, who cares?

As a side note, I've added a link to JumpinJim Productions, which I'm going to help on remaking his site, and adding a contact form.

Another day, another upgrade...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:42:01 -0500

Once again, my blog's been upgraded. 9.0 -> 9.1, so it's nothing much; Most of the fixed bugs didn't apply to this installation.
Unfortunately, it seems to have caused the calendar to display improperly for FireFox users. Sorry about that. If the horizontal scrollbar bothers you, just hide the calendar by clicking on the -.

As for access issues... they continue, but they seem to be more erratic than consistent, which is nice, but not optimal. Honestly, I think I'm going to switch to DSL because of this; Unfortunately, Sympatico is not an option, and I'd have to provider my mother with one hell of a good reason if I want this change to happen.
Not likely.

I while ago, I went to see a Just For Laughs performance live. It wasn't too bad; in fact it was fairly good. But I draw the line there, as the "stupid humour" infection has managed to spread it's poison here as well. Some of the Just For Laughs comedians need to clean up a little.
The opening show / warm-up act done by the "New York Street Boys / Lipton Laugh Trackers" was nice. They did their job well as a warm-up act, and without speaking a single word (if I remember correctly).
Shaun Majumder (Canadian) really doesn't strike me as brillant... especially since his main joke was on a kid in the audience who had just reached puberty - and thus Shaun had nicknamed him "Pubes". Guess what? Some of the comedians also greeted him that way. It was fairly lame, in my opinion. Then again, Shaun never really impressed me: the "Back stage pass with Shaun Majumder" skits during the usual Just For Laughs T.V. episodes were really horrible.
Scott Faulconbridge (Canadian) was fairly good; He did pick on pubes in his opening, but he was the first one on stage, so I suppose he was trying to humour the host (Shaun). Or maybe just using a joke that worked, since (I have to admit) part of the audience did enjoy it. Anyhow, he was a pretty good "start", so I'd place him second best.
Next up was, if I recall correctly, was Ryan Belleville (Canadian). He wasn't all that good, perhaps because I simply didn't like his type of humour, or perhaps because he kept going on the same joke (That beavers supposedly chew off their own testicles as a method of defense.). Next.
Rocky Laporte (USian), who I believe was italian, was a little better than Ryan. He also re-used jokes, but didn't just keep going on the same one; He also is able to go off on a tangent, return from it and keep it funny, which is admirable. I'd class him as third best.
The only black man in the performance (And my mother would also point out there were no females 9.9), Rod "Rodman" Thompson (USian) did okay. I wasn't able to follow very well due to the accent; I've never been very good with that type of accent for some reason =/
Finally, but definitely not least (It's a good thing they placed him last!), was Carl Barron (Australian). Thankfully, I've had some prior experience with the australian accent, so I had no trouble following (Can't say the same for my mother. I feel she missed the best comedian of the set!). He was probably the most original comedian that night, as well as the most applauded. My sides hurt I was laughing so hard. ^_^;
Well, that pretty much wraps it up on that...

I'm finally getting some interview proposals. I have one tomorrow, in fact, and may have another in the near future. Wish I knew what makes me so... uninteresting. =/ I hope I do well on the data-entry job, because it sounds like something I could do excellently - there's nothing like a job you can do without a problem. (I'm not saying I don't want to have to learn, but there's something appealing about not having the fear of going "Oh, I have no idea how to do that.".)

Notes to self: ~~plug-ins~~, ~~template~~, ~~colors~~, users/groups, ~~validity check!~~.

!#$%ing Rogers...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:31:53 -0500

If you can't access my website... ...I'm painfully aware of that at the moment.
It seems no-one can access it at all.
http://keilaron.kicks-ass.org/

The only exception to this so far is Quake/Mereo, but he uses the same ISP (he's only a few streets down, too). I'd like to know why the only thing that occurs on a request is a net reset. What the bloody !#%$?!

I've upgraded S9Y, my blog.

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:51:33 -0500

Notable changes done so far:

_word_ and *word* mark-up as been removed; instead, BBCode support has been installed.
A printer-friendly version of posts are now available (Your browser should automatically use that stylesheet when you print or use the print preview.).
Gravatar seems to be temporarily fubar. At least, mine is.
Show/Hide sidebar items (And there's only one sidebar now)
Polls, Recent Comments, Events (Still to fill), Links Of Interest (Still to change)
Different look and layout

Known issues:

Collapsing the Projects sidebar causes it to vanish entirely.

Of new...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:49:34 -0400

[Server]
Gallery has been upgraded to V2. Much better.
Still to be done is to somehow integrate phpBB and Gallery users together.
Still to be done is to find myself a working MTA. Postfix refuses to work and causes the server (eventually) to freeze without warning. Completely.

[Personal]
I've gotten a new computer desk, but it has yet to be assembled. The box is heavy, and my mother doesn't seem to want to help me lift it upstairs, telling me I should ask my brother for help instead.
I've finished the C# assignment. All that's left is to redundantly comment it, and print it out. I wonder how many marks I'm going to lose for doing much more than I was supposed to, and less than (in different aspects, of course).
I've been rather tired these days. I'm not sure what's going on.

Attention everyone...

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:43:55 -0400

The mail server is now operational again.
Thank you for your patience.
(Lord knows I needed some myself. -_-)

Meow! :3

keilaron@keilaron.ca (Keilaron) — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:21:07 -0400

So Roxie, the dog, stayed here another week... just as I suspected. Apparently, the owner couldn't move into his new home yet, so we had to keep the dog for another week. It wasn't so bad, but the cat was obviously not overjoyed by this. I wasn't too happy either, when I found dog piss dripping into the basement -_-
Anyhow... the dog left yesterday night. She was really happy to see her owner... and I was really happy to see her go >_>
The cat seems to be feeling better, too.

College semester's over, and I did well on my exams, I'd say. Onto the next one!

As for server-related things, it seems things are looking up. Knoppix 4 booted without a hitch, and I was able to get everything up and running again with few problems and corrections. The next reboot will use the official Knoppix 4, not that I think it'll make much of a difference.
Also, while the mail server is still down, it seems that I'll be able to get postfix up and running soon. And my To Do list is looking mighty small now =)

And now, to work on the shoutbox more often.