I’ve just upgraded my blog to the new wordpress 2.0, which seems to work properly.
Espacially the back-end has got a face lift, which looks and feels really nice.
Update: redid the logo and changed the theme to show the author
And offcourse: Happy newyear!
Merry Christmas!
What would you do when you need to perform something ‘nice’ on a christmas celebration of your high school?
This is what my brother and Noud did.
Hopefully I`ll be able to grab some photo’s soon and upload them of the stunned faces of the suprised people there.
Recently a lot of people seem to be switching from Apache to Lighttpd, which is a webserver that is said to be a lot faster, but even better it is said to have a constant low memory footprint.
I`m currently compiling lighttpd on my vserver (on which this blog runs), and I`ll switch to lighttpd – which should be as easy as setting some configurations for lighttpd to fit in with the current /var/www model I`m using and simply switching off Apache and switching on lighttpd.
I hope there won’t be a lot downtime.
Update Lighttpd and fastcgi don’t seem to really go together on my server configuration, so no lighttpd for a while 
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Google’s new service to information domination, Google Analytics, it a traffic tracker for your website, originally used with their adwords service, seems pretty nice.
Well.. if it would be responsive, that is.
Worse than being slashdotted, a lot of high-traffic bloggers link to it.
Unintentional Distributed Denail of Service.
My blog is worth $2,258.16.
How much is your blog worth?
A new anti-wordpress-spam release of Elliott Back: HashCash 3.0.
Basicly it uses md5, javascript and a bit of AJAX, which is very hard to force except when a spam bot executes the actual javascript.Basicaly it just keeps an “undecipherable†secret which in theory you’d need javascript to decode. The problem with that is that it takes some time to execute the javascript and hopefully will scare the spambot away.
The method isn’t intrusive (although it does require javascript to be turned on), and pretty effective.
Good work Elliot!
I`m back indeed.
Rome is a great city.
Giolitti’s ice-cream tastes great as does tazza d’oro’s espresso.
Best building I visited was the pantheon. I like it more than the sixtian chapel, which is overrated in my humble opinion.
(Go Bernini! Boo Michelangolo)
Anyway, I could fill a few pages with my experiences, but I`m to lazy and too excited with my new toy: google reader!
I’ll be on a school excursion to Rome for 10 days, from tomorrow Thursday the 6th of October untill Saterday the 15th of October.
NB Contact my twin, Bram, if you would have contacted me.
The free wordpress.com blog I got will be used to dump my stupidest, most impulsive and chaotic thoughts or things I want to say.
You’re warned.
Data size prefixes always have caused confusion.
How much is one MB?
Originally it’s 1024 kB, each kB is 1024B. This makes a total of 10243 bytes (1073741824).
Using 1024 instead of 1000 has its roots in the fact that computers usually work with blocks of 1024 bytes (210).
Other people stick to the SI and deem one MB 10003 bytes (1000000000).
To get rid of confusion binary multiples were introduced. One MiB = 10243, where one MB would be 10003.
| Factor | Name | Symbol | Factor | Name | Symbol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10001 | Kilo | k | 10241 | Kibi | Ki |
| 10002 | Mega | M | 10242 | Mebi | Mi |
| 10003 | Giga | G | 10243 | Gibi | Gi |
| 10004 | Tera | T | 10244 | Tebi | Ti |
| 10005 | Peta | P | 10245 | Pebi | Pi |
| 10006 | Exa | E | 10246 | Exbi | Ei |
| 10007 | Zetta | Z | 10247 | Zebi | Zi |
| 10008 | Yotta | Y | 10248 | Yobi | Yi |
When buying something one should take notice of this, because the difference between one GB and one GiB is 74MB (or 70 MiB).
With ever increasing storage capability there would be a time where one VendekaByte would be half of one VendebiByte. (Vendika = 1030)
Sorry for the downtime, it seems that the vServer software hosting this site crashed.
I noticed I had an enourmous amount of spam in my moderation queue.
The plugin I used to protect myself from spam wp-hashcash, seemed to have been mastered by spammers.
A download of the newest version did the trick.
If anyone experiences problems with posting comments, please mail me.
Update I: Seems some spam prevailed even over this version. I’d better get to making my own custom changes to wp-hashcsah.
Update II: I changed the secret codes in the plugin. And I broke it for a while. Either one of those could have resulted in the fortunate (hopefully not temporarilly) stop of spam.
Update III: According to Elliot Back, the creator of hashcash, the spammers bruteforce the secret value. Changing it usually is efficient enough to keep them at bay for a while. He’s working on a newer version which features bigger, thus harder to bruteforce values. I just hope they won’t suck my bandwidth too much.
Update IV: Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of computing power or a hack behind the breaking of the hashcash security -_-, I keep getting spam :-/
I`m sorry for today’s and yesterday’s downtime.
@noud, please don’t play with home brewed assembly in root the next time.
Today it’s my birthday 
. My 17th to be exact.
Recently most linux file systems are atomic. An operation is either performed fully or not at all.
QNTFS even goes further down. Quantumic operations. Something is done, or not done, or done and not done at the same time, depending on the reader, everytime.
Google uses pagerank to give a site a ranking of importance. Pagerank is strange.
One thing to note is that pagerank is logarithmic-ish. A pagerank of 2 is a lot better than just the double of pagerank 1.
By far the most visited site on my server, this blog, has got a page rank of 3.
Other pages on my server which are visited sometimes like w-nz.com, board.w-nz.com have got a pagerank of 2.
What catched my attention is that the page xr12.com, which basicly is a filler containing a link to the xr12 wiki has got a pagerank of 5. This is the same pagerank as a big site like newgrounds!
Maybe google values xr12.com a lot because it is about one topic and is the only site about that topic and that is xr12.com, where this blog has got tons of links about practicly everything from very various sources.
Pagerank itself isn’t the sorting factor for google but rather the context, although pagerank still is an indicator. Maybe google values a few links which are very specific above tons of links about very different topics.
It’s hilarious
Sweden’s OPETH and Jens Bogren have finished the recording and mixing of the group’s latest opus, “Ghost Reveriesâ€. The album was mastered on Thursday (June 16) at the Cutting Room facilities in Stockholm. The total running time will be around 65 minutes.
The two released tracks, Ghost of Perdition and The Grand Conjuration sound promising.
The album will be for sale on my birthday , the 30th of August.
And they will perform it during their Europian tour, which I`ll visit on the 11th of September in the 013 in Tilburg.
I`m thrilled.
It seems that the place to get a gmail invite has been closed down: isnoop.net/gmail.
I haven’t got a place anymore to send my gmail invites so I have them spare again.
If you want a gmail invite, just mail to bas.westerbaan [curly thing] gmail.com.