Archive for November, 2009
well tomorrow its back to the grindstone it was a nice 4.5 day weekend but all good things come to an end. Though towards the end i started feeling totally apathetic towards everything.. must be the “meh.” hoodie i’m wearing 
well black friday rocks and i am defiantly looking forward to cyber monday. zsizsi a good friend of mine in the real world, who also happens to help out with Helixoide happened to be going to BestBuy at 3 in the morning on black friday. He asked me if i wanted anything and i asked for a 20″ monitor which was only 80$ (excluding tax). I wasn’t actually expecting him to get it but he Im’ed me today to tell me he got it. So i can finally get rid of the clunky old CRT monitor that is sitting on my desk.
A while back i got an invite to google wave and have been enjoying it alot since then. When i watched the keynote again after getting an invite i realized that some of the people used phrases from firefly (a space western that was only on for a season) then i realized that google “wave” wave being a form of communication in the firefly universe. there are also quotes embedded in other parts of the system. Besides the heavy scifi influence wave is a pretty cool system. The ability to see what people type n real time is incredible and so is the entire layout of the website. the only gripes i have with it is the way threads are nested and how laggy the entire setup gets in a large conversation with lots of people entering text at the tame time.
Well right now i am working on bringing up celcius. I think i am going to use it for backups and maybe some jabber services. Since it is loud and in my room right now it will probably be turned off at night. I really need to find a way to make it silent. I am also planning on migrating any data i have there to cypher. in other news ircd is a bitch to setup. I am still trying to figure out how to get it so i can have a working network here but i think that is a while away at this point.
Well today there is much to give thanks to. I have successfully fixed vsftpd, corrected domain issues and got the cname aliases working again. Back in the days of celcius (Helixoide’s first server) i had just made a dyndns account and set up wild card cnames. Eventually they disabled that feature for free accounts and the old websites fell into disrepair. Now with our shiny new domain name (helixoide.com) we can get back to work. Helixoide will live on and continue to prosper now that we own helixoide.com. So happy thanksgiving everyone
Well today is a historic day for Helixoide and me. I am going to finally buy helixoide.com. This will hopefully let me begin setting up a better network of servers to do more stuff. At the moment Helixoide consists of Cypher (hosting this blog) Redbull which is down due to router issues but will be back up eventually and Celcius which is down until i get some routing issues figured out. With the domain name i can experiment with all kinds of stuff. This includes irc, wave, jabber, better websites etc. This should also mean the return of posiden.helixoide.com and zsizsi.helixoide.com the two personal blogs of the Helixoide team (only 2 people atm but w/e). Anyway thats all the news so far. This could be the beginning of the Helixoide internet empire <insert evil laugh here>
Well i finally upgraded word press its 10:47 and i have been working on this for about an hour. On redbull i could just use the auto update feature but on cypher, for some reason it hates me. So i uploaded it manually.. Fun. In other news My birthday is tomorrow so yay me. This also means i might go out and actually get a proper domain name for this blog.