As soon as I switched from the MySQL engine to the sqlite engine with amaroK (the newfangled KDE media player), it works like a top, with no crashes.
Did I mention I like the sound of sqlite?
Well, I think I’m hosted out of San Diego now (no official message from the “webhost”!http://www.textdrive.com yet, though). My IMAP server is not up as of the writing of this post, but I assume everything will come up soon. Textdrive decided to migrate from Dallas to San Diego because the Dallas colo apparently did not exceed or meet expectations. Hopefully better uptime in the future (my only slight complaint with TxD for now). When you’re running an IMAP e-mail account, you need dang near 100% uptime.
In other note, prayers go out to The Big Easy. Hope everybody gets through this nasty one okay.
Night night.
Check the wiki for some details on the new project.
By the way: I haven’t lost interest in Sigma. What I have lost is the time and mind to work on it. We’ll stick with it, see how the semester goes, then see how the next one goes. Just a teaser: I’m thinking about replacing the entire game data storage system with sqlite. This is slowing things down as I think about it. Lots and lots to think about.
I guess that’s why I always have meant this to be an academic project…
It looks like Kubuntu is beginning to interest me. I have it running on a partition, and it is solid, fast (yes, it seems faster than Gentoo to me), and usable. More usable than Fedora running KDE. I’m planning on trying to sell it back home for the “web buffer terminal” computer back at the casa.
What keeps me from it on Zach is the Ubuntu/Debian apt roots. Yes, apt is better than rpm. Much better. Yes, rpm is better than simple tgz Slack packages for a desktop system. No, absolutely nothing is better than portage for anything. Portage is teh r0×0r.
What I don’t like about apt repo’s is that they tend to be political (no libdvdcss, no ffmpeg). We’re not talking illegal stuff, we’re talking fringe stuff. Stuff a hip distro like Ubuntu doesn’t want to touch.
But when you’re running a Myth box (which I definitely am now full time… I loves me my DVR rig), this stuff needs to be one “emerge mythtv” away. I don’t want to fight dependencies, and I don’t care what they say on the Fedora forums… third-party repo’s are noooo good, sonny. FC4 taught me that much in a day.
So, Gentoo it is. Gentoo is pretty bleeding edge; amaroK is crashing fairly regularly, and KDE’s screensaver system still doesn’t work for me. This may be my fault, but this crud just works right off the install on Kubuntu. That’s what you’re “buying” when you choose a DE-specific distro. With Gentoo, KDE is just an optional puzzle piece.
I’m surprised Gentoo even works, let alone that it performs at a level among the best of distros (once it’s running!).
Steve is going to be my Kubuntu field tester. He’ll be running Firefox and Gaim on it (nice GTK vs. QT challenge for the KDE-centric distro), along with any other junk he wants to try. We’ll see how it holds up, especially to a media fiend. How long will it take for him to need to decode a Quicktime or WMA file? Will it be able to grab plugins, or will we need a third party repo for ffmpeg, mplayer, and stuff?
Yeah, and the DVR is great. I’ve got episodes of “Dog the Bounty Hunter”, some movies, new episodes of “Family Guy”, and “American Chopper” all piling up as we speak, along with some sports. It is amazing you can do this for free… with a $120 tuner card… at a superior quality. I am very happy.
Of course, my screensaver keeps wanting to either kick on while I’m watching recordings or never kick on ever. This is embarassing and needs to be fixed… out of the box. This is a problem I have fought for a while with Gentoo. Maybe when KDE 3.4.2 is unmasked to -stable. Oh, and why the smack has that not happened yet? I don’t understand Gentoo’s administrative process yet, so I’m just a cantankerous ignoramus on all that.
I’m so just running an “emerge—sync” over SSH, by the way. Not because I’m a high-level sysadmin who has more computers than monitors. I just like my seat right now and I’m not planning to get up. This is sad.
Textdrive is in the process of changing their colo space. They have a cool photo repository up on flikr, which is pretty neat. Even if gilford does go down every now and then, I really like this company. They know their stuff and they do their best. Above all that, I think that their uptime is at the superior level; they’re just honest when something goes wrong. I appreciate that, and I’m trying to learn something about server admin by reading the status blog.
Anyway…long blog, little substance. Just needed to write some before slipping off to bed.
I just beat my personal best for quality in scrambled egg preparation. Viva el fin de la semana!
The picture is of the server from which this site is served. Weird, huh?
Every time I watch Requiem for a Dream, I finish the movie shivering and depressed. Then, I turn around a few months later and watch it again. Why is that?
I guess because it’s brilliant, and I love the music, and I think the movie is beautiful (at least in its design). It’s also incredibly hard to watch. Maybe that’s why I like it.
What I do know is that it will be hard to get to sleep, and even harder to finish accounting homework.
And so it goes.
Why do I like Textdrive as a host? This is why.
I’m not bug on T-Mobile or prepaid wireless, but these new “Poser Mobile” commercials are hilarious. I never would have expected that someone would take on Boost like that.
Anyway… enjoy the faster page load times. We’re up to Textpattern 4.0 now (released earlier today).
If you have eight minutes to blow, watch this.
If you don’t have eight minutes to blow, you didn’t miss much.
Just one of those things.