ratemyrackmountedserver.com expired while I was moving. I decided to leave it dead, as this site kinda bellyflopped anyway. So there’s lots of nice broken links out there to my site… I apologise in advance for all that. I was stuck on dialup for about three weeks
at my new house. It took a little longer to get DSL provisioned than I had planned. So it’s back to mic.kyed.com for a little while.

iPrimus is the shittyest ISP ever. I like how their prepaid access kits were easy to use, but due to them having nonstandard Windows servers running the dialins, I had to use Windows as a gateway for a while. So I ended up setting up a Windows 2003 box with ICS for a few weeks. That’s now been wiped, and was probably comprimised during that time. Good on them. Also due to having to put a Windows server in the way and iPrimus’ very strict 5 hour session limits, my website was down for a while.

I’m now back up again, as of about two weeks ago. I just haven’t been bothered to write anything Now I think I may finally be bothered to get a new domain for myself… maybe. Once I find some spare money.

On the Saturday after my birthday, I had a rather subdued 18th party, due to the fact half of us had the flu. Oh well, good to catch up with some people. Last Saturday I went to LPC with some friends. It was good, though much bigger and slightly more serious than I’m used to. I wasn’t too worried, and we (myself, sherman, Hotsuma, Eecore) managed to trick Thrashbarg into having Windows running on his computer. It was only Windows 95, but Thrashbarg’s earlier zealotry on IRC made it still rather good. He argues that it didn’t count because it wasn’t installed on his hard drive. Oh well

ratemyrackmountedserver.com
notice: I’m moving house next weekend, so the server will be down during this time… until I get my internet connection setup again. Lets hope I can actually get ADSL2+.

Maybe I’ll actually get the rest of my “kit” together and not be stuck on my laptop anymore.

TAFE has been rather easy this week with my lecturer for both classes yesturday being off sick, and today the lesson not going in due to the lecturer not getting their laptop yet. Probably tomorrow will actually be the first real class for the semester. And it’s a Friday morning. I love Friday mornings like I enjoy being dragged along a main road at 100 km/h barefoot. Woohoo.

The first period nobody scored. In the second period the two teams played
more offensively and less defensively. In the third period, the Rhinos
played more defensively, and I thought they were more demoralized and
focused on damage control. The rhinos’ players were taken off a few times.

After the game bloodmatch, we headed to the city, did a bit of a
survey and got dinner at an expensive city café. After, there was some ice cream eaten, and we headed out to Marion. Met up with some of Laska’s friends and
played a couple of games at Marion.

Now, for some more coding fun. Trying to get mod_python session management to work…

James has hair on his feet.

We decided to have an in-night tonight instead of going out wardriving or adventuring or whatever. So, me (Laska), James and Mickey sat around watching various stuff. We were gonna go to the fire station and watch, but eh.. too much effort

Anyway.. gtg.. ciao!

~Laska

I’ll do you one better, I’ll trackback you.

In order to rally numbers better, I’m splitting the ASS into chapters (or “cracks”). The first of which is ASSHOLE. Application forms for ASSHOLE are availible from here to fill out and sumbit electronically. Mental instability will help your application, as well as mood swings, depression and a firearms license…

In other news, btmassgen is coming to a finalised state, which is my simplified yet still powerful UI to create .torrent files. I’m using a native BitTorrent .NET library to do it, with the whole thing written in Visual Basic .NET 2005. There’s still some issues with the BitTorrent library that are stalling a final release.

I thought I’d better also mention g0t.planet?, a random assortment of blogs I’m starting to syndicate from people I know at TAFE. This was formally known as “Planet Trough”, but that name sucked, so I thought I’d better steal borrow a Benji-ism.

Thanks.

• Automatic mass torrent creation. Have a client side application that can go and “walk” through a directory and automatically create torrents based on that. Though the program would first check with the tracker wether or not the file exists, so as to avoid duplication.
• Fix the tracker software so that it uses an SQLite backend, rather than a flatfile system.
• Allow tracking of file requests, and be able to fulfill those requests. So say if you wanted to look for the Star Wars Episode 3 Trailer, you’d file a request. Someone with the trailer would then make a torrent for it and then satisfy the request.
• Basic user tracking. Things like a file upload, request or comment on a file should be identifiable as to whom did it.

I also tested ddrgen, the version I’ve been toying around with in SVN. I’ve fixed Windows 2003 Server support
(as in, the detection of it), though I still have to have a look at Longhorn, making the whole system more portable (ie: remove the dependency on nmap and smbclient), and detecting more Quake 3-based games. Some of those changes will be coming in this week.

I have a nice Windows XP/amd64 trial to play with too now, and I should have a look at getting ddrgen working on Windows 2003 Server… because some people seem to like it as a server over Linux or
BSD boxes.

Finally, the coffee spilt on my laptop during the Lanetarium has completely killed the touchpad and the keyboard is damaged. Both will need replacement, and I’m getting quotes on this done this week. It will probably cost over 100$, so I’m not terribly happy about it. I’m not taking it to Lanetarium anymore, that’s for sure.

The main problem is that with
GROUP BY in your SELECT queries, you have to group every column except count(), min(), max(), etc. generated columns. LIMIT in Oracle is done by putting everything in a subquery and use WHERE rownum. For example:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM oracle_users ORDER BY stress DESC) WHERE rownum <= 5

This would get a list of the top 5 most stressed people in the oracle_users table.

Though it feels great when everything works just as it should.

Update: The final SQL query came in at 2205 bytes. This is to look up a list of
players teams, then figure out how many games they won and how many they lost, and calculate the difference.