I set up a new VPS server last night with Debian + mysql + lighttpd to host all my php stuff (which so far has been on a shared hosting server, which is horrible).
Now this wordpress is running on the new server (Serenity) and it’s alot faster, and I’ll be moving 4-5 other wordpress installs over to this new server in the next couple of days.
That way I can do complete wordpress backups automatically for all wordpress installations and a full mysql dump automatically 
Who can’t remember that godawful piece of crap video format/player called Real Player?
Seeing that format and player failed miserably, RealNetworks inc had to invent another way to push crappy malware infested junk on people, and voila: RealArcade is born.
RealArcade.com is a site which has lots of small games you can buy and download (It’s a really crappy version of Steam).
Here are the effects that have manifested themselves so far while trying to install a Demo of tropix 2:
So my advice to anyone who is contemplating getting a real arcade account or downloading anything from it:
I bought a Saitek Yoke with trottle quadrant for myself as a christmas present
I really like it, and it makes flying (civilian) aircrafts very fun =)
It’s a bit large and bulky to place on the desktop, but it works very well and has a nice authentic feeling.
Let there be USB
As my computer is located in another room, 5 meters away from my desktop, I had to do some changes to the setup when I got this joystick.
I managed to replace 5 five meter long cables going from my computer to my desktop with 2 five meter USB cables (with repeaters). Before I had 2 audio cables (for microphone + headset) and 1 audio cable for the speakers, 2 PS/2 cables for mouse/keyboard, I also removed a s-video cable I was no longer using.
New sound card
Now I have a Creative SB X-FI go! USB sound card on my desk. This is much better than the integrated sound on my motherboard, and I can actually use my microphone to scream out stuff when I play Left 4 dead. I also bought a new headset to replace my old busted one. I got the Creative Fatal1ty gamer headset, which is awesome.
New mouse
I also bought a new USB mouse, as I was SICK of my wireless mouse and it’s appetite for batteries, and often I forgot to charge my spare batteries, so I had to steal the wii-controller batteries from Stacy which always pissed her off. I bought a pretty simple mouse, a Logitech MX518. Which I used before at work. It’s nice to have some extra buttons to bind as “push to talk” button for Ventrilo.
With USB on my desktop, I can now use my bamboo drawing tablet on my main pc, and not just the laptop.
I started watching a new TV series after christmas, figuring I should watch at least ONE tv series that isn’t science fiction.
Chuck is a action comedy (more comedy than action) series about a computer nerd who gets a big database of government secrets uploaded into his brain. He works at Nerd Herd (the support department) of a local electronics retailer who has lots of interesting and weird characters.
After getting the database put in his head, he invoulentarily becomes a “spy” working with two operatives from the NSA and CIA.
The series is filled with humor, interesting situations and is really fun to watch. The series started in 2007, and season 2 just finished. Have only watched the first season yet.
I love all of the nerd humor in the show
And I cant wait for the episode called “Chuck Versus the Delorean” 
I recently bought a cheap drawing tablet, the Bamboo one from Wacom. So far I’m pretty pleased with the tablet and the software that came with it.
Here are some crappy images I made with the pencil and paintbrush tool:
I downloaded a new Java tool today, called VisualVM which was released (version 1.0) yesterday and is going to ship with the SUN JDK starting with JDK 6 release 7.
This is a tool that allows you to view information about the java programs currently running on your computer (or a remote computer). It does not seem to provide as much information as JConsole or JManage, but it still gives the most essential information. Besides the tool is still pretty new (version 1.0), so I’m sure we will see lots of improvement in the near future.
Monitoring provides basic information about uptime, memory usage, threads and some other stuff:
The application also has a rudimentary profiler which allows you to see which methods are using cpu cycles, and which objects are hogging all the memory,
The program can also do a heap dump, allowing you to see the size and number of instances of each class. You can also inspect each and every object to view it’s variables and references:
The profiling part was pretty simple and would benefit from more work, but overall I’m pretty sure this tool(even though a bit low on features/information in it’s current state) will be a big hit, and a good entry to profiling and application management to many people.
A very nice feature I did not take a screenshot of is a visual timeline view of all the threads and which state they are in, very smooth The software is also suppose to let you view core dumps, but did not get a chance to test this feature tonight.
I’ve had this post as a Draft ever since I came back from Austria (which is a weird-ass country by the way), mainly due to the fact that I managed to change ssh port on my server without changing the firewall
So I finally connected a keyboard and screen and set everything up the way they was, which meant I could commit the changes I did to the Trekwar game to the server, and get them on this computer and grab some screen shots.
Friday
It is now possible to move your fleets around the map, Client allows you to press the tile the fleet should move to and then tells the server to move the ships.
Saturyday
Fixed a bug where the local copy of the move orders where not updated properly, implemented the starsystem controll window:
Sunday
Implemented build orders, now possible to build structures on planets. Queue not implemented yet.
Airplane
On the airplane back home I implemented the asteroid belts (high-altitude programming is fun).
Notice the beautiful asteroids drawn in mspaint on my laptop’s touch pad
Goddamn screen, or graphics card.. or both..
I had to connect my Samsung Syncmaster 225bw to the server so that I could change the ssh port back to normal (had changed ssh port, but did not change the firewall, so I was locked out from connecting to it).
The monitor has been connected to my desktop computer using DVI, but I had to connect it to the server using VGA. However when connecting the screen back to the desktop the screen would NOT work using DVI, it only worked in safemode.. I tried lots of crap, searched lots of forums but nothing there worked. In the end I had to boot in VGA mode (640×480) and remove and reinstall the nvidia drivers..
Now everything seems to work fine again, except I lost 1-2 hours of my life (and maybe a week indirectly by the stress, anguish and hatred towards monitors the event caused me).
SERENITY NOW!!!!
After years of faithful service, I made the change from CVS to Subversion (SVN). I installed SVN on the server, and set up the SSH keys on my desktop and got up TortoiseSVN and SVN for eclipse. I used cvs2svn to copy over everything from CVS to SVN (which required about 1-2 hours of removing the Norwegian characters Æ Ø Å from filenames from misc. schoolwork). I like TortoiseSVN much more than TortoiseCVS, but I’ve had some problems with checking out stuff into eclipse. Seems like I have to check in everything as eclipse projects for it to work straight away. I notice that SVN seems a bit slower than CVS (when using it with SSH and pre-authenticated keys), if it becomes a problem then I’ll just install SVN on my windows desktop and mirror the repository on my server.
Everything comes at a price. For example, my new computer though being able to run Crysis pretty smooth, sounds like a small hovercraft. And as requested by Stacy I decided to move the computer out into the hallway.
Step 1: Drill a large hole in the wall between the living room and the hallway, the hole is up under the roof, next to the projector screen
Step 2: Order one 10 meter long DVI cable, 2 PS2 cables, 3x audio cables and wait around 2 weeks 
Step 3: Extend the hole to so that the DVI connector fits trough it
Step 4: Put a junction box over the hole and run all the cables trough it
Step 5: Put the PC in the hallway on top of your weapon safe and connect all the cables, then close up the junction boxes
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Step 6: Enjoy your very tidy desk (that shuttle computer on my desk is my trusty server hosting aakretech.org, etc..)
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The result is really amazing, and the living room is much more quiet and pleasant. And when I walk into the hallway and is hit by that monstrous sound I find it hard to believe I could sit 50 cm from it for hours on end