Archive for April, 2009

Ruby Net:Ftp file upload stalled

I have recently discovered that my Ruby hooks for SVN which I use as a post-commit to upload new revision to FTP server are hanging.
It looked very strange , first file was nicely uploaded but the second was stalled. During debugging process I’ve discovered that any command after STOR is ignored and hanging.
I didn’t find [...]

Civony, now in an alliance

It looks like Civony has really taken me in. It’s much better on performance of the servers nicely playable.
I’ve joined quite nice alliance as well the KoV.

143GB low level

Starting 143GB disk format from controller level , even when it’s 15k RPM is not a good idea, especially at night.

Civony

Recently while looking at one of ads on my site I’ve noticed that there is a new online game Civony.
I’ve signed up a few days ago and I’m still expanding my lands. What is a good sign that game can be entertaining.
Good thing about it is that it’s real time so you don’t have to [...]

Saturn

Yesterday, I was in Poland, having good time with my family.
Yesterday, we had a bonfire at night and my father pulled out his telescope. Just looking at some stars wasn’t that of any fun, they just appears as dots – fact, there is many more than with naked aye, but these are still dots.
After a [...]

Away on extended bank holiday weekend

It’s 4 days long bank holiday weekend in UK. I am enjoying it in poland. It’s great to grab a drill and do some personal projects like a mini server room for my parents, all with racking and proper ventilation.
I’m missing purely technical work sometimes, management function more often becomes annoying and this is great [...]

Google over IPv6 Revised

Last time I wrote about experimenting with forcing www.google.com to run over IPv6.
After some use I’ve notice that it’s breaking a lot of stuff, including YouTube and feeds from ArsTechnica.
I’ve looked a bit dipper and it looks like only www.l.google.com has IPv6 working. To make things easier, I’ve dropped whole google.com and google.co.uk zones. Instead [...]