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  • Throwback time

    I was browsing the wayback machine and thought I’d post a screenshot of our page back in December 2004. Back when we all had more time for playing around with game servers and fun 🙂

     

  • Vodafone DSL and settings for LinkSys X3500 router

    Since I had to fiddle with the settings at the router here is what finally worked for me:

    RFC 2516 PPPoE

    Multiplexing: LLC
    QoS Type: UBR
    PCR: default (4000)
    SCR: default (4000)
    VPI: 1
    VCI: 32
    DSL Modulation: ADSL2+

    Username: 1und1/xxxx-yyy@online.de
    Password: [your password]

    Note: This works for ADSL based connections. VDSL is a different topic.

  • no more own mail hosting

    Really! I’m fed up with it. Moved my domain’s mail hosting to google apps. Google knows better how to handle spam and it saves me much time.

    So, it makes no difference if you drop me a letter at my gmail address or my address at hypnotix.de : google will read it anyway 😀

  • favourite vim command of the day

    I’m a big fan of writing constants in big letters, in every language. This is perfect for re-editing :

    :gUw

    Puts the current word (“w”) into uppercase (“U”), lowercase would be “u”.

  • man pages ‘in’ firefox

    found of the day: enter e.g. ‘man find’ in the url leads direct to an appropriate page on the net

  • gzip compression

    So oft gesehen und immer gedacht das es den Aufwand nicht Wert sei : gestern Nacht auf “Anraten” des Audit-Tools von Chrome mal die gzip Kompression auf meinem Webserver aktiviert und siehe da : mein phpBB Forum wird (subjektiv gesehen) schneller geladen.

    Auch interessant : statische Inhalte (Bilder und Co.) auf einen anderen Hostnamen auslagern. Mal bei Gelegenheit ausprobieren.

  • Linux kernel swappiness

    actually fiddling around with this : http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

  • busy little server …

    so busy trying to catch up all the requests, just to fail miserably…

    And no, the values shown are not percent : we’re talking about unix load ….

  • good bye CVS …. hello git !

    Nachdem das CVS Repository von meinem Forum auf play-wii.org nicht mehr komplett auschecken wollte (seltsame Fehler bei Binärdateien) habe ich das zum Anlass genommen um auf git zu wechseln. Was mir an git gefällt ist die relativ einfache Handhabung und das Konzept dahinter. SubVersion war mir dann doch noch zu “CVS lastig”.

  • typeless languages

    Today one of our users over at play-wii.org told me that the Ajax chat doesnt show textlines only containing a “0” (zero) in it. Puzzled me for a second when the likely reason came to my mind :
    IF some_textline = 0 THEN no_text_to_print
    Yep, easily to correct but none the less a wonderful bug that shows the weaknesses of typeless languages and if you arent aware of them.