2004-04-01

alright. nayuki.caffeine.nu is now set up at stargate’s datacenter in greentree. i’m going to be moving most of the services on crudpuppy over to nayuki. so far, i’ve moved the web server, mysql server, and shell accounts over to nayuki. i’m in the process of fixing up the mail server real nicely using postfix/mysql/courier-imap. i might use sasl for smtp authentication also. i’m not sure about that yet.

hopefully i’ll be able to get the mail server up and running after this weekend, then it’s probably onto dns.

i think this site is in need of some re-doing. it’s becoming ugly.

2003-12-31

well, i’ve been working on converting this whole page to have a css layout for the past few weeks. unfortunately, thanks to microsoft and co., internet explorer 6.0 completely sucks at rendering css. while i’ve had the code and layout to convert over working fine in mozilla and opera, internet explorer refused to cooperate. the main bug that was showing up was related to the a:hover action in the menu items. when you put the mouse over the menu, it’s supposed to highlight the whole row, but in internet explorer, this would only happen if you put the pointer directly over the text. this was unacceptable. tonight when i was messing around with it, i finally figured out why it was doing that. it had to do with the background. i had it set as “clear” when IE wanted it to be set as “white”.

since that bug got fixed, i figured i might as well convert the whole page over. the other bugs aren’t as major. you might be able to recognize them if you’re using IE6. one of them is in the text in the content box. if you load up the “about” section, you can see it best. once any text goes next to the menu, it gets shifted over a few pixels to the right.

i’m no wizard when it comes to css, so if anyone out there has any suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

2003-11-30

this past friday, while everyone else was shopping, i was at wildwood highlands participating in their second ddr tournament. what a fun time that was. got to see a couple of the really good players show off their stuff. and i even placed second in the maniac division. sean took videos of our stuff and some of the impressive others’. he’s going to capture those when he gets back up to school and then i’ll post them somewhere for you all to grab.

2003-07-20

switched this log section of caffeine.nu to a database backend. fun late night, early morning, boredness.

i can’t stop listening to Blümchen. mmm, hardcore.happy. i highly recommend that you check out some of her stuff.

in other music news, i don’t like the new 311 album. their first album, “music”, is still my favorite of their albums. in my opinion, they’ve gone downhill from the very beginning.

there’s also a new Thrice album. i like it, but it’s no Illusion of Safety. then again, what is?

ever since comcast took over from attbi, my connection has been less than flakey. every so often (usually when i’m asleep or not home), the connection just dies and requires me to renew my dhcp lease. it’s very annoying and i have someone from comcast coming over tuesday to see what he can do about it. i swear to god, if he tells me that it’s crudpuppy, i’m going to snap at him. i haven’t changed anything in crudpuppy’s configs since long before the problems started to arise.

also, earlier today, sparc’s hard drive blew up. *fizz* *smoke* *yanks plug*. lost my dhcpd and named config files. anyone willing to send me a small (2-4gb) 50-pin SCSI drive, please contact me.

another thing. listen-to is really awesome, but their xmms plugin is rather lacking. specifically the id3v2 and ogg support. soooooo, i wrote in my own support for them. get the new scripts here.

okay, back to listening to Blümchen =)

2003-06-11

last week, i got a new laptop. her name is Ayu. she owns you.