Recently I was ranting about Slicehost being assimilated by Rackspace and how bleak its future seems. I have a few virtual machines hosted by Slicehost and tried out Rackspace to see what I was in for. Deeply saddened by their service I started looking for a new home. Linode looked promising at first – native …
This post is a bit of a brain-dump detailing exactly how/what/why, if you just want the juicy bits skip to the bottom 😉 I’ve been a loyal user of the Apache Web Server for some 10 years. Working on everything from custom server modules (in C) all the way through to bog-standard use cases like …
I’ve been an Slicehost customer for years, and I vividly recall that the sign up process went something like this; Sign up in the website and enter billing information (1 minute), Create a simple VM with Fedora (5 minutes), SSH into the machine and start using it (<1 minute), So basically within 7 minutes of …
A couple of weeks ago I migrated my home computer to Fedora 15 featuring the new GNOME 3 user interface among other significant changes. At first it was quite a struggle to get used to, I almost rolled back to Fedora 14. After persevering for the first few days it got easier to work with, …
UPDATE: Google have finally provided a native Linux client, just login to http://music.google.com/ and click ‘Add Music’ to install it. Last week I received a Beta invite for Google Music. I jumped straight onto it only to meet the message “Music Manager is only available for PC and Mac”. Being an avid Linux user I …
One of the biggest challenges in writing a Bot (autonomous character) for an MMORPG is the navigation. You have a few choices, ordered by complexity; Steering: Quite simply, given a destination you steer the character towards that point. If it gets stuck you try jumping, reversing, strafing left/right. This is obviously the most primitive form of …
Navigation Mesh path finding in MMORPG Bots (updated) Read More »
I recently upgraded my work laptop to the new MacBook Pro 17″ (2.3Ghz i7, 8GB RAM), being ever the tinkerer I was keen to replace the stock HDD for one of the latest SATA III (6Gbps) solid-state drives. After a brief bit of research it boiled down to two options OCZ Vertex 3 240GB or, …
MacBook Pro 17″ 2011 – Intel SSD woes solved (kinda) Read More »
World IPv6 Day is fast approaching (June 8th 2011), excerpt from their website; On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations …
I just noticed that the Earthquake Data I’ve been collating had some minor errors (no lat/long), a quickity quick fix to some of the regular expressions and its back to normal. A total of ~31,020 earthquake events, updated daily from data provided by the fine people involved in the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network project.
With today’s events unfolding in Japan I went looking for sources of earthquake data when I stumbled upon the GEOFON Extended Virtual Network and after a quick bit of scripting I collated all the data into a simple CSV format making it easier to analyse. I have published the collated data on a new page …