Minecraft
I have a confession
25th July 2011 - 22:38 - bob
I have a confession - I've become rather too obsessed with Minecraft.
Anyway, this is a weak attempt to send some traffic to the UK minecraft server page that they have to see if it helps with getting the server that I play on a few new people on it.
Web Analytics Lecture
Back to Southampton again
17th March 2011 - 13:29 - bob
As you may be looking at this - I thought that I'd better put something here.
Back in 2007 I did a brief presentation as part of the Consumer Metrics course for the University of Southampton. It's taken a couple of years, but they asked me back again.
Slides and references follow...
Illiterate Walk
An illiterate walk into Crawley - broken signs
26th October 2010 - 14:43 - bob
We had a little walk into Crawley town to visit the Library (is that ironic? not sure) - without any real effort or detours we spotted the following examples of encoding errors or just plain idiocy.
Firstly, this is probably a character encoding issue, but why it didn't get checked before being printed in three-inch high letters, I really don't know.
Linux Ramdisks
Making things go faster - less waiting on disks
18th August 2010 - 22:01 - bob
Thinking about using /dev/shm for fast storage (in my case for Apache) made me think about ramdisks in general.
The last time I tried anything to do with ramdisks was on my old Amstrad 5286, when I created a massive 1MB (ish) ramdisk under MS DOS 3.3 (probably). This time I was using a £500 server from ebay with 16GB of memory.
pwned
Why can't people just write better code?
10th July 2010 - 21:25 - bob
A few weeks back someone took advantage of some crappy code (thankfully not mine) and successfully compromised my dads site (it wasn't his code either). unfortunately that site is hosted on the same server as this one, so I had to take them all down.
Since then I don't seem to have had much time to fix things (sorry dad) and it's taken a while to get things back to normal.
Working on it.
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