Hey,
Yeah, back from the dead (at least temporarily), that’s me, not the game…
Roman, thank you for your comments!
As far as Total Domination is concerned; I still have the sources here somewhere. Including the database designs, and all the modifications.
So yes, it’s possible to revive Total Domination. However, what I wonder about these days, are people still interested in something like a turn based, text only, strategy game?
If so, would it be possible to find admins to admin the game? – As for hosting, that’s no problem. I can host it on the same server, it’s always been on, for free.
My problem is;
I don’t have the time to develop and admin the game, I might be able to do some development, but being admin requires you to be active. As long as I am not possible to do so, I cannot be admin. So, if you want Total Domination back, please mail me or just leave something in the comments, pointing me to possible players and admins 
.
Just like this blog, the game can be revived.
As for the Asterisk series I was planning on writing, well, I’ve yet to write the ‘second week’, it was a nice plan, I didn’t however count on being this busy!
I will however post some stuff soon about what the heck I’ve been upto the last few weeks / months.
After some delays caused by issues with the ‘bandwidth provider’ where I host all the traffic sucking content, here it finally is.
The first trial run of me with Asterisk 1.4.
How to install Asterisk 1.4 on Debian Etch with VMWare
Why do I want to do this?
Well, I have experience with Asterisk 1.0 and 1.2, but never had the patience to get 1.4 to work.
Okay, what are ya gonna do?
So what I want to do is create a base system with Etch, install the dependencies from apt, and install Asterisk (together with the web interface) from source.
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Apparently something went wrong yesterday when I wrote an article about how bad Dreamhost.com was sometimes.
I tried finding references to the article on a few sites regarding the problems I wrote about.
Well, my article (here) doesn’t appear to be the only article about Dreamhost.
Just taking a look at stuff like this is almost fun to see (note this customer is on a totally different server): http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/05/03/dreamhost-sucks-at-hosting/.
Or other stories, at:
I really hope these kind of messages gets picked up by the community some time, to force Dreamhost to get their act together!
Note, I tried some of the same kind of commands to prove it’s just policy to place too many users on their servers:
willie:~$ wc -l /etc/passwd
921 /etc/passwd
Meaning there’s a stunning amount of 921 users on the server. Will, let’s just say there’s about 20 to 30 users needed for normal system operation, it still leaves over 800 users!! – Note, I usually won’t place more than 200 to 300 domains (that’s about 75 users) on a server.
Furthermore, this is something I know as well;
Dreamhost and I have been having conversations now for a while about a site which gets 1-2k visitors, and hosts 51GB of transferred static content a day. I thought you might be interested in reading them. On 4/30/2007, I received this email from Brian S. about my site:
Connections to your domain ( static.imgfly.com ) crashed the shared apache service several times this morning. A connection limit has been placed on your site. Being on a shared server means you need to share the resources with other customers. Due to the heavy volume of traffic, other domains on the same service were not able to load. Once the traffic to your site has taperd off, we will gladly remove the connection limit. Please read the appropriate section of our Terms of Service and let us know if you have any questions.
dreamhost.com/tos.html
Okay, granted, I use a ‘little bit’ more traffic (I use about 1 TB per month), but still, the same issues!
People, please realize, Dreamhost is cheap. Cheap doesn’t mean good!
Some time ago, I noticed some kind of promotional thingy on digg.com about Dreamhost.com, and how great it was.
Well, with nothing to loose, I ordered the promotional webhosting package (to compare it to the stuff my own company gives the customers).
I ordered the ‘Crazy domain insane’ package, with 200 GB space, and 2 TB traffic. Which was supposed to be for $190.80 (for 2 years), but due to a coupon code, I was able to get this reduced with another $70 or something.
It sounded too good to be true. Well it was (and is).
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Some time ago I’d written a modification to the XML-RPC lib from Incutio (see http://www.icheb.info/2007/01/28/ixr-incutio-xml-rpc-with-ssl-support/).
But there was more… Today, a friend mailed me with a problem (and solution) for a new problem everyone has missed so far.
I’ve placed a modified version online at: http://www.icheb.nl/icheb_info_blog/IXR/IXR_Library.inc.php_2.txt
If you actually want to know what’s wrong, and why, click the more button below .
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IXR, PHP, XML-RPC
Een paar dagen geleden publiceerde ispam.nl kortstondig (artikel is later gewist) over de nieuwe huisstijl van de SIDN.
Natuurlijk is er een nieuwe huisstijl nodig, de kas kwam immers positief uit.
En inmiddels blijkt dat de nieuwe huisstijl van de omroep SIDN online staat. Het is natuurlijk nog niet officieel, want dat is morgen pas.
Maar het staat al wel online natuurlijk.
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Wat is er tegenwoordig aan de hand met het beginnen van blogs?
Het lijkt wel alsof iedereen die inmiddels een blog heeft (wat ook serieus bezocht wordt), daarna nog een blog wilt beginnen…
Bijvoorbeeld ispam.nl die als eerste (zover ik weet) begon met bloggen over (enkel) hosting gerelateerde onderwerpen.
Daarna kwam van dezelfde initiatiefnemer (mr het is mijn werk om op IRC te hangen) met de roddelsite ispx.nl en nu blijkt dat er blijkbaar zoveel interesse in de Nederlandse taal is, dat er op web-hosting-blog.be nog eentje begonnen is.
In ieder geval bij deze succes aan iedereen die dergelijk nieuws wil publiceren .
I’ve been looking for this for ages now, but this morning I actually found someone that had done this, and is still following the XML-RPC conventions. (I’ve also got a closed source version of this, included in some projects, but it doesn’t follow the XML-RPC conventions anymore).
So I was very glad to find this. But due to me not using a verified SSL certificate, I ran into some problems.
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IXR, PHP, XML-RPC
Een lange tijd geleden heb ik ooit eens mijn ergenissen uitgesproken over het fantastische programma ‘oneclickdownload’, nou, dit heb ik geweten.
Om een of andere reden rankt dit blog behoorlijk hoog op de fantastische kennisreferentiebibliotheek (zo gebruiken mensen het, dus waarom niet zo noemen) Google…
Nu kan ik me niet meer precies herinneren wat OneClickDownload allemaal voor dingen doet met FTD en/of andere dingen. Maar er is (deels) een alternatief beschikbaar.
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DRS 4 meeting? – Die zooi is toch al lang en breed ingevoerd?
Jup, is al een tijdje ingevoerd, maar vandaag was een meeting waarbij verklaard zou worden hoe en wat mbt de mislukt implementatie van het DRS.
Graag had ik erbij willen zijn, maar jammer genoeg kon het niet. Gelukkig heeft iemand bij de SIDN er ook nog aan gedacht om naast het huren van de zaal een webcast te verzorgen, zodat ook deelnemers die er niet waren konden kijken. Wat dan weer wel jammer is, is dat het een live webcast was, dus terugspoelen etc kon niet. Maar toen ik er even naar kon kijken, waren er toch wel een hoop opvallende dingen.
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