Alex "Antoligy" Wilson
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- Aug 10, 11
I don't even know why I'm writing a blog about this of all topics. I promised myself I'd write more linux type stuff, and administration stuff in general. Ah well, here goes.
So I woke up fairly early today, at the equivelent of 4AM. Checked out news about the rather heated events going down in the UK, and started packing stuff.
And okay, that was a pun in the title. So yeah, I was having fun wrestling through airport security (three checks, one at entrance, one before passport control, and one afterwards. it would be fine if they actually had the manpower) and then tracking down ever changing gates. That's the plane I finally ended up catching, which in all fairness wasn't too bad. Food sucked, which is to be expected, just bland Pasta w/ Pesto sauce, but on the plus side I did get to drink several litres - a first for me as previously I've only been offered drinks once or twice per flight. The staff were friendly enough, but then again they're paid to be friendly, I won't go into the endless complexities of whether or not they actually cared about us.
Then suddenly a few short hours later, this happened:Anyway moving swiftly on, during the flight I don't think I fell asleep, but I definitely experienced Incuption.
I'll have to get that* checked out at some point, I don't want to have any silly ide-- OH GOD WHY AM I EVEN WRITING A BLOG.THIS IS MY FIRST TIME BLOGGING "PROPERLY".
Airport security was painless here, plenty of manpower and of course no organisational issues. Really a pleasure to pass through.
And then I had the pleasure of a two hour stop in Frankfurt airport. No sarcasm intended, because frankly how can this be a bad thing:
The final airplane was British operated, and was okay - the staff were friendlier than in the first, somewhat. Then again, I might be biased because they were British.So then finally, back in the UK I had a brief scare when my bag didn't appear - but then that turned out to be the fault of some fool who got all of his bags confused.
Finally Taxi GET, and due to all the rioting and police measures we were re-routed the long way round (main road closed as a pre-emptive measure? the only thing I'm worried about is I saw riot vans heading down that road).
Anyway I'm back in the UK, and now I have the pleasure of actually doing things. No more holiday as an excuse.If you're still reading this, I really hope you're feeling okay - after all I'm sure the sheer faggotry of this post is contageous.
* my (f)ailing sense of humor
- Jun 03, 11
So it turns out that self-hosted blogs aren't cool anymore, which probably has something to do with the fact that free hosting is easier to get than the average STD. But anyway, I've moved over my entire blog from an underused wordpress install, to Posterous (because Tumblr isn't quite as easy to migrate to, and doesn't have the same posting flexibility).
Oh, and this thing supports autoposting to various other sites, such as a wordpress blog (Hurr durr) or Tumblr. Which I'm fairly sure is also where most people are gonna see this post.
Nothing much more to add, other than that I've gotta stop being lazy and to get back to work on Scarlet.
P.S. Terraria is pretty cool.
- Dec 30, 10
Now I know that this isn't really anything special, but I've been bored of the stock OpenSSH login and have been meaning to change both it, and the motd. So yesterday I finally decided to do some research into what could be used for both.
Now the SSH login itself was simple, just a few changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:Banner /etc/issue.net
and obviously I needed to edit /etc/issue.net to match:Example Welcome
So with the easy part done, I started to look into how I could achieve changing the motd successfully, without it being overwritten on a reboot, and also to change according to user/system status. Research revealed a tool called update-motd that worked in conjunction with login to regenerate a MoTD every time a user logged in. This works by running scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/ in order of preference (by filename, 00 running first and 99 running last etc..), and then appends their output to the MoTD. Something simple likeWelcome back to `hostname`, `id -u`! Right now it is: `date` and you you have `ps -Afl | wc -l` processes running.
Then there's simply the matter of chmodding the script to be executable.chmod +x filename
Of course neither of my examples are what I'm actually using, but they are so extensible that virtually anything could be achieved. You could even run a script to fire up CMatrix on user login. - Dec 02, 10
You may be wondering what you're looking at here,- Intel Core i5 750, 1156 socket, clocked at 2.81GHz
- Asus P7P55D-E LX Motherboard, supporting USB3.0 and SATA6, along as having an `instant-on OS` and neat flashing + overclocking features from both BIOS and desktop OS (via a bundled software suite)
- 4GB Corsair XMS3 Classic RAM (2x2GB) (DDR3), planning to grab another set of these as they're fairly cheap (£~50)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 500GB HDD
- XFX Pro 650W PSU, with `EasyRail` (non-modular)
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB (GDDR5) (PCI-E)
- Edimax EW-7722in Wireless B/G/N Card (PCI)
- LiteOn DVD ROM (48x CD-ROM 18x DVD-ROM), not great, but the cheapest I could find.
- Coolermaster CM 690 II Lite Case (Black) (Mid-tower) (w/o PSU), Fairly good case, lots of options for cooling.
- Nov 24, 10
After several months of procrastination and delays, I've finally begun the process of moving my site from a combination of various free hosts to my VPS. I've also taken the liberty of moving antoligy.com's site's nameservers to CloudFlare, which is basically cloud based DNS with a bunch of other great features (including a free CDN :3). Most of the site has already been moved, with the exception of the main site, as that is in the process of being redesigned and I'm also working on a CMS to power it. That aside, I'm currently writing up a new article type blogpost, as well as planning out new original content (yes, stuff that people actually might care about). EDIT: I also took down StormBit a few weeks ago, planning to do something fun with the domain at some point. The termination of service notice is available: http://StormBit.net/
- Dec 02, 09
Today is a sad day. Plox.Tor.Hu' (hax.tor.hu 's free shell server)'s /home partition died. All the user dirs gone. All the users files are currupted, and unfortunately that includes half my site, unichan.info, gbatemp.net caffeine eggdrop & much more. Here's hoping that they recover some, if not all of it. To be fair, they are the best webhost ever. Even beats most commercial hosting packages (of course, a dedi or even vps pwns it)
In other news, I finally got my google wave invite, but since it's prebeta, there's not much there yet.
Ultimate Collaboration WebApp? yes.
Glorified Email & IM Combo? yes.
Social Network? no way. - Dec 01, 09
Basicly a bunch of skiddie clanfags (ic stands for icheat btw) decided to spam their shitty clan, so by accident this happened...
- Nov 27, 09
Quick note to say: Site overhaul comping up. I'm uh "borrowing" sllide's epic cms script, improving/finishing it. Also I'm gonna fix up the front page with a twitter feed. EDIT: forgot to say that updates.antoligy.com is now live. It's a fuller version of the front-page mini feed I'm making
- Oct 29, 09
Whats worse than diarrhea?
...finding out 10 mins later that Nintendo have announced ANOTHER DS revision.
- Oct 28, 09
IT IS COMPLETE! HELL YEAH! http://spam.antoligy.com sign [email protected] up to as much spam as you can :D
- Oct 12, 09
Links section done, script not 100% automatic, and also CSS doesn't look smexy enough yet. It'll do for now though. http://links.antoligy.com
- Oct 11, 09
Links Section coming soon! I decided not to bother with a long tedious process of copypastaing and changing things, so I actually turned some spiffy ajax libs I "borrowed" into a dynamic page, and will make it read from a text file or something. *SQL is too fancy for a mere links page.
- Oct 04, 09
Site back up :D THIS is why anti-piracy will NEVER succeed
- Sep 20, 09
It would seem that the Central Library have suspended my account (i.e. internet usage, book borrowing etc..) because I exploited their fail self service machines.
- Aug 13, 09
Windows died again, so that was a fun reinstall; backing up my entire HD, installing then copying most of it back...
ONLY TO FIND IT ERASED MY OTHER PARTITIONS. (therefore killing my bootloader) so, I spent another 1/2 hour grabbing arch, burning it, installing and then finally configuring GRUB. Since its not getting connected to the internet for a while (due to shitty USB-ADSL modem) I might as well install Windows 7 later on... after I get a legit serial.
I'm gradually doing everything, updates and content are going on the site (look! theres a front page now!) and soon I'll post the reviews I still have, and the new ones that I'm finishing atm.
EDIT: Killing Floor rocks, I finally beat the patriarch on medium difficulty on solo... next up.. hard
EDIT2: I found a vid that pretty much sums up the Patriarch battle... watch it in HQ for the win.
- Jul 29, 09
Um, I just made a twitter API, that does twittering for you... http://twitter.antoligy.com and Source: http://twitter.antoligy.com/shitter.txt Sentence List: http://twitter.antoligy.com/twats.txt and also, Jdbye has used the source to make a script that auto tweets to his profile: http://jdbye.mtveurope.org/shitter.php
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- @reverie910 YES HERRO WOURD YOU RIKE TO BUY OUR MANY CHEAP INSURANCE IT IS VERY GOOD YES BRIEFCASES FREE INCLUDED CHEAP CHEAP YES HELLO BUY
- @UsuallyDead It's a sign that you need to move. Far, far away. "ecclesia est venire vos"
- @fgghjjkll WHERE DOLLARS MINE GIVE NOW THANKS
- #ToonamisBackBitches http://t.co/KrXw9eSI sup am i cool for knowing about cool kid things? omfgg hi #prowler @xxczx
- @tiffany352 oh man, that's amazing - save'd
- @LukeCasey94 Question 6 was GLORIOUS.
- @nsosorio09 I used to be a blogger just like you, but then I took a NO NO NO I AM NOT DOING THIS
- sup, white westerner here fulfilling his moral obligation and ignoring his guilty conscience by tweeting #prayforlewismighty
- I made some kinda #Portal2 map. It's not particularly challenging, but it might take you a while to figure out. http://t.co/irjVJUMT
- @UsuallyDead please send it to tprevie on my behalf THANKS! <3
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