Monthly Archive for August, 2006

God damnit

I don’t know why I thought Thursday but when I checked the school timetable I’m actually suppoused to come in on Monday for an hour and an half. Fuck.

Monday 28th August 11.30am-12.00pm Prefects meeting with Year Head and Deputy Principal
1.00pm-2.30pm 1st, 5th and 6th Year students meet with Year Heads and Tutors
Tuesday 29th August 11.00am-12.45pm 2nd and 3rd Year students meet with Year Heads and Tutors
Wednesday 30th August 9.30am-3.45pm Full Day of Classes
Thursday 31st August 8.50am-3.45pm Full Day of Classes
Friday 1st September 8.50am-12.25pm Morning classes only.
No afternoon classes to facilitate Staff Meeting

Update: This only annoyed me because I had only finished work on Friday the 25th.

And it is over.

Today I finished up my job for the second summer in a row. According to the job offer letter I got from where I was working, I started on the 12th of June and finished today on the 25th of August. It doesn’t feel like the summer has gone by but it has and on thursday I head back to the suck. Or also known as school where I enter as a 6th year student. I’m a little depressed about having to go back to school so this is all I’m bothered to write.

So I tried again

And gave AICCU another chance.

C:\Documents and Settings\Conor>ping ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie

Pinging ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie [2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=14ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms
Reply from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: time=15ms

Ping statistics for 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms

Shame I can’t figure out why its not saying connected on my WRT54G and dishing out connectivity that way but this will do for the time being. So I’m gonna have to dig about and see if I can get v6 connectivity to my VPS at XenPlanet. So if anyone has any tips I’d be grateful.

Where have you been in the world?

I’ve been to these locations:

And in the US of A, I’ve been to these places:

Where have you been today?

Test your hearing

I’ve seen this doing the rounds but after seeing Adam’s post I decided to test my hearing again, the first time I tested my hearing I managed to get to 17kHz and I was disappointed at that but after seeing this link I retested and managed to hear the full range from 8kHz to 22hHz which is odd. I really can’t explain that.

What is it with…

Irish hosting companies and stupid crap. You may have noticed the fact this site was down for best part of a day in order to shut that mulley lad up. He’s been complaining he can’t access my site from home but he can from work. So in my vain attempt to get things back to speed again I decided a move to Blacknight (I have one of their free ruby on rails accounts) might be the order of the day (I do like Directadmin better then H-Sphere, take note Hosting365)

So I added the domain, changed the nameservers on my domain and went away for a while only to come back to nothing, “hrmm this is taking longer then usual” so I ignored it and worked on other things to come back to nothing again, so now I know something has gone wrong, have I set my nameservers wrong? Did I not do something in Directadmin? A quick trip to dnsreport.com tells me no DNS records are being served for my domains. So thats not right, and I take a quick look through Blacknights FAQ and get told “Contact support to get the domain added to our DNS.”

*sigh*

Why in this day and age do I have to deal with a person to do something as simple as add a DNS entries for a domain? So I send an email off asking for DNS to be setup for this domain and they ask me do I have a hosting package with them.

“…”

No, I’m doing this for a fucking laugh guys. I’ve just left the ticket open and not bothered to respond to it.
And whats with the anal package limits? Why do they feel its necessary to milk me for every penny I have? I’d say this applies to nearly every hosting company. Up to 2 domain supported! wow! You guys are just so kind. Maybe I’ve just become an elitest dedicated server whore and not used to having limits imposed on me but I didn’t think it took that much CPU time to serve an extra domain. If people abuse it then suspend them but don’t punish everyone else for what *might* happen.

I can’t see all the hype….

about Sandy of the Meebo team. I’ve taken a look through their blog recently as I’ve added a Meebo widget to the sidebar (as you have probably noticed) and I’ve seen a comment about is she single. I vaugely remember seeing comments before like that about her and I can’t see the big fuss. If anything Elaine is far better looking.

Elaine (Of meebo fame) > Sandy (Of meebo fame)

Although when I was discussing this with Damien he said that Elaine reminded him of Macaulay Culkin. I don’t really see the link though…

What do you….

Hate more or Like better? It shows you a couple of pictures and then takes guess about what you are like. I don’t know about you but it seemed fairly accurate for me…

IPv6 baby

root@edge:~# ping6 ftp.heanet.ie
PING ftp.heanet.ie (2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=0 ttl=62 time=16.7 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=1 ttl=62 time=17.0 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=2 ttl=62 time=15.8 ms
64 bytes from 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c140: icmp6_seq=3 ttl=62 time=16.9 ms

This was taken from my new WRT54GL router about 30 seconds ago. Its nice to see the packet loss report on Sixxs to drop from 100% to 0%
I’ve gone to Sixxs and now requested a /48 now for my home network. Time will tell how this turns out, this is quite a learning experience for me, I never really got into IPv4 that much so might as well start fresh with IPv6!