Blog finally back up. I had to setup nameservers on this server and my machine in the states, ran into loads of problems of course, I can get nothing right off the bat. Money making site took preference so this blog was out in the wind for a few days. Email still not working and […]
Category Archives: kOM-PUT-ER
mysql goes over max connections with loads of sleep queries in processlist
Getting weird problems with my server that put it out of the action for most of the day. The error being reported was too many connections which I thought is a nice problem to have as loads of people using my website. But when I ran ‘SHOW PROCESSLIST;’ in mysql it showed loads of sleep […]
search bebo
The old way to search bebo for old friends was through Google which was crap as they haven’t indexed all profiles yet. The solution? Use Bigulo the Bebo search engine developed by a Des Traynor doing a PhD in computer science. It also lets you check who has the most friends and who’s rated the […]
lossless audio formats
What’s the point of lossless audio like FLAC, APE and probably more? Can anyone actually hear the difference between a 192kbps MP3 album and a FLAC album? And the FLAC is probably four times the size plus you’ve to download extra codecs and have to convert to another format before you upload to your iPod. […]
Another bebo and myspace proxy
I installed another myspace proxy on my Hosting365 linux box which was being used for nothing but downloading rugby.
rapidshare.com and rapidshare.de. Why?
Why did rapidshare.de clone their site to rapidshare.com? They claim their drives were full, why didn’t they just buy new drives and use them on the German site. The two sites are clearly the same company as they allowed me to get a free .com account using a code from my .de one for a […]
Unblock Bebo
A lot of schools and colleges around Ireland like NUIG have blocked Bebo the social networking site. I’ve seen a few methods used like blocking the Bebo IP, blocking anything with ‘bebo’, ‘proxy’ or ‘unblock bebo’ in the the URL. I set up a unblock bebo proxy that obfuscates the URL that seems to work.
webalizer stats after being dugg
I submitted the videos of the ‘chi Martial Arts guy that I stole from boards.ie to Digg in the early morning of Nov 30th and it reached the front page for a short while. It ended up getting about 1,250 diggs and at the start my server couldn’t handle it all, diggmirror couldn’t even get […]
Google Toolbar crashing Firefox 2
I updated to Firefox 2 a few weeks ago and it automatically updated all my extensions. Unfortunately, the browser kept hanging/freezing while surfing. After a process of elimination of extensions it seems the Google Toolbar is causing the problems. I uninstalled it and haven’t had a crash or freeze since. Other people seem to be […]
dialup dempsey, broadband and the election
Someone made this site taking the piss of our minister for broadband suppression. I’m still on dialup at home in county clare, broadband of any kind apart from satellite isn’t available. We’re only 3 miles from Ennis as well, the Information Age Town. Not much good resulted from that little project. How did this country […]