Coolvibe's digital moshpit

This is something that’s really up my alley. Eddy Izzard is probably one of my favourite comedians. If you like absurd humor, you might like this as well. Enjoy.

So I’m fudging with memcached to speed up some sites I have running on this box, I run into namespace clashes in wordpress where several blogs use the same key to access their content. So it all blew up. But I fixed this with some jiggery-pokery. The NCA forum is running fine with it though. I don’t have stats yet on how much things have sped up, but it does look like it has some effect. Less queries hitting my database and stuff is served from memory instead of from disk.

I’ll be keeping a eye on it for now. I hope nothing will break :)

Hyves is fundamenteel stuk. Deze claim maak ik niet voor niets. Ze hebben een mechanisme waar mensen zelf kunnen bepalen of ze een hyve niet-ok vinden. Natuurlijk als je een hyve hebt waar en groepje mensen het niet mee eens is, ligt die zo plat, want horden mensen klikken op dat ding en dan gaat ie automatisch weg. Handig, zou je denken, maar er is een probleem hiermee.

Dat niet-ok knopje op een hyve mag van mij blijven, maar wat er gebeurt als er een man of 100 op klikt is absoluut fout. In plaats van meteen die hyve plat te gooien, zou dat ding ook gewoon up kunnen blijven tot er een admin naar kijkt. Als een admin dus inderdaad constateert dat er wat mis is met de inhoud van een hyve, zou hij of zij deze kunnen dichtgooien. Dit is net zoveel werk, alleen geeft het een hoop minder frustratie onder de mensen die die hyve graag frequenteren.

Waarom ik mezelf hierover zo opwind? Omdat mensen het misbruiken en ik er last van heb.

Ever seen signatures like these at the end of a mail message from a sales or recruiting guy? An example:

“Notice: This transmittal and/or attachments may be privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmittal in error, please notify us immediately by reply and immediately delete this message and all its attachments. Thank you.”

Trust me, this one is quite tame. But I have seen a lot worse. The irritating thing is that those things are utterly useless. They just take up space, and they have no legal grounding. Take a look at the word “copying” in that little blurb. Any act on the damn internet is an automatic copy. And the rest is just plain unenforceable.

These kind of signatures tell me a couple of things:

• You are clueless
• You just want to come over as important (and by using that signature, you probably aren’t)
• You have no idea or concept on how the Internet works.
• You are probably not a lawyer, so I won’t take your legal advice if you don’t mind.
• You are probably in sales, recruiting, accounting or some other position that requires you to wear a tie
• Did I say you were clueless?

That said, don’t use those those disclaimers at the end of your mail. It makes you look like a retard.

Got some mail today from people that wanted to know what this Ninth Circle Alliance thing is. They go up on the site, see this forum and it is kinda difficult to get access. It’s not really transparent. So they mail me and ask me what’s up. Especially people that used to frequent its previous incarnation. I will explain in this blog post.

The Ninth Circle Alliance was first born to fill the gap that was left by the disbanding of the League of Independent Satanists. It had lofty goals. It wanted to unite everyone together again, without being an organisation. It was an open effort, accessible by all. It went well for a while, but then came the dreaded disk crash that cost me a lot of data. Since then I have been thinking a lot about what I wanted to do with the Ninth Circle Alliance. And this is what I came up with.

Being open for everyone doesn’t work anymore. Especially since many Left Hand Path-followers don’t like to be in the public. So the Ninth Circle Alliance will be a private group of people with similar interests and various skills. The thing you will see publicly is what the Alliance will produce (blogs, columns, websites, art galleries or whatever its contributors care to kick out into this world). There is some strict screening in place before someone will get access. You will be considered worthy if it’s members deem you worthy.

I think it will work better this way. This way there will be a more dedicated group of people that can stay hidden if they want to, and yet they can enrich themselves by interacting with likeminded people. The exclusivity will (hopefully) make the Ninth Circle Alliance more valuable.

The forum is up. Come on Satanists of the world, go and sign up. Note that registrations have to be approved by me. This is to seperate the wheat from the chaff as to prevent any pseudo-satanic losers from joining. If you want to have access to the forum, just register an account and send me a mail with your username and a short motivation on why you should have access to the forum. I might ask a few questions depending on your motivation. If I activate your account, you will recieve a mail.

Oh, you want to know where the forum is at, huh? Well, it’s here: http://www.ninth-circle-alliance.net/.

Guess what I found? An old song I recorded for the now defunct League of Independent Satanists. I have many fond memories attached to this song. Here it is:

 

 Camp Satan [1:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I wrote it several years ago. I recorded it with a cheap ass microphone, using audacity to mix everything together. And if you don’t like the lyrics, well screw you. :)

It is done! Today I took my 1u box and placed it in the DCG colo facility in Amsterdam. This blog-post is served to you from that machine. Right now, everything is moved. Mail, websites, all of it. And it went almost without a hitch. I was worried that DNS updates would take a long time, but luckily that went quite fast.

It also means that I can get started with really rebuilding the Ninth Circle Alliance again. Yay!

Aanstaande zaterdag is het zover. Dan gaat mijn server naar de colo toe. En dan begint het echte werk pas van het verhuizen van de services die ik nu vanaf thuis draai. Dat gaat nog leuk worden. Gister nog even het servertje nagelopen en nog even geupdate. Hij heeft ook zijn IP adres reeds ingesteld gekregen. Het apparaat is helemaal klaar voor de trip naar Amsterdam.

Misschien komt mijn volgende blog wel van de nieuwe server vandaan. Als deze eenmaal hangt, dan ga ik ook wat actiever worden met de Ninth Circle Alliance.

Zappa was one of the greatest people around in my opinion, here are a couple of reasons why: