Because of the load it generates and the impracticality and quality, I disabled the translations. Even though it was nice to have it on here for a while, the quality of the machine translations is pretty bad, and it was making my blog look pretty stupid. And it mucked up my website stats. So it had to go. Sorry if you used it to read my blog. I guess you will have to learn English or Dutch to understand it.
The system worked like thus: I post a new blog, and it gets queued to be piped though Google Translate. When a translated page is not in the database yet, it redirected you to a translated copy from Google Translate. Having umpteen copies of a page in a database made things slow, besically I had my blog several times in the database, once for every language I offered. Which is kinda unwieldly. And I saw hits from GT, but not on my site. Casually checking translations (especially English to Dutch) gave me something I wasn’t really happy with. So alas. Well, if you want my page translated anyway, you can still type it into google’s translation servers.
I just added automatic translation of my blog posts. Google Translate will translate pages in the background while redirecting you to a google translate page if the translation isn’t in the database yet. So, for people that just don’t speak English, there is hope
It does kinda barf on the Dutch articles I have written though.
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
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.
So, Richard came by yesterday evening to drop the server off (thanks dude). It’s an IBM eServer 336 8873, with one 3.6 Ghz Xeon, 4 GB of RAM and 2×72 GB disks. Nice box. It’s kinda noisy though. So I was sitting in the noise later to install Solaris 10 on the thing, which runs beautifully on it by the way. But the noise is bugging me. So, if anyone knows of a nice solution to quiet that thing down a notch (or two), I’m open for suggestions. Preferably without impairing the machine by too much.
Anyways, I also looked at the power consumption, which is okay for home use. It won’t drive my electric bills up too much.
Another option is to rack it somewhere. Who has got a place to spare for a 1u machine and a spare IP number? For not all too much money please.
Props to Richard. Really, he has some 1u server that he doesn’t use anymore, and I can have it. It’s some dual cpu Xeon box with some disk and mem, and it will do fine as an app/web/mail box. I guess I owe him a favor. So, I now need to find a nice secluded space for it (because the machine can be a bit noisy)
It’s probably going to host the websites, fora and mail. I have to look at the power consumption of the machine as well, but I’ ll figure that out when I get it. It probably has power-management features (like cpu scaling and fan control) which I will probably abuse to cut the operating costs down. So, all in all, it’s a nice project
The Operating System I am going to run on it will probably be Solaris. Why? Well, because I like Solaris.
So, thanks Richard! It’s appreciated.
PS: New blog posts of mine are also twittered as they are published. Neat huh? Oh, my twitter page can be found here.
Ik heb ruzie met mijn server thuis. Tegenwoordig gaat hij zomaar *uit* als ik even flink bezig ben met iets wat een beetje belasting op die server genereert. Gewoon uit. Poef. Geen waarschuwing, geen panics, gewoon *poef* uit en dat was het. Volgens mij is het een hardware probleem, want als ik hem weer opnieuw opstart, dan zeurt ie over dat zijn cpu veel te warm is. De fans erin draaien gewoon, en op volle snelheid ook.
Er is denk ik ook een probleem met de voeding. Er hangen een stuk of 4 joekels van disks in. Dus het is denk ik een combinatie van beide.
Best irritant. Net (ongeveer 5 minuten geleden) ging ie weer dood. Ik word er gestoord van. Ik heb wel een tijdelijke oplossing hoor, maar dat ga ik vanavond even uitzoeken.
Klote apparaat.
PS: Als iemand een 1u servertje ofzo over heeft die hij/zij voor weinig kwijt wil, laat het me even weten, misschien ben ik wel geïnteresseerd.
Because of the load it generates and the impracticality and quality, I disabled the translations. Even though it was nice to have it on here for a while, the quality of the machine translations is pretty bad, and it was making my blog look pretty stupid. And it mucked up my website stats. So it had to go. Sorry if you used it to read my blog. I guess you will have to learn English or Dutch to understand it.
So, Richard came by yesterday evening to drop the server off (thanks dude). It’s an IBM eServer 336 8873, with one 3.6 Ghz Xeon, 4 GB of RAM and 2×72 GB disks. Nice box. It’s kinda noisy though. So I was sitting in the noise later to install Solaris 10 on the thing, which runs beautifully on it by the way. But the noise is bugging me. So, if anyone knows of a nice solution to quiet that thing down a notch (or two), I’m open for suggestions. Preferably without impairing the machine by too much. 
Props to Richard. Really, he has some 1u server that he doesn’t use anymore, and I can have it. It’s some dual cpu Xeon box with some disk and mem, and it will do fine as an app/web/mail box. I guess I owe him a favor. So, I now need to find a nice secluded space for it (because the machine can be a bit noisy)
Godverdomme.
