Archive for March, 2006

Massive Downtime

Posted on Sunday, March 26th, 2006

We just had about two days of downtime at stephengentle.com! This is the longest in all the two or three months that I have been hosting the site! It was weird, because I went to an IP detection site to get an IP to put in the DNS, and it turned out to be the wrong one. So I went to another site, which told me a different IP, which was also wrong. Finally, I got the correct IP at ipgoat, and everything was OK.

I can’t wait for a static IP! Then I will never have to go through this again!

-Stephen

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Holidays…. Soon

Posted on Friday, March 24th, 2006

Only two weeks to the holidays! I can’t wait to have some time to relax and sleep….. I’ve finished most of my assignments, so the next two weeks should be pretty easy… Except for that maths exam I have on Wednesday.

-Stephen

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New Internet

Posted on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Only one to two months until we get ADSL 2+!!!! TPG has changed the estimated time of completion for ADSL 2+ at the Chapel Hill Telephone exchange. This means that we will be able to get 24 mbps for $50 a month!Thats 48 times as fast as the internet we have now! (512 kbps)

It’s also great beause it has a static IP address, which means that I am going to be able to run a mail server. Then I can use stephen@stephengentle.com for my email address. I do have a mail server now, but a lot of big email providers block dynamic IPs to cut back on spam.

This deal is so awesome, because we can get this with 18GB downloads for the same amount that we are paying now!! Check out these plans!!

To make it even better, the connection will have a static IP address, which will make hosting these sites at home much easier than it is now. It will also make the sites four times faster than they are now!!!

The only way we won’t get this is if they raise their prices heaps, or if they have some issues with the contract we are on.

-Stephen

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SoS and fish

Posted on Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I have been working on SoS a lot in the past few days. The kernel now has IRQ and exception handling, and a memory allocator. The only thing that uses can do is type in text, but you will be able to type in commands when I (hopefully) release the next version in a few days. I am going to try to implement paging next, and then try a simple form of multitasking.

I bought a Siamese fighting fish on Saturday. Its blue, with a black head. It eats very expensive blood worms and blows bubbles….

That sounds so retarded… But its true.

-Stephen

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