Archive for March, 2007

Spam.

Right. Who clicked on the spam link?

This blog is now being rapidly attacked by spam comments (which Akismet is conveniently catching. Woot.). It wasn’t being attacked yesterday.

I’ll put the “spam caught” count in the sidebar at some point.

Another crash

The server just crashed rather horribly for unknown reasons related to the FTP server. And then crashed again for good measure. Seems to be okay.. I’ll be checking it for a while.

Boom.

Second Life just closed with about one minute’s warning. The blog only has this to say:

In order to address an issue with an inventory server, Second Life is temporarily limiting login to staff accounts.

I guess there’s a major inventory loss bug or something. <.<

Oops…

Looks like the site crashed while I wasn’t looking. Probably because of this post.

Anyway, it’s back up now, and in the meantime you were able to admire MySQL errors here, the lack of any useful information here, and WordPress’ pretty “Database error” message on this site.

I noticed and brought it up again after 74 minutes of downtime, which I highly doubt anyone noticed.

Another Mathematical Problem

In base 10, what is the smallest multiple of twelve consisting entirely of zeros and ones?
(Hint: there is an easy and fast way to do this. Think aboubt factors of twelve.)

Ways to anger people

Oh, I don’t know, let’s hypocritcally call everyone jerks and jackasses, like some people (e.g. Zack Voom) seem to. While defending an unnamed person with multiple banned alts from something that they really didn’t need defending from (since nothing was being done wrong until they flamed everyone for no reason), they proceeded to say that everyone involved was a jackass. This included themselves, but they didn’t notice this.

Or you could tell your friend not to help someone, because you don’t like the someone they want to help. That’s nice too.

Oh, how I love people like that. -.-

Statistics move along

There are 3,005,119 rows of sim stats on record.

Woo, I’m over 3,000,000 performance samples, and the site hasn’t crashed horribly. It’s also tracking other data (such as concurrency, reliablity, total population, etc.) that doesn’t count towards this – as of typing the figure (it changes every minute), the total is 3,057,653 rows of data.

As well as the data I show on the pages at stats.katharineberry.co.uk, I also generate a map showing a colour coded scale with sim performance shown on a green to red scale, showing best and worst possible performance respectively (White means no data). It’s redone at midnight UTC, and shows the last 24 hours of data.

Continue reading ‘Statistics move along’

Or not.

I hate Capslock. It made the title all-caps. <.<

I also hate SL. It’s impossible not to log on. D:
(So I’m back >.>)

Leaving.

As of now, I am effectively leaving Second Life. While I will not (yet) take any official action to this effect, I will not be logging on.

Maratix Advert – Take Two

This is the second go at an advert for the largely pointless Maratix company: