Ben's Randomness

So in addition to my rampant addiction to using space, I now have an addiction to overkill hardware. I present my latest purchase, a 2u dual Opteron server: My old fileserver had been showing signs of age for a while (the mobo+cpu was bought in early 200... Read More

Something is fucked here, as this site, even from home on a LAN connection is slow as *shite* :| I need to find out WTF is going on, as I’m getting page generation times in *minutes* not seconds :|. Last night it got so bad I had to restart MySQL si... Read More

After much deliberation, I got myself a new laptop. Took me quite a while to decide what to get; I was looking at several models, but in the end decided to go for a refurbished model, as you can pickup half decent models from IBM for like £300. And I̵... Read More

Two lots of news. I got a new server, which I’m nearly finished configuring etc. See the my computers page for more info, and pics when I get some batteries for my camera I’ve also linked with the ZencoNET IRC network ... Read More

After getting into a discussion about ISPs on IRC recently, I’ve started to realise, that as far as UK ISPs go, Tiscali um…rule. :| Every other UK ISP, blocks ports, gives you stupid limits or costs an absolute fortune. For £17.99 a month I ge... Read More