ADSL Upgraded
Posted by Dataforce
It took 16 hours of downtime, but my ADSL has now been upgraded to 2 mbit 
So this month things have gone really well. I've got all my additional IPs working, I've got 2mbit and tomorrow I'll be getting a Nice new laptop (Acer Travelmate 8006 LMi) a 17" TFT and a nice 300GB SATA Hard Drive for the server this site runs on (Downtime >.<)
Additionally I will most likely get some random extras (I'll post all on here anyway, along with some pictures hopefully )
Also, I got paid my wages for tomorrow, despite the shop being closed on christmas day, so, free money (kinda) But i do have to work New Years day 
- but tbh that aint as good a day as christmas day
I'm in such a good mood today
I've grown kind of fond of the christmas theme colours on the site, i might keep them but remove the christmasy stuff - altho i might not.
I need to make the christmas images have a class=xmas so that i can make the normal theme not show them, but allow the christmas theme to show them - save me readding them next year
On another note, does anyone actually understand the google doodles this christams? (Christmas Doodle) So far they have done 4 doodles,
- Polar Bears Dancing in the snow
- Polar Bears making Snow thingies (a wall and some balls it looks like to me)
- Polar Bears freezing the yellow Google O
- Polar bears haning some bauball thingies off the two O's
They make no sense thise year :/ - hopefully all will be revealed soon
Server Changes
Posted by Dataforce
My home ADSL connection is now multi homed , and can be reached using more than just the standard home.dataforce.org.uk address. 
The other IPs now bound to the server may be used for other purposes, and thus should not be used as a method for connecting to this site.
Additionally I will be upgrading to 2MBits Downstream just before christmas, and thus there will be a short, 10 minute downtime whilst the speed is altered.
Finally, I now have MRTG working and anyone who cares can view the data here
Christmas
Posted by Dataforce
I would jsut like to wish all the random people out there who happen to stumble across this site, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year
As you can see, I have put some random pixel-art xmas-style images in random places, so that the site dun look too boring and changed the theme and smilies to a greeny xmas colour