Blogging.
Posted by Dataforce
Blogging.. "To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog."
Seems quite easy, get home, think about your day, write about it - whats the difficulty in that?
Looking all over the web there are tons of interesting blogs, where the author has something interesting to say almost every day, or has a story to tell about their life. They make it look so easy.
Yet, here I am, with (what was untill i began this rant) a nice blank text box infront of me, having not posted anything sinse January 11th (Nothing "newsworthy" sinse December 15th) and i cant think of a single thing to write about mysself, or what I've been doing. Is my life that boring and uneventful? It would appear so.
The only interesting factoid I have at the moment, is that on Thursday (Feb 2nd) I have my 2nd Driving Test - I'm relatively confident I can pass, but we'll have to see how it goes.
Oh, and its now possible to comment on the new/blog bits by clicking the "Comments (#)" link.
New Site Finished
Posted by Dataforce
All old data has now been ported to the new site, and the new site has been made active, all old links should still work 
All that doesn't work at present is the boxstats, but thats not crutial.
Internet Connection
Posted by Dataforce
Recently my connection to the internet has been unstable due to modem problems.
My old modem has problems under conditions of high load, and locks up, so i purcahed a new modem.
Using the old setup i had with the old modem, the new modem had problems with renewing the DHCP lease to my server, which was causing connection outages every 5 minutes, for about 30 seconds.
An alternative method caused the connection to have 1 second packetloss every few minutes.
After trying and failing to get the new modem to work, i returned to the old modem for a while (it was the best solution as the connection was stable for longest)
However, last night I discovered that the new modem has a "bridge" mode, that enables me to use a PPPoE client on my server, to connect to my dsl via a PPPoA connection. (The modem handles the translation from PPPoA to/from PPPoE, but not the authentication). This new method is working much better. The new modem doesn't lock up under high loads, and when using bridge mode, i dont have the problems with the broken DHCP server in the firmware.
Hopefully now this site should be alot more stable than before, and i gained an extra IP Address from it, beacuse the modem no longer needs one.