Any frequent users of any of the services run on the khobbits.co.uk domain might have noticed that a lot of things have begun to forward to khobbits.net. At the beginning of the month I got an email from the people who currently host khobbits.co.uk who have decided to go bust. Basically by the start of April it wont be long before khobbits.co.uk stops being hosted, khobbits.net I have hosted with Dreamhost, as part of the signup deal I got two domains for free, but they refuse to host khobbits.co.uk due to it having been previously hosted with them for a period of a few weeks back when I was scratting around for hosting after I just bought the domain.
I do have a few ideas about how I can keep the khobbits.co.uk domain active but I don’t see any reason not to move everything to khobbits.net which no matter which way I deal with khobbits.co.uk, will be better hosted.
If anyone can find an issue with any of the domains I manage don’t hesitate to drop me an email. I’ve yet to set up khobbits.net for email, so use the old domain for now.
Edit: Oh no I moved host again, but forgot to make a post about it. This time I got sick of Dreamhost and moved to my self managed Linode VPS. This was useful as i was able to merge all my hosts onto one box. Although I’m not sure if it saves me any money, at least I get experience managing a *nix (Ubuntu) server.
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It’s been a while since I blogged about any post I found on digg, but I read this article (rant?) today about the diving dollar, and why it’s not going to get much better and thought I’d stash it somewhere, and here seemed as good as any. The falling dollar has been on my mind for a while, and I’ve been tracking the exchange rate carefully, mainly to try and get the most from my GBP as possible.
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Well some people have been pestering me on IRC lately for BNC accounts, so I thought i’d make a bit of information available.
You probably wont be able to get a BNC if you are looking here, the path of least resistance is to bug Allegra in #kh, but unless she knows you, you’ll probably get nothing out of it. If you for some reason think I’d accept you where the Allegra path failed, you could drop me a pm.
The chat channel for KHBNC is #kh, although users don’t have to idle here, although on occasion you may find yourself there after a BNC outage or large update.
Rules: Apart from not using the BNC to spam, the only other guideline is don’t do something that spoils the experience for other users, ie, getting banned from a channel, and switching BNC host, just gets BNC hosts banned from channels, and I wont put up with that sort of thing.
This BNC is ran with the money donated to the service, it currently costs around £2.50 a month, so 60p or $2 donations from members that can pay every now and again are welcome.
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Edit: updated a little of the information.
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Over time I have ran quite a few IRC bots, IRC being Internet Relay Chat for people without the know. An IRC bot, is a bit of script or program that does automated tasks on a chat channel. Now, KHBOT was a creation of mine which stood the torrents of time, that is until I lost my most recent changes to hard drive corruption, after that I gave up on the project, and let a bot called RuneScript or rscript take over the niche that my bot had filled.
On IRC channels, with the invention of chanserv, there is little place for an IRC bot to manage access or ops, so it’s left to automate the more complex tasks, such as maintaining topics, hosting games or trivia. I play an RPG called RuneScape, with the goal of levelling up to become better at different skills, I created a mIRC script that would allow the lookup of your ‘score’ in the high score list and return the results in channel. Now as time progressed I began to use this score to produce predictions on what you needed to do to level.
After putting up with rscript for a while, and it’s assorted features I decided it was about time I did something about making a better improved bot with my data. Darwin is the name of the new project, another IRC Runescape statistics bot, but this time it is together with a community I’m part of, called RuneSource, the site and the bot share the same database, a database of exp that we ourselves have gathered and can confirm it’s accuracy, unlike a lot of other sites which tend to share errors.
Darwin is a shared project between me and Filoni, who produces the calcs for RuneSource and also does his own set of statistics logging. Darwin is currently is a sort of eggdrop (TCL) and PHP hybrid, although I will be porting the scripts to mIRC later. The idea is; because most of the processing can be done on php, there only needs one centralised database, where bots can simply act as a relay to pass information. This means a wide span of mIRC and eggdrop bots can all run from one centralised place, so people can run their own bot but have the latest updates without having to do anything.
Btw anyone wanting cheap solid hosting, I would recommend Dreamhost, they do nice solid accounts that do all the PHP and SQL stuff you could ever need, as well as unlimited db’s, separate cPanel accounts and all the other nice stuff.
Well anyway, anyone wanting $50 off their hosting here is a promo code for you: “KH50″.
That promo code will basically waver your $49 setup fee if you set up monthly…which wouldn’t really recommend because you can use the promo code against the actual hosting costs if you pay yearly, because the setup fee is free, and then you will be actually getting months of hosting free.
The promo code also gives you a free domain for the lifetime of the account. I recently went for the 2 year payment. With the happy hosting account that is $164.80 (after promo code) which works out to be $6.86 (or about £3.40) a month.
Edit: updated information march 08.
Now when browsing on the net, I typically bookmark certain websites I believe will come in useful in the future, or sites I might want to check back for updates, or just recommend to friends. I thought it would be best to make a public list of some of these sites and descriptions about about why they own.
Hamachi
This app allows the setup of mini VPNs or virtual private networks, through a similar to IM client interface. This means to the computers you add in side each of your little groups can access your computer as if it was connected via a LAN. In application this means where ever you are, your laptop will have encrypted connection to your computer at home and behave as if it were on a local network. Other uses could be encrypted file sharing using windows shared folders. It also isn’t hard to use remote desktop through this app or set up a proxy, as the connections are encrypted before they leave your laptop, any wifi would never see the raw traffic.
meebo
This is a website that is a sort of web based trillian or gaim. It allows the connection to a few popular IM networks via a easy website. As a bonus the site provides a repeater app which means your home pc can proxy the service so that if your work blocks the site you can simply ‘host’ the site on your home pc.
freeware list
This is a cool site which lists tons of free software that does just about everything, if you ever want a tool or program but dont want to pay for brand name software check this list to see if there is a freeware version. Typical examples are firefox, openoffice, spybot, avg and 7-zip. At the top of the page there is also a list for open source apps.
Process explorer
This is a sysinternals app that is an alternate to the windows taskman for working out what apps are doing what, which one is using all your cpu and memory. It can replace taskman or just run along side it.
Process tamer
This little app sits in your systray and manages the priority of all your applications, when a program starts eating up cpu it will lower the priority so it doesn’t disturb other apps. It can also be used to remember the priority of apps so next time they open they will automatically be set to to whatever you like. You might prefer itunes is set to high so opening firefox doesn’t make it skip a few seconds.
