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Hey, look, we drew a teapot! |
November 30, 2008 (3:58pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #195 |
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Today is a wonderful day.
A very wonderful day.
Why? Today is the day that I actually start writing the Entropy engine. Today is a day marked by one trivial event: I drew a teacup with the Tao FreeGLUT bindings under C#, and that means today is the first day of development.
"You drew a teacup, whoopty fricken' doo"
Yeah, yeah, shut up, this isn't an achievement at all when it comes to actual physical progress, but it's more of a psychological thing. I finally have absolutely nothing to do, other than typical home work, for the rest of the school year. I have an hour and a half of time with a laptop during school, plus plenty of time after school. While drawing a teacup may seem like the stupidest achievement ever, it still marks the first step in writing the new engine.
Observe the teacup here. |
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And we're back... |
November 29, 2008 (11:40am EST), Posted by klange; Article #194 |
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Sorry about that. Making some minor alterations to my hardware locations. The server is in the same place, but my desktop is now behind a set of cabinets. Long story as to why.
Again, sorry for the down time. Especially when I was posting pictures... |
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More Mail Updates |
November 27, 2008 (2:16pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #193 |
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Alright, this is a quick one, but: the webmail is now available under a secure connection, but it's with a personal certificate, so you'll need to add an exception in FF3 if you want to use it. You can read through the cert to check it out. I'm going to work on moving some other services over as well. |
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And yet more news from the server room... |
November 24, 2008 (8:24pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #192 |
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Our IMAP server is now using proper PAM authentication, so I no longer have a plaintext list of all your passwords. |
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Another Mail Update |
November 23, 2008 (1:15pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #191 |
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One last update for mail: If you have your own domain hosted at O-G (which is... none of you anymore? but hey, maybe in the future), you can set your webmail to send from that domain - assuming I set it up properly for use with Postfix. You can also use @phpwnage.com or @ogunderground.com (note: Any domain set up with the system can be used, and I trust that you'll only use domains that you are part of. Please, don't be an idiot.)
If you have a domain and want a set up on O-G (I'm looking at you, Jarocks, I can even proxy to your own server if you want!), then just pop me a message. |
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More News from the Mail Server |
November 22, 2008 (4:34pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #190 |
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I just added the necessary lines to our postfix configuration to relay through Road Runner, and it seems to be working. That's good news, as it means I should also be able to send to places like my high school, SBC users, and other Road Runner users as well (like my parents, which I just tested and it's working fine).
What does this mean for you? You're now free to use mail.og as a regular mail service. Enjoy.
More on mail.og:
I installed RoundCube a while ago as a simple way to have access to my mail from anywhere with a reasonable browser (despite the warning messages, it'll run fine even in IE5). Recently, I customized the install by adding TinyMCE (for WYSIWYG message editing), a complete Tango icon set, and some LangeNET logos. Just enter your OG account name and password (not your forum account, you need a real user on O-G, if you don't have one, pop me a message), and you'll have a full webmail system with proper outgoing mail. It doesn't automatically filter spam, but with SpamAssassin, you will get ***SPAM*** in front of junk, so just click and drag into your junk folder and all will be well (I'm actually working on this and may end up using an automated solution).
e: Added a default recipe to the global procmail config. Spam is now automatically forwarded to your Junk directory. Enjoy. |
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Ouch. |
November 18, 2008 (4:13pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #189 |
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My (Internet) connection just dropped for the most part. While I may have been using a lot of bandwidth over the past month (23GB down, 17GB up in October, including only days after I installed dd-wrt; 12GB down, 8GB up so far this month), I have no caps. Also, the sudden drop, yet still-kind-of-connected-ness as shown here while pinging Google:
Code: 64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=140 ttl=238 time=39.7 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=142 ttl=238 time=128 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=152 ttl=238 time=155 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=155 ttl=238 time=47.3 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=156 ttl=238 time=36.7 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=161 ttl=238 time=50.3 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=169 ttl=238 time=415 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=172 ttl=238 time=159 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.99: icmp_seq=179 ttl=238 time=184 ms
Leads me to one conclusion: weather. O-G is in Ohio, and when the weather gets crappy, it gets crappy.
Well, you'll know when we're back up. In the meantime, guess I can't work on my Common App...
e: Yep, things are going in and out. Had it for a few minutes. Saw BTGII come online, now things are going right back down the hole.
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Welcome to LangeNET |
November 10, 2008 (3:31pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #188 |
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As you may know, the server on which Oasis-Games.com is hosted does a lot more than run Oasis-Games.com - it also manages my personal email, does an assortment of O-G related sites, runs a few non-OG sites (just added one today, actually) and provides hosting for our team's personal projects. With that in mind, we've made the decision of changing our all-purpose name to reflect something more professional. Being my server - and for the most part, my domains (with a few exceptions that I'm working on) the new service has been named for myself. We are now "LangeNET" - the name my router has been going by for a while now - and while I don't plan on buying any fancy domains to support this name, you will see it on 404, 500, and the complete "server is down" pages in the form of a few limited logos (basically just some fancy text) and other references.
This really means nothing to you, but I felt I should announce it anyway.
Bye! |
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Ping |
November 9, 2008 (9:07pm EST), Posted by klange; Article #187 |
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Just posting to get a new post at the top.
I randomly decided to install Fedora 10 (preview) on my extra partition today.
GL is slow, but unlike Ubuntu right-this-minute, Fedora isn't screeching to a halt after an hour of use.
Have yet to do anything fancy, just set it up with the same theme I use elsewhere and messed with font configurations.
Anyway, Entropy... Yeah... We'll get to it. Eventually. Let's just leave it with "we'll take considerably less time than Duke Nukem Forever did".
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Barack Obama wins! |
November 4, 2008 (11:16pm EST), Posted by TJ; Article #186 |
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Moments ago, it was announced by a depressed Fox news, a happy CNN, and many other news channels that Barack Obama has made history by being the first African American to become the next President of the United States of America!
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