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Performance

Sat, 08/24/2002 - 3:49pm

At this moment the new website is life for 12 hours. Yesterday evening I went to see Tibor, as Guus Bosman.nl runs on his server.

When I came there it turned that out that one of the harddisks of the webserver had crashed, for the 2nd time. There wasn't very important data on these disks, but we still tried to recover some of the information during the evening. I the mean time (while Tibor was downloading software) I installed PHP, MySQL and PhpNuke on the webserver, this went pretty smooth. Around 23:15 the installation was complete but there was something technical wrong, that I couldn't find a solution for. I went home, and this morning I found the answer, and I put the website life!

People told me that it looked nice but that the website is too slow to be able to tell. I looked into software caching for PHP, but frankly I don't think that that would really do the trick. It's a low-traffic site, and the performance lag is related to the server: it's an old 486 with 24 MB memory. That's just not strong enough ;)

So if anybody has an old computer with >= 32 MB memory in it, and wants to get rid of it, please let us know, I would be very happy with it.

For now: I hope you'll still enjoy Guus Bosman.NL. For those users with a slow connection or no time to wait I'll put a HTML copy of my logbook online as often as I can. This will be reachable through www.guusbosman.nl/blogger.html.

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dailylife

For a walk

Sat, 08/24/2002 - 10:34am

Went for a small walk and the library-- the weather isn't very nice. Took a book on the history of the States -- Jonathan had a book about it and it looked interesting.

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boardgames

Steden & Ridders In Den Uiver

Sat, 08/24/2002 - 7:56am

Went out with my parents yesterday evening, in a really nice cafe, In den Uiver. Their website doesn't really give a good impression on what kind of bar they are. It's a historical building, and they've decorated it with all kinds of stuff related to aviation.

We played Steden & Ridders again, because Sunday there will be a tournament in Leeuwarden where my parents will play. We were sitting in the back of the cafe, there's a room with two big tables; perfect for playing games. And even though it was Thursday evening it wasn't crowded so there was room enough. There was a life-jazz band playing, really nice.

So it was a very pleasant evening with my parents: games, nice beers, life music... Of course my mother won again. I hope she will play well Sunday also.

Just a reminder for myself: this website contains some other useful information :)

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dailylife

Back home

Wed, 08/21/2002 - 4:10am

Just brought "the Americans" to their train.

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dailylife

Water OK

Tue, 08/20/2002 - 6:27pm

The water works again; just on time.

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internet

Satelite pictures rule!

Tue, 08/20/2002 - 12:18pm

Thanks to Tonie and Joost Blokzijl I discovered the joy of TerraDesk, a tool that contains satellite images of the whole Netherlands!

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internet

Wargames

Tue, 08/20/2002 - 5:04am

It might look like I'm not working at all these day, but I am. Reading on the SHAM today. But still, I couldn't help noticing this picture (found on Slashdot) of a war-simulation game... Way, way cool.

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dailylife

Today's weather

Tue, 08/20/2002 - 4:31am

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dailylife

Huh?!

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 5:37pm

Came back from Amsterdam. Had a Whopper in McDonalds...

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politicsnews

Digital Archive 9/11

Mon, 08/19/2002 - 7:33am

Various digital archives are being created on what happened September 11th. This particular one stores e-mails and Instant Messaging logs from ordinary people. It's a heavy read -- chicken skin. Tens of thousands e-mails like this one have been sent.

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