Prepare for some down-time next week!

I've just ordered new hardware for Elftown, and I'll rebuild [Elftron] during next week. It will take a day or so because I have to copy all the image-files to a new harddisk and that takes ages. I'll try to run Elftown with broken images though, so that you at least can access the texts, upload new stuff and see the images already copied during the copying.

The urgent reason to upgrade is that we're running out of space on the harddisk. The second reason is that new modern hardware (motherboard) is needed for more memory and PCIe-cards. Now we'll get 8 GByte of RAM, SATA-disks and an Athlon 64 X2 6400+. It will not solve Elftown's problems with that it's hanging now and then, but it will make the problems at least 50% smaller, I think.

As a side-note I can say that this is almost the same hardware as www.elfwood.com is running. A faster processor and different brand, but the same, memory.

Invite!

I just had a little depressing moments when rejecting even more applications from people who simply don't give a shit about that their presentation is totally unreadable.

More than half of the applications we get (and reject) are from people like that. What irritates me the most is that they on purpose write badly "to look cool" or something. It's one thing to be a moron, but trying hard to be one to irritate people, that's just a plea for a hand in their face.

So please tell some nice people who aren't made to be a waste of space to join Elftown! There must be plenty of them even if I've seen over 20 year old writers with English as their native language who writes worse than a masturbating 13-old who learnt English from movies like Lesbian Spank Inferno.

My first client meeting!

It went pretty well. Kenth explained their plans for the organization, what systems they are planning to build and we discussed a little loosely about what is demanded to build the systems. It's a test-server and an ad server that is in the pipeline.

Hopefully I'll get some valuable knowledges and ideas for my sites too.

Some photos on Community Greenhouse Meeting.

And now [Elftron] knows what to wish for as a Christmas-present

Fusion has demonstrated a solid state drive/drive-controller:
http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34065

At first, hopefully already in December, only 80 GByte, but Elftown's databases are right now 51 GByte so that's enough for 2008, I think (and some databases can be stored on a normal disk).

It will cost about $30 per GByte, which might seem cheap, but as the alternative is RAM, which costs $150 per GByte and there is simply no way to get 80 GBytes of RAM in a single server.

$2400 might seem a lot, but it's nothing compared to a serverfarm.

The thing this would mean for Elftown is that there would be no more "hangs" when Elftown is searching through someone's old messages. And it would of course be able to serve many more people.

Blärgh

Much worse now. And yesterday I suddenly got a headache from hell.

It's getting better when I rest and sleep though. But it's not helping that Lilo is horny and noisy.

Sick

I'm a little sick now, and will take it a little easy. It's really nothing bad, so hopefully the sickness will just forget about me tomorrow. But combined with Monday, it's pretty bad...

Speech about Elftown

I held a speech about Elftown for Lysator's new members last Tuesday. It's of course in Swedish, and there are so far no subtitles, but if you understand Swedish or just want to hear it anyway:

<URL:stuff/ElfTown_2007.09.04_xvid.avi>
(It's really not much to see; I'm only speaking.)

Scheduled power failure...

Yepp, today it was time for yet another scheduled power failure! Luckily this time, I didn't have time to inform the ELftowners before it was canceled...

We having about one of these non existing power failures every week now...

But on Sunday! Then there will be a power failure and Elftown will be closed down... So they say...

Sick Hedda

Bläh! I got sick last night and it's not getter better today, but definitely different. I hope I'm OK tomorrow, but it's impossible to tell. I got irritations in my throat last evening, pain in my throat during the night, but this afternoon that is gone and I'm just feeling sick.

Busy Hedda...

A lot of things has been up lately. Some private stuff, and a lot of partying and me being lazy too.

Well, I think the photos explain the party-part: www.linkmeet.com/wiki.html?name=SOF2007Saturday

Now I'm reading through old non-urgent messages, emails and such. Lots of them...

Eurovision party and so on

I was on and helped arrange a Eurovision party this Saturday. Some photos are on www.linkmeet.com/_Eurovision2007 and if you don't know what the Eurovision Song Contest is, take a look on www.elfpack.com/_Eurovision%20Song%20Contest

I was great fun! I have only one more thing to say:
Sieben Sieben Ai lyu lyu Sieben Sieben Ein Zwei! Sieben Sieben Ai lyu lyu Sieben Sieben Ein Zwei Drei... TANZEN!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVHDMDAu0A

Other than that, I've been very busy lately. A friend had some problems and there has generally been much to do. And I should really get started with my tax declaration...

This weekend there is the huge SOF party. I'll go on Thursday and Saturday only. More about that on www.sof2007.com (It's a student orchestra festival with bands and orchestras from entire north of Europe, but mostly Sweden.).

LinCon 2007

I've taken some photos from the game convent LinCon:
www.linkmeet.com/_LinCon2007

Back from Rome

I came home tired and a little sick from Rome yesterday. 

Here are some photos:
www.linkmeet.com/_Rome2007

Rome

I'm going to Rome on Sunday morning, and I'll return back home on Wednesday. So there will be half a week without me. Enjoy!