A day with an Apple Xserve

Yesterday I and another person went to the server room to do the basic configuration of the Apple Xserve we have bought, along with its Xserve RAID unit. Despite the general “idea” that anything Apple does is user-friendly, our experience was plagued by problems.

January 30, 2007

There are no movies

By tracking the statistics of my blog, I noticed that many people came here from web pages that linked directly the old multimedia files I had on dennogumi.org when it was still an information page on Akihabara Denno Gumi. However they aren’t here anymore. I also kindly asked to avoid linking them directly when they were up, but I guess some people just don’t read. In short, if you have come here to get movies, or music files, you won’t find them.

January 29, 2007

Wordpress 2.1

I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 yesterday. Aside some minor issues with one of my plugins, that may be resolved in the future, everything went well. If you spot any quirks, let me know here with a comment.

January 25, 2007

At last!

I’m pretty happy. As some of you already know, the book I wrote with my brother is finally out. The preview copies I had ordered arrived yesterday, and I can see it’s pretty impressive to hold the book you have written with your own hands: 470 It only needed a couple of adjustments in the drawings’ captions, so I made it available for everyone last night. All I need to do now is to wait and see the reactions…

January 21, 2007

Playstation 3

That’s right. Thanks to my brother, now I am an owner of this game console (the North American version), along with the game Resistance: Fall of Man. To be precise, I have the 60 Gb version (essential as I can’t use wired connectivity where it is, just wireless)I haven’t had yet the time to play well with this beast, but I managed to take (poor quality) pictures.

January 14, 2007

Editing work

I usually manage to write an entry or two during the weekend. This week was (almost) not the case as my computer time was spent editing and correcting the Lost Innocence manuscript. And when that was done, there were some problems with the cover files so I had to fix those, as well. Last but not least, the FAQ section of stealsaga.net needs an overhaul. Yes, plenty of S.T.E.A.L. related work going on.

January 6, 2007

A newbie approach to GUIs

In the past two days, aside studying the Python basics, I’ve been looking to find a decent GUI toolset to develop user interfaces in Python.

January 5, 2007

Mai-Otome Zwei

Continuing after Mai-Otome, I gave a look to this OAV (first out of four, with the second one coming out in February).

January 3, 2007

Checker mark III

Reading Wesley J. Chun’s excellent Core Python Programming I realized I could definitely improve [my wallpaper checker]({{ site.url }}/2006/12/23/wallpaper-size-checker/), at least internally. That’s what I did today, and aside that, I added an option to view a thumbnail of the images contained in the lists. Note that it is not meant to be an image viewer, just a way to show the images in the list (and I suggest you filter it first if it’s long).

January 1, 2007

Mai-Otome

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A few days ago I finished watching Mai-Otome. The series itself was somewhat old (started in October 2005 and finished on 30th March 2006), but I got around to watch it only recently. I can say I’m satisfied with the overall result: overall Sunrise managed to create a better series than its sister, Mai-HiME.