When I was roughly eight years of age I was a knee-high young lad with not much to worry about in the world. A full spec BMX , my-dog-ate-my-homework kind of boy - All I really wanted to do was waste my time playing with Lego or watching cartoons at the time. This all being situated in the UK at the time.
My Mother and Father decided that we should move to Cyprus since my parents didn’t have time to actually “watch me grow up” as I quote my Father. So a few months later we sold everything we had in the UK and moved over to Cyprus.
This is where irony has a sense of bitter humor..and this is where I met the world…
Continue reading ‘A bit about growing up’
Let us take Ubuntu into play here for a minute. Why does Ubuntu look so ugly? It honestly without doubt looks like a TGI Friday’s Jack Daniels steak digestion outcome on a Friday night. Why? Perhaps the best excuse is the lack or marketing research? Or better yet the fact that Linux users get to be “free” with how they want their desktop?
Continue reading ‘Operating Systems & Marketing Research’
As you can apparently see I moved my blog from blupenguin.com to spinthiras.net as I felt it would be more appropriate.
Continue reading ‘Site’s New Home - spinthiras.net’
In my previous article I explained the process in both theory and implementation on how to go about having a setup where you have an OS dependent RAID (Soft-RAID) while as the motherboard having features to assist Soft-RAID we still implement it the same way as we would without such pseudo-features.
In this article I will go on with the process of maintaining RAID setups as I have mentioned in my previous article. This includes replacing and rebuilding which are the most important parts of multi disk setups of this kind.
Continue reading ‘RAID1 on Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server - Part II - Replacing & Rebuilding’
In Cyprus , being the tiny dot on the globe that we are without a hope of any potential GSM providers doing the right thing , we get two choices. MTN (formerly known as Areeba) and the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority GSM service.
I recently became a customer of MTN’s “Pay-Monthly” service and boy-o-boy that was a big mistake. Here’s why….
Continue reading ‘MTN is worse than CyTA’
<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******’s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
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