Tag: Technology

Comments Closed

Against my inclinations, I’ve had to close comments down for all but the most recent posts here at Fiat Lux.

Overnight, my installation of MT-Blacklist stopped working. According to this thread over at Jay Allen’s site, the error I’m getting is caused when a web host upgrades perl without rebuilding the Storable perl module. I have a support ticket open at my web host to try to get this fixed, but in the meantime I’m closing down comments to prevent being drowned in crappy comment spam.

Thanks to MT-Close2 for helping to automate the comment closing process!

Blogger hosed?

I can’t get through to any of the Blogger-hosted blogs in my blogroll today. I hope they get their issues straightened out soon, because web traffic to blogs is likely to increase significantly for the next week or so.

PC Update

The computer is more or less functional again, although I have been dragging my feet reinstalling software packages. I’m only about halfway through that particular quagmire so far. I am very tired of reinstalling and resetting all the little settings and options and filters to get things the way I like them, but of course until I do get them all set just so, it doesn’t feel like I’m using “my” computer.

The only good thing about this whole mess is it has caused me to take a hard look at all the crap I have installed and question exactly how much of it I really need to have on my system. For example, do I really need WinZip AND WinRAR? Multiple FTP clients and HTML editors? Old games that I used to like but haven’t played in ages? Bottom line, NO.

More PC Suckiness

As in computers. The hard drive Scott gave me to put into my rebuilt computer rolled over and died tonight. So tomorrow I have to go buy a new hard drive and start the tedious process of reinstalling my whole system AGAIN. 2 more days down the drain.

I think I sucessfully saved my most recent data before the drive completely died, but I won’t know for sure until I reinstall. At worst, I lost 2 weeks of work and emails, plus a few odds and ends like the 4 new iTunes I bought last week.

I am so very not happy right now.

IPv6 Finally

Switching to geek mode for a moment:

After years of debate and delay, an IPv6 nameserver is finally live. For years, IPv6 had been held up as the replacement IP space for when the current supply of IP addresses runs out. That was always deemed an impractical solution because of the technical difficulty of adapting existing Internet infrastructure to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously. So IPv6 languished.

By repurposing IPv6 for next-generation Internet uses (such as putting IP addresses in appliances and cars), the question has been neatly sidestepped. It’s telling that ICANN implemented IPv6 support only for Japan’s (.JP) and Korea’s (.KR) country codes at first.

I’m looking forward to seeing what new devices or applications come out of this move.