It’s a shame how it’s pretty much impossible to check older entries on microblogging services. I use twitter and plurk, and every now and then i’d like to check my or someone else’s older entries. Right now i’d be interested about what all those tweeties going on so much nowadays about the riots and general unrest in the middle east wrote when there were riots in Europe (Britain, France, Hungary…). But manually scrolling back thousands of entries only to go back months in the archive? No thanks.

My most visited sites, as per the dropdown list from Chrome. I’m being honest here so don’t laugh if possible.

… i tried to say, i’d be there…

Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the way

(By the way, i can play By the way on the bass, hard as hell, but i can.)

By the way, in case anyone realized there’s a blogpost missing, it’s not really missing, it’s just on an other server. In mid-december me and Glend moved on a VPS, and i wrote it there, but nowadays there are minor (major?) problems around, so i decided to stick with my old and stable space (where i only miss ssh) until it’s all sorted out (and doesn’t shift out of existence for half days randomly).

Actually i pretty much hope i’ll get some details soon, because if it’s not going to get normal before mid-january, i’ll have to extend my current space for another year, otherwise of course i’d move over there completely (and try fixing a mail server, which i couldn’t yet get to work sadly).

We’ll see. Until then, i’m doing just a few things over there: working on the mail server, playing bastet and ninvaders and ftping up stuff that i want to have when i get back to Japan.

Back in the old days, i was using mostly Azureus (back then it was really called Azureus) for torrents. But it was using Java, and my computer was getting slower and weaker, and with many torrents Azureus was as insane resource hog, so i switched to uTorrent. I used uTorrent all the time while i was using Windows, but there’s still no version for linux i’d want to try (a pre-alpha isn’t all about usability and stability), so i was using Vuze again. That meant that when i installed Ubuntu, my first job was to remove the default applications for chatting (i’ve been using Pidgin for years and i don’t plan to change that) and torrents.

But Vuze had problems with my connection. I’m behind an university router, so it could use NAT only occasionally, meaning that either all the torrents seared with mighty 1MB/s speeds or there was no traffic at all. And lately the latter became regular, which was especially troublesome as i had to seed certain torrents.

Then Glend mentioned that Transmission is praised as a seeder client, so i gave it a try, and indeed: where Vuze couldn’t produce any upload, Transmission was seeding without problem. And not only that: downloads work perfectly, without a glitch as well, even where Vuze was complaining about connection problems. So i decided to start using Transmission as my primary torrent client. I’ll only add a few older torrents i want to seed and start a fresh leaf.

Out of curiosity, i watched the first Boxxy video, which is by chance up on youtube in the original version, not some music remix. And this video reminded me of Gaia online, a name i knew i knew, and indeed: i vaguely recall having registered there back in the “good old” AN days (around when this blog started, alongside MapleStory, which, unlike Gaia, i played for a nice while), and today during english class i confirmed it. The valerauko username was taken, and i’m positive that no one else uses that, so i checked and i was registered with my old freemail.hu email. Which is problematic, because i had a random password for that, and i didn’t know that even when i was using that mailbox. So i tried and tried and retried, and finally i hit the right password for the Gaia user. Lucky my set of passwords is a finite set…

I logged in, and after a few minutes (and changing my password) i ended up in the forums’ Panty and Stocking thread. After making a few posts, my computer turned off. Just like that. There was no burnt smell, it wouldn’t turn on again and electricity was on. After checking everything else i checked the most troublesome: i moved the desk to see that the power chord of the computer has somehow fallen out of the plug. Apparently my computer learnt some trolling lately.