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I'm off, once again, to go have some fun. Going to ski in Breckenridge for the week. Should be back on Friday (the 5th) or so. I'll have some internet access, so I'll keep an eye on things, I just won't be reviewing applications or anything. Email is probably the best way to get a hold of me if something comes up though. See ya!

Well, the problem was this...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}       !-f
RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico      http://xepher.net/favicon.ico [R,L]


The idea was that if a user doesn't have their own favicon.ico, it'd use the main site one, so the stupid IE browers wouldn't keep hammering for a file that's 404. What it DID do, was result in an endless loop for some reason, causing the browsers to retry several times, for every single page opened. This literally quadrupled the bandwidth, but since no actual file was ever sent, not "bandwidth" was logged by the webserver, thus making it nearly impossible to track down. Since this is sorted, I've removed the limit about outgoing http that I mentioned above. Everything should be back to normal, and hopefully, a bit faster now too.

I'll say this, after 30 hours awake, and banging my head for so long for such a simple mistake, this is going to be a facepalm I remember for a very long time! The weirdest part about it all though, is that I tested the thing, and it WORKED when I first put those lines in place. *shrugs* I'm going to bed!

EDIT: Finally found it... been digging on this for two days. Turns out, I made a really dumb mistake a few weeks ago. See below for updates.

Something is causing a huge spike in bandwidth use this month. I'm about to go over the prepaid amounts bought for the server. I don't think it's any sort of normal use that's doing this, as I'm having a hard time tracking it down. It looks like it might be caused by incoming data, rather than stuff served out. As a temporary measure, I've suspended all OUTGOING traffic on port 80. This means your scripts won't be able to grab remote images and such to process them. Mostly this may break some RSS parsers and such. If you have something that broke, let me know. Most of you shouldn't notice a change though. If this doesn't shake out the problem though, I may have to try some other stuff while tracking it down, and it could be slightly disruptive while I poke around in things. I'll let you know if anything major is going to happen though.

Yeah, I'd definitely be shot around here. I've heard of this before, and it sounds really awesome. I can't believe you've found another reason for me to be jealous of Canada. Seriously! Canada? It's not supposed to work that way!

Both http://adelaide.xepher.net/ and http://adelaide.xepher.net/index.htm show the exact same page for me. What that means is that your browser (or your ISP) is caching the old page. Try holding down shift while hitting the refresh button.

Alright, I've setup your account. You should have an email with login info and instructions.

Ah yes, that was definitely it. IRC is way cooler than a comic anyway. :-)

It doesn't cost me anything to move usually. Well, other than gas to drive the distance. It's really convenient to be unemployed at the time though. :-)

And sadly, I missed all the snow. In san antonio, it was supposed to be bad, snowy weather all day friday, so I put off moving until saturday. Houston got all the snow friday, and it was sunny in SA. Then I moved saturday, and it was clear again here in Houston.

But yeah, in case you haven't deduced it, I'm done moving, and back online in Houston now. I also really want maple syrup now.

There was a comic (I think it was CTRL+ALT+DEL) that said "I'm going to be rich as soon as I invent a device that lets you punch someone through the internet." or something like that. I tried to find it, but the closest I came was this...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080919194338AAkRB6o

I haven't read it, though the reviews aren't too great. Something just doesn't seem right to me about a "continuation" not by Adams himself.

Alright, I'm gonna say yes on this one. I'm in the middle of a move right now though, so I'll setup the account once I get unpacked at the other end. If you haven't heard anything by wednesday, give this thread a poke to remind me and I'll get on it.

Hey, this reminds me... Willsan, you should now be in the administrators group as well now, so you can nuke anything should the need arise. Databits, Gwyn... both of you have been around long enough... I'm giving you global admin permissions as well. Try to ere on the side of caution, but the use of nuclear weapons is authorized if anyone tries to sell pills again. :-)

Well, the art definitely impresses, thought I'm a bit hesitant due to the deadline and nature of the need. What's to say you'll actually keep updating (or otherwise care about) a site after your class assignment is complete? Are you looking for a long term site/project here, or just something to get you through your final exam?

I haven't really seen much of it, but I'm intrigued by the idea. That said though, I fear it might not exactly be the next gmail. It reminds me in many ways of the early Microsoft "Active Desktop" push, along with IE's "push" websites. Nothing caught on there until years later when RSS feeds finally took off. Wave seems like it might be useful, but only in the same way AIM is... that is to say, it only works if everyone is using it.

Anyway, thanks to a friend, it appears I now have some invites to hand out. So if you're raring to get your paws on the newest google noun/verb, lemme know, and I'll toss a few out here. If, on the other hand, all of this was gibberish to you, then don't panic... you'll likely never miss it. :-)

It's a short/easy move this time though. From San Antonio over to Houston. Shouldn't affect xepher.net at all, and really, I just felt like making an announcement. :-)