Enough slacking off.

I hereby state that once new season actually hits the fan I’ll post reviews for the first episodes. Currently lurking in Share for stuff that should already be out by now.

That will be a plain depiction of the series watched by a certain yandere. Please do not expect much out of it.

So what I want to say is…

We all know Yui from Angel Beats!, right. She’s pretty hyperactive and such. Also has long hair.

Now, let’s add two years to her age. Let’s also remove the leather “belts” from the top and let the hair loose. And here’s what we get. Read the rest of this entry »

My server has been successfully moved to a new datacenter. However, reconfiguring everything takes a lot of time, and DNS cache issues are currently the major problem.

If you expected to see another site instead of this one, please don’t panic: it just means that your ISP’s DNS servers are being a bit slow with their cache updates.

You can also use “ipconfig /flushdns” in Windows to force flushing the local OS’s resolver cache.

Most Windows users who deal with the Bittorrent protocol have heard about µTorrent — a native Windows client that has a relatively small resource fingerprint (and the installation/main binary file is about 1Mbyte in size which is an achievement in itself these days).

While it’s a neat little client and does its job pretty well, there is something weird about versions 1.8.1 and above. That “something weird” is their new protocol, based on UDP and called uTP. As you can read in the description, it’s supposed to be playing nice and fair with our networking infrastructure.

Up until 2.0, uTP wasn’t actively enabled, instead, clients were by default set to only receive uTP handshake requests, not initiate them; thus the only case uTP was used is when a client had a 2.0 beta version with uTP enabled for outgoing connections and the receiving client had an UDP port forwarded from their router. Therefore, the amount of transfers which used uTP wasn’t huge. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Letty Whiterock You! – vocals by miko (Alternative Ending); クリスタライズシルバー
2. キャプテン・ムラサのケツアンカー (Captain Murasa’s Ass Anchor) – vocals by 山本 椛 (monotone); キャプテン・ムラサ & 幽霊客船の時空を越えた旅
3. 断罪ヤマザナドゥ！(Danzai Yamaxanadu!) – vocals by 岩杉 夏; 六十年目の東方裁判　～ Fate of Sixty Years
4. てんこの恋愛下克上！エクスクラクラ☆ラメーション！(Tenko’s Love Domination from Below! Excla-lala☆love-me-tion!) – vocals by miko (Alternative Ending); 有頂天変　～ Wonderful Heaven
5. 水橋ジェラシックパーク  (Mizuhashi Jealoussic Park) – vocals by miko (Alternative Ending); 緑眼のジェラシー; appeared first on Chaos Flare by ALiCE’S EMOTiON
6. ひなりんのヤクい関係 (Hinarin’s Revelation of Misfortune) – vocals by 一ノ瀬 月琉 (monotone); 厄神様の通り道 ～ Dark Road & 運命のダークサイド; appeared first on Cradle2 by sound sepher
7. キャプテン・ARMのケツアンカー (Captain ARM’s Ass Anchor) – vocals by ARM; キャプテン・ムラサ

I would like to note that Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu has managed to capture me starting with the first 5 minutes of the first episode. Unlike most other series of this season, this show is now tagged with a label of “definitely watching this”. Based on a light novel series, it’s the chronicles of a war taking place in Fumizuki Academy.

In this school, people are assigned to different classes (from A to F) depending on their score on the placement exam. This might sound pretty just, considering that some people are faster learners and some are not, however there is something to consider. These classes get different treatment, as in, equipment and facilities. The A Class, for example, gets laptops and comfortable sofas, while the F Class has a room in the old building; there are no chairs and the tables are so old that their legs break if you put a schoolbag on top of one of those.

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This show features a loser-class oblivious-subclass male protagonist who is allergic to cats, a childhood friend, and probably some magical stuff along with swords, monsters, and boobs. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve seen a lot of FLAC re-encodes of C77 music releases. While FLAC is nice and fluffy and stuff, Touhou Lossless Music Collection uses TrueAudio.

Therefore, I convert the cuesheets into unicode, leaving the TrueAudio-encoded files intact – I’m sure that it’ll save me quite a bit of bandwidth when a new version of that said collection comes out by placing the .tta files in their respectable subdirectories. I doubt rwx (the guy who posts the collection torrent) would re-encode something into something, when there are TrueAudio encodes available in Japanese P2P networks.

星弾奏結界 天空航進曲 March over sky

dBu music

C77, 30.12.2009, DBCD-0012

01.春の湊に ～ Finding shiners 02.小さな小さな賢将 ～ Spirit of Reepicheep 03.置き傘妖怪囃子 04.時代少女とハイカラ親父 05.キャプテン村紗 ～ A ladle is my friend 06.虎柄の羅刹天 ～ Tiger Raxasa 07.一塵法界の火 08.感情の摩天楼 ～ Liberated White Lotus 09.空の帰り道　～ Landings from sky 10.天空昂進曲 ～ The march over sky Original Score: ZUN (Team Shanghai Alice). Arrangement: dobu usagi (dBu music).

蓮弾奏結界 白夜小夜曲 Serenade at midnight sun

dBu music

C77, 30.12.2009, DBCD-0013

01.藍空の影 02.春の湊に ～ Lost shiners 03.雲間に漏れる一条の光 04.Sky Ruins 05.Wandering Ghost Ship 06.-ESOTERIA- 07.一真法界の火 08.U 4 R 09.擁怪寺 10.百夜些夜曲 ～ Serenade of hundred nights Original Score: ZUN (Team Shanghai Alice). Arrangement: dobu usagi (dBu music).

About ten months ago I wrote a post about running ejabberd 2.0.3 and how I had to re-port it from pkgsrc because the maintainer wasn’t really active. So the maintainer resigned, and the port in question – net-im/ejabberd – has no maintainers specified now. And on November 13th, 2.1.0 came out which introduces some new features, and also has a bug in the listener engine fixed – it can now bind to both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces without problems.

So I wanted the new version on my server.

And yeah, I had to update the port. Took much less time than back in February; this time I only had to update the patches, and remove one of them (the one which was required to build ejabberd using Erlang R12 and below). And of course update the pkg-plist file (packaging list, responsible for the removal of package’s files during deinstall).

There’s still a small problem with ejabberd somehow setting the permissions for Mnesia files to 750 instead of 640, but I’m too tired to fix it right now.

In case anyone is interested, here is the updated port directory (extracts to jabberd2 so you’ll want to extract it in /usr/ports/net-im).

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ejabberd stop
cd
fetch http://media.fujibayashi.jp/software/ejabberd2-port.tar.gz
cd /usr/ports/net-im
tar xvzf ~/ejabberd2-port.tar.gz
cd ejabberd
make deinstall
cd ../ejabberd2
make install
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ejabberd start

There is no need to convert your Mnesia database, however I advise to back it up (before stopping ejabberd) so you can restore in case something goes wrong:

su ejabberd -c "ejabberdctl dump /tmp/ejabberd.dump.`date \"+%Y-%m-%d\"`"

Of course, you can backup the database “as is” after you stop the server by copying /var/spool/ejabberd somewhere or archiving as a .tar file.