I forgot to mention I got a free domain reg with my Dreamhost setup I ordered. So I ended up going with dotnetdotcom.org. Yes I know, it's completely dorky but I like it :).

My problem is I have no ideas what to do with this domain! Suggestions are welcome, even the whacky ones! Mindstorm (stormsim.com) provides all my major services and I have no intentions of going through the stress of moving anything over. In otherwords I'm free to do random stuff on my new domain.

So toss ideas at me!

So back at Gottathink I ran into a slight problem with a customer taking up 11G of our precious 30G spindle on one of the VPS accounts. My boss was (of course) freaking out and wanting to know who it was.

Well unfortunately Gottathink hadn't implemented quotas on any boxes up until that point (I didn't set them up so don't glare at me like that) so I had to whip up something that would tell me the offender quickly.

The following script came to me:

for i in *; do if [ -d $i ]; then du -hs $i; fi; done

What this does is simply find out the size of every directory that exists in the current directory.

It would be really easy to make this recursive so you could pinpoint the problem if need be.

If you need to limit the number of returned records, simply pipe the output through sed or if you're really lazy, grep.

I have no ideas why... I just felt compelled to do it :).

Probably to test out how fast full size images loaded off the host, who knows.

PS: The full size image apparently breaks this Drupal theme... I'll have to look into that.

Okay for those of you who follow the .stormsim.com domains, they've all been moved to a pro account over at Dreamhost. I have to say, I don't like moving stuff off my boxes but Dreamhost lessens the pain. I have full shell access as well as unlimited domain and subdomain hosting plus a ton more. The payment is worth it for the amount of money I'll save on my power bill :).

And hey, if you decide to sign up, pop my e-mail in for the 'referrer': whalenn@cc.wwu.edu. If you do I'll love you forever (they give you a $97 credit per referral and since I'm unemployed that type of a credit would be a true blessing ;)).

Let me know if you have any trouble with the sites on the new host, but the move should be completely transparent for everyone.

Edit: To all of you with accounts on my domains, all of your mail/spam settings remain the same. Mail is still hosted internally on eldalie. This will not change for the forseeable future so rest easy :).

Well I'm jobless. Gottathink apparently didn't have the money (or clients) to afford keeping me on after my contract expired so I'm now officially on the hunt.

I'm looking for anything in web development, Drupal is currently my specialty, or something in hardware. I'm working on getting my C# skills up as it seems that it's a pretty popular language nowadays.

Sysadmining is fine too I'd just prefer to keep my stress levels to a minimum ;).

So I've been pondering getting a Dreamhost account for a bit now and I think I just discovered a reason to do so! A Gallery system.

Admittedly I know I don't have a digital camera (oh how I want one though...) however I know plenty of friends with them and they all seem to be trying to host their galleries off their home lines, which isn't pretty. Pictures + Low Upstream = Sad Browser.

So why not get a Code Monster account and install some Gallery systems for my friends to use? Plus it would give me a nifty place to put large things I don't want being served off my home line.

I figure with a 4TB bandwidth limit that increases by 32GB a month it's not likely the account will go over limit (it had better not!) and with 400G pretty much anything can be stored there.

Anyway that's my thoughts. Any of you that would like a free (fast) place to store images or other large things? Let me know!

Those of you who want access to the friends areas will need to sign up (use a username I can recognize or use an e-mail address you know I have on file :)). I'll drop you into the friends role as soon as I see the e-mail from Drupal.

I'm currently tweaking the site and the theme to my preferences so don't be surprised if you see some changes happening in the near future. This theme is nice but I'm not quite happy about how it looks.

Recommendations are welcome! I'll probably be hacking up some modules to do stuff that Drupal doesn't do but we'll save that for later.

Anyway I must get back to my hacking. Enjoy the new site.

PS: The old blog posts are available here http://nickw.stormsim.com/site/aggregator/sources/1

Just be patient mmkay?