Musings of a Daydreaming Wanderer » Technology

Locking Down MediaWiki

Daffodilistic — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:42 +0000

OMGWTFBBQ HAX!!!11

Been wanting to post this, but I kept forgetting about it. Recently there has been activity on my wiki site, and I haven’t been paying attention much to the pages on my wiki, until I decided to check all the pages on a whim, and I found out that an automated web crawler had [...]

Mega SSD Review Part 2 – Super Talent MasterDrive OX 64GB

Daffodilistic — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:05:34 +0000

Another piece of hardware to play with today – two Super Talent MasterDrive OX 64GB SSDs off eBay.

Strangely, the box is packaged bigger than the OCZ Apex, even though its an SSD.

Before I show the pictures of the benchmarks, there’s something that I want to highlight. What’s interesting [...]

Faster, Better, Stronger

Daffodilistic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:01:09 +0000

Have moved through two hosts during the changeover period from Dreamhost. The previous one’s support was atrocious, coupled with dodgy caching settings for their hosts (although hosting with them is dirt cheap at $1.66 a month given the current exchange rates), so I moved over to a local server now for $8/month. Was struggling to get [...]

Mega SSD Review Part 1 – OCZ Apex 60GB

Daffodilistic — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:10:11 +0000

I’ve been real busy recently, juggling work with studies and its a really fine line balancing them. I’ve not played with hardware in a long time, so I decided to get an OCZ Apex off eBay, since local stores are selling them at jacked up prices.

Although the shipping costs could [...]

I Wanna Be 17 Again

Daffodilistic — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:50:43 +0000

Caught 17 Again last Friday with HS and EK at Causeway, after an impromptu visit to HS’ place to fix his computer problem. Although audience was made up of primarily young people, I saw quite a few old people watching the show as well. All in all, a funny show, albeit a little bit too short [...]