My crappy little server gets an upgrade; perverts game back online; politics

My primary server, "marvin", just got an upgrade from this:

To this:

	Old	New
OS	Heavily modified RedHat 8.0	Xubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"
Processor	AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.8Ghz	Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz
Memory	1GB DDR 333Mhz(2x512MB)	2GB DDR2 800Mhz (soon to be 8GB)
Motherboard	PCChips "piece of shit" M848A	GigaByte GA-EP45C-DS3R
Video	NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra	NVidia, um, *cough*geforce 2*cough*

Ok, so the video isn't that great. It is primarily a server, after all. The FX 5700 ultra is AGP, so I had to rummage around in the scrap bin to find a PCI video card. The next phase of updates will include a PCIe video card and 6GB more memory.

Anyway, since I now have plenty of CPU cycles to spare, I've decided to bring back the "Pick the Perverts" game. Can you tell a pervert just by looking at him?

Also, since this is probably the last blog in the world that hasn't mentioned Obama, here goes: Thank the FSM! He'll have a tough job restoring the economy, but he certainly can't do worse than Dubya.
This is truly history; Obama has broken out of the mold set by the last 43 presidents. Maybe in my lifetime, we could even have an openly gay or Atheist president. One can only hope...

New web server

Wow, it's been almost two years since my last blog post. Not that anyone reads it. I guess that means you don't exist...

Anyway, I've just finished migrating my website to Lighttpd. It was a pain in the ass, but I should get a little more performance out of it.

So, if you see something broken, let me know.

So, saying "fuck" makes me a molester

I just got the following e-mail:

From: Christian ******* <jeremiah.*******@yahoo.com>
To: jspenguin@gmail.com
Subject: site

You are a very sick person.

Your site MOLESTS. You are a molester. The filth you spew out is particularly sickening to me, who was molested by various people from the age of 5-12.

I am NOT a molester, but a victim. Jesus helped me lose most of my anger and all of my bitterness. He has been my only true friend.

Your site sickened me and made me regret going there. I feel violated by the content.

When victims are as gross and perverted as you are, the ONLY hope for them is the Lord.

I have suffered all my life from being made a victim of perverts, but I never became crude and filthy. I never insulted and sickened people. I never would create something that is perverted and sick...and then put it online where many people will be molested by it. If my little child went to your site, I would sue you and see that you went to prison. You are NO BETTER THAN YOUR STEP FATHER!

WAKE UP AND GET YOUR LIFE TOGETHER. BECOME CLEAN, NOT FILTHY.


In case you hadn't noticed, I tend to use strong language. The fact that my site is called "Jspenguin's shitty little web site" should be some clue. But apparently, that makes me a molester. Some little kid is going to be so traumatized by the word "fuck" that he's going to kill himself. Um, no.

Not everyone has an imaginary friend in the sky to talk to. When I get angry about something, I write about it. Go ahead and sue. Try to send me to prison.

All I can say is, thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the first amendment.

More perverts on the Internet

In a previous post, I lamented on the fact that there are a lot of people on the Internet using Google to try to find, well, certain images involving children and reproduction. And I don't mean videos of women giving birth.

Well, they just kept on coming. Here is an excerpt from my web server log. As I said before, do they really expect to find what they're looking for?

REO Speedwagon is awesome!

I just got back from the Wichita River Festival where I saw REO Speedwagon. I got right up next to the stage.

Kevin Cronin:



Bruce Hall:


Bruce Hall and Dave Amato:


This list was taped all over the stage. I guess it's so these old farts can remember what songs to play:


I want this hat!


I don't know who this is, but she looks like Brenna from Penny Arcade.

A 128MB SDRAM chip just fucked me out of a day's work

I just spent nearly a whole day installing Kubuntu on my second machine. After finally getting the base system to install, I managed to get a halfway working system by installing the rest from the internet (I thought it was a problem with the CD-ROM). Several segfaults and lockups later, I found out the dpkg database was corrupted, so I could no longer install any more packages. I finally said "fuck it", wiped the hard drive, and started up the installation again. After about 5 or 6 times trying to install the base package, I started getting kernel panics. That's when it struck me that it might be bad memory. So, I started Memtest86 from the Kubuntu disk, and it found several locations that were dropping bits. I took the chip out, and Kubuntu installed without a hitch.

So, my lesson for the day is that no matter how stable and robust the OS is, on flaky hardware it's about as stable as Windows 95 is on good hardware.

BTW, if you haven't tried Kubuntu, I highly recommend it. There is a live CD available if you want to try it out before you install it.

Pick the Perverts

I just completed my first web-based game, Pick the Perverts. I collected information and pictures of 3,524 convicted criminals from the Kansas Adult Supervised Population Electronic Repository. See if you can identify who has been convicted of a sex offense.