Updates:

12/30/2003

• I just bought and registered ripperd.com for the next 2 years...I will be doing some testing and reorganization, and obviously renaming things.  It will take a few days though for changes to propagate.  I will try my best not to break anything in the process.  I will also make a re-direct hopefully that will redirect you to the new location of the file that you request, so that broken links will not be an issue.

12/21/2003

• DHS posted the following outage report, explaining the downtime.

  "Services should all be back to normal. There was downtime since yesterday due to a fiber break upstream of our ISP and beyond our control." [http://www.dhs.org]

• The migration to apache 2.0 seems to be complete, I think everything is working as it should.  If you find something broken, please email me!  The link can be found to the left.

12/20/2003

• ripperd2.dhs.org has not been resolvable due to something at DHS International...

11/09/2003

• Just felt like saying hi.  Not doing much today, just a lazy Sunday, thought I'd just go through the site a little bit.  I went and got my snowmobile from storage, so hopefully we get some SNOW!

9/28/2003

• I have packet filtered a few users who were hammering my site.  PLEASE ONLY USE A SINGLE THREAD WHEN USING A DOWNLOAD MANAGER!  If you use more than that, you will suck bandwidth away from others, and I will be forced to deny you access.  So, if you suddenly can't access my site from your main machine, but can from somwhere else, you got blacklisted.  I have the server set for a total of 7-8 threads, so between 30KB/s, when all 7 are used, you still can get around 3-4KB/s per thread.  But when someone uses a download manager and tries to suck my site dry, you are abusing my service.  You WILL BE blacklisted, and I will most likely not remove the filter without alot of promises.

The following IP's are currently blacklisted:

• 81.101.88.30
• 219.160.201.56
• 217.229.175.134
• 140.105.161.101
• 62.31.144.2
• 24.43.80.122

9/18/2003

• Its getting about time to do some updating around this site, so I was thinking of doing a bit of work on it.  We'll see what I come up with, hopefully you'll see some good changes.  A bit of it will be on the server side too, to make the site better organized for me.

8/5/2003

• The Website was down most of the day, due to my provider.  Here was their news message:

[08/06/2003 14:23 AuEST] We are finally back up. Due to our upstream provider's router dying our ISP lost connectivity. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. Everything should now be back to normal. -Menger

7/21/2003

• Took pictures at a water-ski show.  Quick link.

6/17/2003

• Installed RAID system today.  Had a lot of driver problems though.  In order to free up a slot, I was going to go from a PCI VGA card to an AGP VGA card.  But, I was having lots of trouble (lockups) with the new AGP card.  That isn't good.  So I ended up yanking the PCI Ethernet out, and replacing it with the trusty ISA Ethernet card, so the server is back to 10mbit on the local side :-(.  Oh well, RAID mirroring is set-up, and went well.  After I get the video card situation stabilized, watch the uptimes get high!

6/9/2003

• I am working on a RAID-1 configuration for the server, so I don't have to do backups....So far, I've modded and flashed a promise Ultra100 card.  Instructions, and a front and rear pix are available.  I'll back it up tonight, and see if I can get it working tomorrow.

6/5/2003

• I am re-encoding most of the videos on this site, for higher quality.  I found out a couple things I did wrong when I first encoded them, so the ones that I know will be better will be re-done.  This will be most of them.  The files will also get slightly smaller as a side effect.  I'll post another news article once they are in place.  Ok, nm, they are updated now.  Went quicker than I thought!

6/1/2003

•  May Statistics:
  

  Total hits:	55,154
  Total page views:	12,814
  Total bytes transferred:	3,042.19 MB
  Average hits per day:	1779
  Average page views per day:	413
  Average bytes transferred per day:	98.14 MB

  • These stats are slightly skewed (ok, very skewed!) due to my mirror of alt.binaries.radio-control.  Approximately 20,000 of the hits are due to that, along with 6,000 page views, and 1,200 MB of the transfer...  Obviously my mirror is pretty popular :-)

5/24/2003

• Haha, look at this.  The scientist can't make up his mind!(google news)

5/21/2003

• Holy freaking hard-disk errors batman!  Woke up this morning to a BSOD on the server, and rebooted, only to have the server not recognize the hard disk.  I shut her down, and turned her back on, and got half-way into booting windows, and KA-CHUNK.  You know, the sound of a hard disk crashing?  Well, it was hectic, but about 14 hours later we have a working system again.  Looks like she stopped serving at 6:45 this morning, and she is now up at around 9:30 PM, so that is the most downtime in a long time for me.  UGH.  It would have been a lot quicker, but I worked from 9-4, so I couldn't work on the server then.  Anyway, hope I didn't cause too much trouble ;-)

5/7/2003

• I got bored with the previous colors.  I changed the entire color scheme of the site.  It definitely is different with the white background, but I'll feel it out.

5/4/2003  - April Statistics

Total hits:	81,208
Total page views:	16,152
Total bytes transferred:	2,968.00 MB
Average hits per day:	2,706
Average page views per day:	538
Average bytes transferred per day:	98.93 MB

• These stats are slightly skewed (ok, very skewed!) due to my mirror of alt.binaries.radio-control.  Approximately 40,000 of the hits are due to that, along with 11,000 page views, and 1,700 MB of the transfer...  Obviously my mirror is pretty popular :-)

4/30/2003

• Did some coding on ripcalc.exe, just a few minutes, and fixed the bugs that existed.  Now handles errors gracefully.

4/26/2003

• Havn't added anything in a while.  Decided to play with the car for a bit, and brought the video cam outside with me.  Click on video to the left for it!

2/16/2003

• Added a programs section, since I'm learning a little bit about coding, and making some simple programs.

2/1/2003

• I have a friend with a sled he wants to sell.  It's a deal!  If you live in the MPLS/ST Paul area, or are willing to come pick it up, there is info here!  it's a nice 99 ZR500.

12/23/2002

• About an hour downtime Sunday night/early Monday morning.  I replaced the 3.2GB hard drive in the server with a 10GB fireball...  It's quieter, bigger, and faster.  Hopefully will be more reliable (the western digital I haven't had a single problem with, but it was loud and slow!).  So, no space problems anymore.

12/3/2002

• Put in a forum, check it out!  I can answer questions, and take suggestions, or just general chit-chat, I don't care!

12/1/2002

• Updated the links page, to some places I visit often...  Check them out!

11/2/2002

• Decided to fix a lot of the broken links, and add some content.

10/31/2002

• Boo!  It's Halloween, and put up pictures of me visiting a friend in Iowa at college.  it's here.

6-21/2002

• Site went to / (root), so went live.  To visit the old site, hit the upper right link.

6/15/2002

• Re-did entire site, a easier to use, more intuitive format, hopefully I don't break anything in the process.  It hadn't been updated in a long time, so figured it was about time!

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