The Time-Consuming Blog..

With just a few days left until Christmas vacation kicks in, I felt like I had no more excuses to not-post here anymore. Regardless of the fact that I have a FaceBook account, a Hyves.nl account, a mixi.jp account and even a Twitter account – sometimes I still can’t help but feel that I have not been dedicating enough time on the Internet, that being on a few of my own domains.

Naturally, my utmost valid and absolutely legal excuse would be my son sucking up my not-so-precious time at the moment. As fathership is still new for me, I’m still finding myself sometimes struggling to find that “perfect balance” in it, which hopefully would allow me one day to entertain Jesse while cooking dinner, posting a blog (yes, yes!) and going through my e-mails while at it. I don’t suspect this to happen the next 12 years.

Despite all that – I am aiming for making at least one more post at a bare minimum, writing out this year at a glance, the ups and downs and all that comes with it. Let’s hope I can achieve this goal

Luckily, some very cool guys at Geekshells.org saved my life here: they offer (free) SSH access to their system on which I can happily run a screen-session, in which I can keep my irssi session alive again, not having to worry about needing to reconnect on a daily base. So, I requested the account yesterday, but as it’s activated and accepted manually (to prevent scriptkiddies and such) I’ll just have to wait a bit longer to get access towards it. Cool thing about the guys is that you can donate a small amount of money or hardware, and get IPv4 access (rather than only IPv6 access) and a little more storage space.. Can’t say that aint worth it

Fuck that, Jostein gets the credits for providing me with SSH accesss.

Thanks dude!

Today I started paying some interest into C++, mainly because I am trying to get to know about OOP (object-oriented programming) a bit..
Anyway, here’s my first piece of cute code, what it basically does is converting Celcius to Fahrenheit, so it’s pretty simple.

#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(int nNumberofArgs, char* pszArgs[])
{
  int celsius;
  cout << "Enter the temperature in Celsius:";
  cin >> celsius;
  // calculate conversion factor for Celsius to Fahrenheit
  int factor;
  factor = 212 - 32;
  // use conversion factor to convert Celsius into Fahrenheit values
  int fahrenheit;
  fahrenheit = factor * celsius/100 + 32;
  // output the results (followed by a NewLine)
  cout << "Fahrenheit value is:";
  cout << fahrenheit << endl;
  // wait until user is ready before terminating program
  // to allow the user to see the program results
  system("PAUSE");
  return 0;
}

Forgive the lack of proper formatting, but apparently WP doesn’t seem to keep it alive when copy/pasting..

With the coming of my new webhost over at GoDaddy, the unfortunate issue arose that I wouldn’t be able to keep an IRC-session open anymore, as my own server was being decommissioned soon. Me being a IRC-junkie by nature, that would’ve been a slight potential problem.

Luckily, some very cool guys at Geekshells.org saved my life here: they offer (free) SSH access to their system on which I can happily run a screen-session, in which I can keep my irssi session alive again, not having to worry about needing to reconnect on a daily base. So, I requested the account yesterday, but as it’s activated and accepted manually (to prevent scriptkiddies and such) I’ll just have to wait a bit longer to get access towards it.

Cool thing about the guys is that you can donate a small amount of money or hardware, and get IPv4 access (rather than only IPv6 access) and a little more storage space.. Can’t say that aint worth it

Okay, so I could have come up with loads of other titles, better ones, funny ones, or even play a prank on the fact that I recently became a ‘daddy’ myself, and now went ‘go’ using GoDaddy, but that’d would merely be provoking for people to not take this site serious anymore (dont get me wrong, not like I suspect that people do so, but still).

So what happened? Just yesterday, me and Wouter decided to host our websites with GoDaddy. Reason for this is that the current server (my legendary Hikari server) is getting more and more hardware failures resulting in power failures. Naturally, on top of that, there’s also the flexibility of not being responsible for managing the hardware, or even paying the electricitybill! And hence it was decided: we signed up for a three year Linux Hosting-plan at GoDaddy, giving us a pretty nice list of features, and about 1,5TB of bandwidthlimit on a monthly base. Seeing as I only have 2 or 3 people reading my blog, I wouldn’t suspect that to be a problem:)

So, from here on, my websites (Crash-O.com and Zengoku.com) will be hosted at GoDaddy, and I’ll be using their available software also for doing some blogging and what not (hell, I even have a wiki now!)