2006-11-26
Posted in Geek Stuff
at 10:53
dnsmasq site
So, you’ve got that old dust-covered computer set up with a UNIX clone, got it to work as a router, figured out the syntax for the packet filter (firewall), and maybe even got a DHCP server working. What next?
How about a DNS setup that works perfectly with any version of Windows (not Multicast DNS), doesn’t take a paid sysadmin to set up and maintain, and works as both a forwarding proxy and a local DNS server?
For those who don’t get out much, I’m talking about dnsmasq. Since the page is a little verbose, I’ll highlight the (apparently) unique things it does:
This is a preview of
dnsmasq - DNS and DHCP for the rest of us
.
Read the full post (298 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)
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2006-11-12
Posted in Manga
at 3:35
Don’t be fooled by the title. This romantic comedy is no shallow hormone fest but, because I made that mistake, it took me over a year to get around to reading it. Sure, it’s a shonen manga with a lot of fanservice, but the characters and events are quite good.
Among other things, I find it very rare to see a female character who is as realistically assertive as Nobuko Nizaki. (as opposed to comically assertive like the girls in Ranma 1/2 and the Tenchi Muyo OAVs) It also helps that the manga’s namesake, Ai the Video Girl is “defective”. As one review described her, trash-talking, assertive, and determined to help the main character find love even if she has to drag him all the way.
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2006-11-09
Posted in Fanfiction
at 23:34
How about some excellent Ranma short stories about the loss of something vital?
First, Elegy to a Golden Youth by Reid Carson. As the author explains it,
I was re-reading Dunsany’s The King of Elfand’s Daughter one day, and was struck anew by the image of Lirazel walking toward the meeting with her son, bringing the boundaries of Elfland with her. It occurred to me that Ranma’s arrival in Nerima had a similar impact on the lives of the people there, carrying them into another world, and, even more, revealing that the world they had lived in was not the hum-drum place they had taken it for. What would happen
then, when Ranma left?
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2006-11-07
Posted in Web Wandering & Opinion
at 23:46
‘39 by Queen at Last.fm
I just ran across one of the most amazing (and ironically, least known) Queen songs I’ve ever heard. Last I checked, it was a free MP3 download from it’s Last.fm page, so give it a listen.
To save you time, here’s an explanation of what the lyrics mean: Simply put, it’s about space travel and time dilation. More specifically, it’s about a bunch of volunteers who leave earth behind at speeds near the speed of light in search of a new place to colonize and, after being gone a year (from their perspective), return at least a hundred years later (left “in the year of ‘39″, gone a year, returned “in the year of ‘39″) to bring the happy news to a bittersweet meeting with their descendants. Hence the lines
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