This site now enforces use of HTTPS instead of HTTP. Sure has been a long time Since I've posted here!
Main page updated for the first time. Now it doesn't look as terrible as before!
The old 16 year old PC running this site is due for replacement tomorrow. It has served well, but will be replaced by a newer, faster, smaller system. A raspberry pi 3. This thing is smaller than a Genesis cartridge, yet roughly 8 times as powerful as the old server. Technology sure moves quickly! Back under my bed with the old server PC!
Who had the bright idea of making the commad to edit a crontab one letter away from the one to erase one? They're one key apart too! (e and r)
It took way longer than usual to log in to my server through SSH. I eventually ran the top command to see my CPU slammed with a shitload of gzip processes. The result of a bad cron job. Oops! It's fixed now though!
Added a mirror of some Genesis/SCD/32X technical documentation.
Server now connected to a UPS. Come at me, power outages!
On this day, I replaced the 50ft cat5 cable linking my server to my router with a more manageable 6ft cable. I'm sure that nobody noticed as mode5.net went down for a minute. Also, this message brought to you via SSH and the VI text editor.
Added a console mods section on the site.
I've configured Cron to do regular system backups. That's probably a good thing to be doing, since the hard drives were made in 1999, and could die any day now.
Removed the view counter on account of it being bullshit. I found out that it was occasionally adding pop-ups to the main page. Bye-bye counter!
Follow-up: I jynxed it. My power went out again for a little while.
Follow-up 2: My power ironically went off again while while I was complaining about the the previous outage. I think it's time to invest in a UPS.
I added a site content catagory and moved a few things into it from the misc catagory. I also added two reviews. One for The Ooze, and one for Hard Drivin. I also put all of the tutorial and review stuff into seperate sub-folders.
Added some programming tutorials. Server seems to be running steady. Mode5.net is correctly pointing to my home internet, my home internet is correctly pointing to my server, and my server is up and running.
Server recieves massive downgrade in the form of migrating everything from main PC, to PC I keep under my bed. Had: 4.2GHZ 8 core AMD FX-8320, 256GB SSD, 8GB DDR3-1600. Now have: 566MHZ Celeron, X2 PATA drives (22gb total), 320MB RAM (unknown type). At least I can run this dinosaur 24/7, and just let it do it's thing. The server is now in it's perminant location.
Worked for days trying to figure out why I couldn't connect from the outside. Turns out, I screwed up one little thing with my port forwarding settings...
Site construction begins. No domain name as of yet.
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