Category Archives: technical

massive filing up

Posted on by October 31, 2012
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You might perhaps have noticed that during the past weeks the overall number of entries here at xirdalium has substantially increased. Including this one, there now are 1058 posts all in all. This is due to my finally having imported all the content from my first blog, ye ole xirdalium, which is no longer in existence. You can access all this content via the pages menu at the very bottom of the page, via the monthly archives at the bottom of the sidebar to the right, or, best of all, via the search field, also in the sidebar. Every single … Continue reading →

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xirdalium redux

Posted on by December 14, 2010
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Finally I brought myself to get a proper domain and to resurrect my blog ‘xirdalium.’ Not that it was dead and gone, but definitely in an undead state. The reasons for that were manifold. The first category of reasons are technical problems with the server the original instance of ‘xirdalium’ called its home. Since several weeks more often than not you got an ‘internal server error’ message when navigating there. Reason enough to quit the server. Another technical problem was, that somehow I lost the battle against comment spam too often, finally gave up, and permanently disabled the comments by … Continue reading →

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comments are not yet back

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Well, quite some time has passed since I ↵took the comments function offline—due to numerous requests I brought the function back online again, and included some more wizardry from ↑abe. Let’s see how it works. All the comments you posted before are available again, too.  UPDATE: That was a bit premature, as the comments only seem to be half back. The old ones are there, but new ones are not accepted. Am trying to fix that.  UPDATE 2: Wtf?—lol! Interesting effect: I can’t post comments into my own blog, but spambots can. Atm I have no idea what is going … Continue reading →

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television

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Frankly, I do not really know the reasons. But since four months the visits on my weblog here are steadily increasing. The average number of unique visitors for this month today is 2300 (bots and access with special http-status [me] not counted). Plus, people more and more are downloading ↵my Q3A-config. I would understand downloading the configs of Thresh, fatal1ty, cooller, and the like—but the config of a miserable player like me? Maybe the increase of popularity has to do with the airing of the short 6min feature about “↑Second Life“ (SL) I took part in on 29 March 2007? … Continue reading →

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comments offline

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Once again I was forced to take the comments function offline. My countermeasures against spamming were still working and indeed prevented ‘sensible’ spam—spam that actually does advertise something or builds up a web of hyperlinks. Sometimes the filter overdid it and prevented real comments from being posted. That never was the filter’s fault, but mine, as I do the calibration. Anyway, during the last weeks again spam hit my blog, spam of strange proveniences. Some species seem to be mere tests, others I just can’t make neither heads nor tails of. For sure somewhere on the Internet information about this … Continue reading →

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bibliography update

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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The reason for the literature spree of the recent days is my planning of the two courses ↵on computergames and online-communities I will teach during the upcoming term. In the wake of that I updated, ‘enhanced’, and reformatted my ↵online bibliography. Now it’s laid out more clearly, I guess. Prey on it—that’s why it is online. … Continue reading →

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Posted on by October 5, 2012
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The last weekend was dedicated to dealing with rubbish. The flood in Munich—have a look at the ↑photos by 2R—had powerfully hit our basement, too. But till Friday the hip-high waters had been pumped off. So, on Saturday morning I did a review of our cellared items and decided to throw nearly everything away. Shortly after noon it was done. A friend dropped by and took me along to ↑Heavens Gate, a phantastically relaxed indoor-climbing facility. When the first wave of exhaustion came we took a break, withdrew to the sofa-corner, and had a coffee. Right next to us I … Continue reading →

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