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I did not need to wake up to this... - 26/05/2001 - 14:20 GMT - [Link]

I did not need to wake up to this...
I was woken about a half an hour ago by an SMS from Jim, telling me that CSD is shutting down for good. And that is REALLY FUCKING SHIT.


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Bags and baggage - 26/05/2001 - 17:48 GMT - [Link]

Bags and baggage
Well, LeSinge.org will arrive back at my old matrix account in 24-ish hours. I know that, in the great scheme of things, losing a shell account and having to move your e-mail/website is somewhere below, say, breaking a nail, but it's the manner in which it happened that really fucks me off.

A bunch of scumbags took it upon themselves to orchestrate a DDoS on an inconsequential little server for absolutely no good reason, and now one guy's pride and joy, into which he and many others poured hours of work in their spare time has to come down. Free shell accounts with all the mod cons, not to mention free DNS hosting on a machine on a major ISP's backbone do not come around every day.

I'm really sorry for Colin but at least thankful for his giving me an account some 2 years ago. I've learned an awful lot of UNIXey, webby stuff, first on the NetBSD SPARC and then the FreeBSD i386. The advantage of having a backbone connection became really clear to me when I went abroad and realised just how fast dialling in was compared to my TCD accounts. It was brilliant while it lasted (not to mention damn near irreplaceable).

Thanks for everything. Shit that it had to end this way.


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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!

I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.

"The Monkey"? Eh?

My nom de guerre comes from an old Eddie Izzard comedy sketch.

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* I've been around: csd.dot-ie.com, matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie, ns1.ayntk.net, ns4.nestdesign.com, cotopaxi.33eels.com, chimborazo.33eels.com

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