Felipe Martín

A few days ago, I bought Warcraft III. I never finished it before, since I didn’t own the game, and lately I had this inner urge to play a game on the Warcraft series. Since going back to World of Warcraft isn’t an option, I decided to rollback to the part of the Warcraft lore that is unknown to me. Sadly after buying the game I discovered that they dropped support for the game when Apple did the conversion of their hardware from powerpc to intel.

Not so long ago I’ve been gifted with a Yubikey. It’s a two-auth hardware solution with multiple auth methods (OTP, Challenge-response, OATH-HOTP and static password). It easily scaled to one of my favourite and most useful gadgets. I’ve been a google authenticator user for a while, but the yubikey is just much easier to work with: when configured, you only need to tap a button on the usb stick to generate your key.

For those who don’t know, I started a site a while ago minecraft related (yes, [the one I dropped](/blog/2013/1/12/weekly-project-status-dropping-projects- hard/)). If you don’t know what minecraft is (really?!), you can check the official site, since this game can be a little difficult to explain. The project (which is online at minecraftcodex.com) is just a database of items, blocks, entities, etc. related to the game, but as in any other site of this kind, entering all this information can lead to an absolute boredom.

After finishing zombiepress a friend of mine wanted to use it but asked for some kind of conversion to static since he uploads its current blog to github. That’s how this project was born. Django as a static site? Of course, it’s possible, only if your project it’s using a simple backend infrastructure, it doesn’t let users modify the database, and also doesn’t have contact forms or that kind of stuff.

It finally happened. I got tired of octopress and decided to finish what I started: my own blogging CMS. It’s a really modest thing built with django. I’ve added some thing to make it easy to use (in my oppinion): settings.py main preferences (required for running the app) are set on environment variables instead of environment dependant settings files or the not so cool local_settings.py. A a key->value preferences config in the admin (a simple django model with 3 fields) for settings that may be needed to modify in a live environment and would be a shame if it were on the settings.

Summary Haiba Sumio is a student at a Tokyo High School with an interesting ability… He occasionally falls asleep and wakes up with premonitions of the future written out on his “Dream Diary”. With this ability, Sumio helps out people in trouble before anything bad happens, until one day when his peaceful life completely changes. Volumes: 7 Chapters: 56 (finished) Genre: Adventure, Mystery, School, Shounen, Supernatural Story/Art: Sakaki, Kenji

Recently I’ve started the migration of my company’s servers to a new provider. After checking that the OS installed on the -now- old servers was Ubuntu 8.04 (holy shit), I decided to make a fresh install of CentOS 6.3, cleaning up all the servers contents and setting up everything from scratch. After setting my iptables rules (INPUT whitelisted, OUTPUT accept all) I noticed a big delay on every connection made to my server.