Some N64 action

Posted on 5/29/2005 by Kyle

(and no, I’m not sure why I look pissed off)

So, today was an absolutely gorgeous day, 65 degrees Fahrenheit (or for those among you who are sane, ~18 Celsius) with hardly a cloud in the sky. I felt like being outside, so Kevin, Peter (not pictured) and I grabbed some chairs, a TV and the N64 for a little Super Smash Brothers action.

We ended up moving to a different part of the yard after Peter left us, so that the guy who was mowing the grass could get to our spot.

Afterwards, we headed down to Chutes and Ladders and BBQed some dinner.

And for the rest of the night… we’ve got a projector and plenty to watch.

Yay for lazy summer days in Houghton, MI.

MTU’s Campus in the Spring

Posted on 5/28/2005 by Kyle

So today, in order to prove that green things do grow in Houghton, went on a picture taking tour of part of campus. I was getting hungry, so I didn’t make it everywhere.

If you want to check out more pictures, check them out at: this page.

Alternatively, you can look at them on my flickr page or my gallery.

This is going to be a long weekend, and since I have little to do, and less money to do it on, I’ll probably be going to a few other places in the area on excursions, and I’ll be bringing my camera along for the ride.

Gallery2

Posted on 5/22/2005 by Kyle

This morning (since it is after midnight) I updated my Gallery install from version 1.5 to version 2 Beta 3.

The Gallery project moved to a database driven system and the administration console is a lot more accessible and easier to configure and mantain. It seems more resonsive and has a plethora of new features.

EXIF data is displayed with images, it has a crisper look and the layouts are easier to manage.

Go ahead, take a look at the new gallery.

Episode 3

Posted on 5/20/2005 by Kyle

Well, I just got back from watching Episode 3, and in my opinioin, Lucas managed to redeem himself for Ep. 2. I don’t think there’s anything he can ever do to make up for the travesty that was Episode 1.

I’d recommend you go see it, and when you’re saying “WTF!” about the physics in the opening space battle, remember: there’s a planet nearby.

Webserver Success!

Posted on 5/15/2005 by Kyle

Looks like the entirety of my website is back up! Yay!

When I moved into the new house, we had to work on a way to get my webserver accessible to the outside world, because I’m not the only person in the house with one. To that end, one of my housemates set up mod_proxy on his webserver, to forward any requests for my domain to my machine.

However, all the requests that were made ended up at my front page, and because of the way my site was laid out, that didn’t work very well (read: not at all). So, last night, I was reading through the Apache2 documentation trying to figure out what was going on, and I ran across this page, detailing mod_proxy after reading through it, I noticed the following option:

ProxyPreserveHost Off

It does what it appears to, it preserves the host name of the site you’re trying to visit when Apache does it’s proxy mojo. His door wasn’t open so I sent him an email about it, and went to bed. I wake up this morning and he’d already made the change on his router: Success!

Too bad it took me a week to read the Apache docs for mod_proxy.