The skill that brings sanity to rogue’s cloning abilities. Finally hitting job36 means eternal freedom of hunting location, without worrying about my cloned skill being overwritten.

A few screenshots;

Tomorrow will be a quiet day, with no power until 3pm (thanks a lot western power). TT

Having spent many hours levelling at otters (with a lot of 1hit deaths and pain from lack of flee) I decided to go clone bowling bash level7 just for a bit of fun. I tried argiopes first, and the proved awesome success – 3-hit kills are always welcome.

So rogue has surprise attack, lets make a little comparison between the two (keeping in mind i only have lv7 at the moment)

Bowling Bash 7 – SP19, 1600dmg per hit to argiope, slight difficulty in targetting.
Surprise Attack 5 – SP30, 650dmg per hit to argiope, near impossible to use when mobbed.

I’ll let you decide which is better

We also went to eat chinese today in perth (wow that’s rare). Quite tasty!

With Jetha’s music collection and Alan’s now well organised anime dvd collection, I was able to recover most of the good anime series that should remain on psrv. Now all that’s left is the japan folder, which means gen has to lan.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 423G 159G 264G 38% /ftp

I must say, cd/dvd storage has really improved. It almost makes me want to get a dvd drive ^^;

I’ve been running some benchmarks on my raid and it doesn’t seem to be performing to its usual standard. It doesn’t seem to be the file system (XFS as usual) but rather the IDE controller being the bottleneck. Not sure if this is just a driver/kernel problem, but it definitely needs to be checked out. Especially when moving psrv to gigabit :O. Throughput seems limited to around 50-70mb/s, but this is the same with a non-raided drive as well. Will look into it further over the weekend.

In other news, my join effort with Alan to complete Zelda Windwaker finally came to a conclusion as we beat gannon… until alan overwrote our complete savegame with the second quest one (basically play through a second time with small differences). So we started to play again, from the beginning. Just climbing the deku tree at the moment! Such an awesome game.

After over 8 months of no apt-getting (thanks to a broken java package), it was time to do a full dist-upgrade run. As you may have guessed, this didn’t go so well. What followed was a large number of segfaults and lib errors, which was not fixed after upgrading to a 2.6 kernel.

During the last few days, with the help of p00ya I tried various things to get it working, to no avail. A format was needed. I suck at backing up, thus the now empty blog ^-^.

I also tried to rebuild the /ftp/ raid late at night and failed. xfs_repair continued to tear the data’s inodes to pieces, resulting in about 40k files names with 12 character numerical garbage. Formatting the raid will take place in the days to come, hopefully followed by a lan to recover whatever it is that we decide to stick on there this time around.

A fresh start is always a good thing once in a while – the last psrv format was so long ago I can’t even remember.. (the kernel was 2 years old, and I found older kernels in /boot/). One thing I have come to learn is that have the programs I was using to config stuff have become deprecated, so I’m basically chucking away any configs that don’t need to be salvaged and starting fresh.

If you want a user account again on psrv, contact me. If you need any software / libs installed, get an account first and I’ll hax it up.

FTP, samba, pop3, smtp, www and ircd to some extent are up and running. /home is intact. /var/www is fine too.

All looking OK.