Author Archives: independence

Misc stuff

The translation work on the wiki has been going pretty well. The frontpage is now available in English, Swedish, German, French and Serbian. Thanks for helping out everyone! We could ofcourse do with even more translations 😉 Secondly, I bought … Continue reading

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Webpage/Wiki

I’ve been working a bit on the website the last couple of days, trying to optimize the response times and changing some out of date information and so on. I do need some help traslating the page into different languages … Continue reading

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CPU fan broke down

This morning at about 05.00AM the CPU fan in the server broke down, causing the system to shut down. Fortunately, I was visiting my parents this weekend (where the server is at), so I managed to fix it and boot … Continue reading

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Backups!

Blinkenshell now makes daily backups of your files that you store on the server, for more information please read: Info/Backup on the wiki. There are some exceptions of files that won’t get backed up, like temp files (tmp/ in your … Continue reading

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Two new commands

Today I built a little script to configure some basic settings of the shell that you probably need to change. From now on, all new members will get to run this script the first time they log in, and everyone … Continue reading

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Weechat

I’ve installed a new text-based IRC client called weechat (version 0.2.6) on Blinkenshell. It’s a bit similar to irssi from what I’ve heard, but supports a couple of cool new features such as horizontal split of windows (which allows for … Continue reading

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New IRC server

Blinkenshell now has it’s own IRC server linked to our home IRC network Allshells. This server is on the same network as the shell server, so it’s much closer than to use overload’s server in the US. If you are … Continue reading

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irssi 0.8.12

irssi is now upgraded from 0.8.12-rc1 to 0.8.12, you can read the full changelog here. I didn’t notice any real new features in this version, it seems to be most bug fixes. If you want to upgrade to the new … Continue reading

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Gmail, SPF

For a long time activation emails sent to Gmails users have been marked as spam. I thought it was because there is a link in it, and before I was using the word “congratulations” which is probably not very popular … Continue reading

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