The best RSS reader I've used so far is newsfire on the mac.

Just last night we tried xtorrent, a bittorrent program written by the same guy. It is definitely up to the standard of newsfire, great interface and the search works too!

Xtorrent 1.1 was just released so it might be a good time to buy.

I purchased a new desktop computer the other day (first one since 2003). Unfortunately the video card has not come yet, so my vista "experience" score is interesting :)

The computer is an Intel 2.4GHz Quad Core with 4gb Ram and a 8800GTS (currently an X300se, heh).

Finally got a new server running. So I'm in the process of moving the websites over it to.

It should be faster too (it is an Athlon 64 3000+).

The internet was connected today. So I've got the web server temporality going. I'm going to replace it with something else as it is too noise and doesn't work correctly.

phpbb 3 RC1 is finally out!

I upgraded my old forums to have a play, I like it.

The Web Server is having issues *again*.

This time it looks like one of the CPUs isn't working. So it's going to be running with a single cpu until I get around to fixing it :|

EDIT: Still having issues. Might be a power supply issue, but we don't have another one to test with.

Sorry about the downtime. There are some issues with Apache that are causing the server to lockup; I haven't had time to look into it yet.



The reason I didn't get to it quicker was that I had been at Heron Island for the week (which was awesome).

The web server has been doing some odd things.

Yesterday I needed to restart apache as it had used up all of the swap space (2.5gb), which was causing mysql to fail.

This morning I checked the load and found this



I should probably look into it :)

I took these screen shots a while ago, but I thought they may be useful.



Note: If you want to setup the netscreen side follow this howto (ignoring the last section about setting up Netscreen Remote).

This setup is only using DES/MD5 and not 3DES/SHA-1 with a 10.0.0.0/22 remote network. Your setup may be different to this.