So for fun today I thought I would phone Telus and have them fix my reverse DNS. I host my own DNS but for some reason Telus prefers to host the reverse DNS (fair enough). They have this little web tool for updating said reverse DNS. But it doesn’t work anymore. So after only about ...

Nice morning project. Today I setup my PI phone number search engine. It’s a rather fast way of finding the first occurence of any seven digit sequence in PI. Unlike my previous PI search engine that search for arbitrary strings in PI, this one is really fast.

Just found a very interesting project called cx_Freeze. It’s basically like py2exe and installer in that it bundles a python program into a standalone executable with the related shared libraries so that it can run on a machine without Python. This one, however, seems to work for a wide variety of target platforms including Windows, ...

Cool! In my quest for more digits of Pi I found a Univeristy in Japan offering 4.2 billion digits to download for the general public. They are on their way down to my server. Once there I plan to revive my Pi search engine and allow it to search 4.2 billion digits! I think I’ll ...

I switched back to DBJDNS from MaraDNS. The first reason is I know Dan Bernstein writes good solid and very secure code. The other reason is it is just easier to use. DJBDNS’s config files do not resemble zone files (which MaraDNS’s do) and that makes me very happy. Hopefully I managed to do this ...