SAO figs more epic than the anime itself?
Anime
To say Sword Art Online was disliked by esteemed members of [our anime club](http://utsanime.net/) would be the understatement of the millennium. Or to put it another way… Y U LIKE THAT!?!?!?!?!
I’ll be honest, I didn’t find it terrible, though they didn’t do much with the otherwise awesome early premise they’d developed. And I liked the character designs. What can I say, I’m a sucker for art!
Clara and I [saw this fig of Asuna yesterday on the train, and I have to say I’m a fan. The flowing white of her dress, the amount of detail in her hair… it’s amazing what figure artists and manufactures are able to produce these days.
About the only thing boring about this fig is her base, though clear “not there” plastic is still better than the plain black bases of yore. I almost wrote “hitam” bases, but wrong language.
The only networking guy around here
Internet
This is the third in my *fabulous* networking meme series, generated here. The first one was here, and the second one was here. You’re welcome. You’re welcome.
I’m not sure what it is about this one that makes my sides split… he just seems so… furious!
Go home, site value estimators
Internet
It’s always fun to check into these sites now and then, to see the metrics they’ve allegedly collected about my site. Most of it is contradictory, inaccurate and/or wildly outdated nonsense!
I couldn’t even stand to link to them with rel=”nofollow”, feel free to visit them via copy and paste. But you really shouldn’t.
- urlm.co/www.rubenerd.com
- Rank in United States 567,077
Worldwide Rank 1,052,449
Monthly pages viewed 34,020
Monthly visits 9,863
Value per visitor $0.16
Estimated worth $7,920.99
External links 237 - www.freewebsitereport.org/www.rubenerd.com
- Rubenerd.com has ranked #1,477,161 in the world according to Alexa website ranking. Rubenerd.com has Google pagerank #4. The estimated website net worth based on it’s traffic value and online website advertisement revenue alone is around $1,631. Rubenerd.com receives 745 pageviews per day and generates nearly $2.23 in daily ad revenue.
- rubenerd.com.pandastats.net/
- Rubenerd.com is the 982494:th largest website within the world. [..] Rubenerd.com Google Pagerank is 4 and it’s domain is Commercial. Rubenerd.com estimated worth is $4,065.71, with 1018 estimated visites per day and ad revenue of $3.05.
- www.markosweb.com/www/rubenerd.com/
- Defining the site’s cost isn’t a simple task. We comprehensively evaluate site SEO, website traffic (quantity, source, geography) and make approximate conclusions about the website’s cost. Special attention is paid not only to the current site’s cost but to the growth (or decline) dynamic of the resource. Rubenerd.com net worth: $90.4K.
- rubenerd.com/go-home-site-value-estimators/
- Whatever you guys are on, that stuff is powerful.
On the open nature of Cisco’s EIGRP
Internet
It started like any other day in my CCNA course. We sat down, were presented with some Cisco slides, and our lecturer started discussing the concepts we’d be exploring in the following lab. I’m a fan of this format; for IT courses there’s really no point having us sit in a two hour lecture, then have us go home without actually doing anything with it. But I digress.
When we got to the slide introducing EIGRP, it mentioned the proprietary nature of the protocol. With enthusiasm though, our lecturer overlayed a bubble over the slide, proudly announcing this was no longer true!
Sure enough, on the Cisco website, EIGRP has been submitted as a draft informational RFC:
Cisco is opening up its EIGRP routing protocol as an open standard in order to help companies operate in a multi-vendor environment. Customers should be able to pick the best protocol that works for them, based on technical merits. Any networking vendor can now freely implement EIGRP on their equipment, and interoperate with thousands of networks running EIGRP today.
“Based on technical merits” are strong words. Clearly Cisco believes other protocols were being adopted because EIGRP wasn’t open, not because of any technical superiority. A shot across the bow at the likes of OSPF!
For some reason though, I couldn’t shake the feeling there must be a catch. It didn’t seem right to suddnly compare EIGRP to open, standard protocols like OSPF, based on a draft proposal.
Sure enough, in the second paragraph:
Cisco is releasing the basic EIGRP to the IETF as an Informational RFC. This includes all the information needed to implement EIGRP, and its associated features, including High Availability (HA).
The key word being “basic”. I’m not a networking engineer, but this reads to me like if you want more of the advanced features of EIGRP, you’ll still need Cisco gear.
And then we have this:
EIGRP is being released as an “Informational RFC”, and that allows Cisco to retain control of the EIGRP protocol in order to preserve the customer experience and deployment investments. The EIGRP protocol will not be changed.
If I were a third party network hardware manufacturer looking to implement EIGRP, some key phrases there would give me pause.
So, not to go against my CCNA teacher, Cisco should be applauded for making steps in the right direction, but at best EIGRP could be considered a “partly-open” at this stage.
Art of Tsugumi modifying what could be a routing table, by okitakung on Pixiv.
One does not simply network meme
Internet
This is the second in my lame networking meme series, generated here. The first one was here. You’re welcome.
Dealing with UTF8 in Perl
Software
If you have Perl warnings enabled (like a good developer), chances are you’ve seen something like this when executing your script:
Wide character in print at ./[file].pl line [x].
As with everything in Perl, there are Many Ways™ to deal with this.
The first is to include the following line along with your regular Perl boilerplate. I always write my scripts and text files in UTF8, so this merely enforces UTF8 output.
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
This will deal with those warnings, and let you get on with your work.
An alternative is to enforce UTF8 for STDIN and STDERR, as well as STDOUT with this line.
use open qw/:std :utf8/;
And of course, there’s always a trusty environment variable.
export PERL_UNICODE=SDL
I don’t always make lame networking memes
Hardware
Doing group work for our Routing and Internetworks class yesterday, all these terrible network memes started appearing in my head. Initially, I included them in our group report, but for the sake of our marks I’ll be putting them here instead.
This is the first one, generated here. You’re welcome.
Congratulations @hanezawakirika and @uberlutzer!
Thoughts
Sending huge congratulatory electronic hugs to Clara and a brohug to Robbie for graduating yesterday. There are so many clichés about all their hard work, the exciting opportunities that face them and so on, but they’ve no doubt heard that from everyone by now. Still ^_^.
Clara will be hanging around to do her masters, and I hope Robbie will drop in from time to time as well :).
Pictured above in all their finery, I can tell those colours will suit them much better than they will on me! About the only thing lacking was my cameratic skills. Is cameratic a word?
Install jekyll-import with –pre for now
Software
Updating to the latest version of Jekyll, I got the following error when attempting to migrate a WXR file:
You must install the 'jekyll-import' gem before continuing. * Do this by running `gem install jekyll-import`. * Or if you need root privileges, run `sudo gem install jekyll-import`.
Sure enough, along with an entirely new site, Jekyll now uses importers instead of migrators, which reside in their own gem. Unfortunately, attempting to install this resulted in a new error.
ready % gem install jekyll-import ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'jekyll-import' (>= 0) in any repository ERROR: Possible alternatives: jekyll-ebook, jekyll-epub, jekyll-reposter, module-import
It turns out that jekyll-import is still technically in beta, so needs to be installed thusly:
ready % gem install jekyll-import --pre
At the time of writing, this works in my bog standard RubyGems environment on Mac OS X 10.8.3, with the following dependencies and docs installed:
Fetching: fastercsv-1.5.5.gem (100%) Fetching: nokogiri-1.5.9.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while… Fetching: jekyll-import-0.1.0.beta1.gem (100%) Successfully installed fastercsv-1.5.5 Successfully installed nokogiri-1.5.9 Successfully installed jekyll-import-0.1.0.beta1 3 gems installed Installing ri documentation for fastercsv-1.5.5… Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.5.9… Installing ri documentation for jekyll-import-0.1.0.beta1… Installing RDoc documentation for fastercsv-1.5.5… Installing RDoc documentation for nokogiri-1.5.9… Installing RDoc documentation for jekyll-import-0.1.0.beta1…