halcy.de v4 » Version four-point-oh and counting.Two weeks!

So I got me new hardware, and made a few new holes in my case to fix the HDD cages properly since the new motherboard is bigger, and now the server is finally up and running. Only thing left to do is clean up, which I’ll do tomorrow. Some pictures of the whole thing (Click on images for large version):

Drilling holes

Putting in the hardware, with a nice view of the battlefield

The result, with side-mounted hard drives.

So apparently, several things in my server broke.

First, the HDD. It’s now pretty much done for, but that did not worry me much since I had a spare HDD, had backups and was even able to get whole the system off the old HDD and transfer it to the new one, improving partitioning while I did, which amazingly worked perfect first try (Now there’s a seperate /home XFS partition).

But, something else doesn’t work anymore either. It’s one of or multiple of the graphics card (Which was broken before - some part of the circuitry for the S-Video out got literally fried), the CPU, or the motherboard.

Since I should do that anyways, I’ll use this opportunity to upgrade those parts to shiny new ones (And improve the working of my self-built HDD cage). Till then, here’s halcy.de, served by a temporary PC into which I just plugged its HDD.

The system will be down again as soon as I get the new stuff to switch over, but should be very stable after that.

I’ve had time to clean up my folders a little, and I guess it’s time to publish some code I have not previously mentioned on here.

First up, we have rot13ajax.pl, which is the worst piece of AJAX abuse I could come up with. A little quote from the script:

Dynamically loading javascript which dynamically loads rot13’d javascript, which is decoded and then dynamically loads rot13’d html, decodes it and inserts it into the document FTW.

So there. You can see it in action and view the source here: Rot13AJAX.

Second, the unicodeificator, basically a web version of debians “uniencode” script. Ιt аⅼⅼоwѕ уօυ tо ‟υɳⅰсօԁеⅰfу‟ tеⅹt, ⅼіkе tҺіѕ ѕеɳtеɳсе. Source and usable script for downloading.

Third, an a bit hackish backup script, for backing up web sites. It’s here for sake of completeness, altough I would not really recommend using it much.

Number four, a script for getting a list of all the IP adresses of the proxies on samair.ru, which is useful for creating lists for mass-banning.

Finally, there is the Super Amazing Wikifier, which is a script to convert saved html pages, specifically those of from site called wikichan, to wiki syntax. It’s useful if your wiki site just accidentally got deleted and you are trying to recreate it from google cache and web.archive.org ;). The Super Amazing Wikifiers source is here, note that you might have to install some perl modules from CPAN to make it work.