Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - November 2006
A hard man is good to beat
We're still in the grip of the drought, according to the water companies. If it were up to them, we'd be queueing for water from trucks while getting drenched in the pouring rain. Someone should tell the weather about the drought,
Galleries added this month.
Stories added this month.
Nothing new
Movies added this month.
Nothing new.
One of my oldest servers gave up the ghost. I've been using it for storing large video files. It was a Pentium 75, a huge tower full of the huge 47gb drives that I bought for my first Usenet system, which held a terabyte, but needed an entire 19 inch cabinet to hold it. I could maybe fix it, but is it really worth bothering? So I replaced it with a small computer with a couple of 200gb drives, Celeron 4, 3ghz, which does a much better job.
One of my three servers for backing up the main network server, went bad. It turned out to be one of the drives. So I replaced the drive, and reloaded with version six of Fedora (just out). Then I noticed that the power supply was very quiet - it turned out, the fan had seized up. So I replaced the fan, and then the power supply didn't work at all. So, I replaced the whole power supply.
The comments on the spams are mine, of course. These are actual spams sent to me, which just strike me as funny. I don't include their contact details - go find your own spammers!
By the way, if you're using StoneColdMail (which is free to web site members) then you won't see most of these spams, they'll be delivered into your "Spam" folder.
I now get about 1000 spams per day. My despammer works quite well, only a
couple of dozen get through, and it's very rare that a real email gets into
my spam folder. But I've divided the spam folder into two, one spammier than
the other. The spammier folder, is for spam that meets all the criteria for
spam, and also isn't addressed to me. That helps a lot, because I do look through both
spam folders, but I pay less attention to the spammier one.
You can Dcrop 22 to 38 with in 4 months.
Is that good or bad?
Most of the sponsorships now are by giving women server space and bandwidth, so they can operate their web sites without having to pay these fees. There's also photoshoots, which gets some revenue into their hands, as well as the traditional direct-funding sponsorship.
Here's the full list of DtV family web sites
Member | Posts |
| boomerflex | 1165 |
| TomNine | 1047 |
| Jerroll | 903 |
| micha74 | 756 |
| rainer0000 | 578 |
| bro007 | 545 |
| gaily304 | 527 |
| buffy18976 | 475 |
| heather.pedigo | 317 |
| shad349 | 280 |
| ginny2442 | 257 |
| zig563 | 203 |
| madman3579 | 201 |
| mit19237 | 176 |
| rob2006 | 155 |
| minion666 | 145 |
| lilguy31 | 134 |
| Diana the Valkyrie | 126 |
| mac999 | 124 |
| donp.wpc | 79 |
Boomer is the man this month, Tom hard on his heels.
There's been a major discussion on my board, about the message board software. Once again, we're talking about the idea of changing to a different software package, possibly to YaBB (that's the package I put on Herbiceps and other sites). But I've also been changing the existing software to accomodate many of the things that people say they want.
Look here to see a new style of board, with threads, and multiple posts on the same page, and the ability to handle as many inline links as you want to have. The old style of viewing the boards will still be available when that version of the software starts to be used.
2259 posts this month.
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| Sports still very strong. | Zig and Boomer head the list, probably because of all the sports postings. |
Mavis is counting the number of times the message list is checked for each board. This gives a very different picture from the one above.
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| Scooby has edged out the FBB board | The Grinch got the stats |
This is the way to fly!
I checked the site statistics that Sandra counts up each night.
At the end of October 2006, there were about 928,000 pictures (74 gigabytes), 200 gigabytes of video, 10,600 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about 275 gigabytes. There's about 210 million pictures altogether in Newsthumbs, increasing at about 5 million per month.