Diana the Valkyrie's Newsletter - August 2007
A hard man is good to beat
Summer in England! Torrential rain, followed by floods. Roll on winter.
Galleries added this month.
Stories added this month.
Movies added this month.
Nothing new.
I was making up a new server, when I heard an appalling grinding noise. Listening carefully with both ears, pinpointed it as my main Cisco switch. Gulp. If that goes down, then a whole lot of stuff is cut off from the internet. Chances are the grinding noise (which I guessed was a failing fan) will lead to overheating and then failure of the whole switch. So I replaced the switch. I took it apart and replaced the fan later, so that's ready to be reused.
I'm buying the 750 gb drives now. When I started building monster servers, I used eight 80gb drives in a 5u box to give me 640 gb. Now one little drive is more than that! I'm going to use two in each 1u server, giving me 1500 gb per box.
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 2000 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.
Chinese hand-made straw hats to you
No thanks
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 |
| april069 | 1974 |
| gwest55150 | 1973 |
| boomerflex | 1847 |
| buffy18976 | 1340 |
| Shea | 1111 |
| TomNine | 993 |
| Lionheart | 785 |
| Jerroll | 710 |
| rainer0000 | 378 |
| gaily304 | 320 |
| micha74 | 294 |
| mit19237 | 277 |
| bro007 | 246 |
| shad349 | 201 |
| gee1407 | 168 |
| steve5924 | 142 |
| ginny2442 | 111 |
| hiram2000 | 92 |
| Vixxxen | 88 |
| mac999 | 80 |
Several new folks in the chatroom
1606 posts this month.
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| Sport has gone quieter again | Homoancient flinging his scatology all over. |
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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| Politics takes the top of the table | Politics here too. |
I checked the site statistics that Sandra counts up each night.
At the end of June 2007, there were about 976,000 pictures (87 gigabytes), 256 gigabytes of video, 11,300 text files (mostly stories) and a total of about 345 gigabytes. There's about 255 million pictures altogether in Newsthumbs, increasing at about 5 million per month.