Drakfot's things

Monster - Part 8

The rain seemed to keep pouring down even harder now as she was aware that she no longer was in the comforting embrace of her bed. It sucked, but as far as she could tell it was not a dream, and there she was was all wet and even more

Monster

Monster - Part 7

Did she have a blackout? Was the memory from that night causing her that much pain that she'd lost consciousness? Her head was aching like hell anyway. “You are still very weak, Prey" Fuck, it wasn't a dream that she had hoped for. He is

Script

CreateApp.sh - Simple script to create a .app of Manuskript for MacOS

I was looking for an application to use on multiple platforms to organize my various writing projects and I came upon Manuskript. It is available on Linux, MacOS and Windows which covers my requirement of multiple platforms. In order to simplify its use on MacOS I have created a small

Script

Simple script to update self hosted Ghost.org blogging platform

NOTE: Since the release of ghost 1.0 this guide is deprecated! This is a quick script to automate the update process of the self hosted Ghost.Org platform. This script is based on the guide found here. The “APP_INIT” part of the script is based on chovy’s

Ryzom

The tale of the Preposterous Painting

(Ryzom Halloween event 2015) Each year a time passes on Atys called Anlor Winn. This be a time where the lands are stirred in an odd fashion of both joy, laughter and smiles. But there are also the notion of an underlying fear, the lands seems extra restless indeed. There

misc

Three cheers for Qraze! 90km on skis done

My friend Qraze just finished Vasaloppet, a mad 90km ski route through the odd lands in Sweden. Quite an effort indeed! Clicky (in Swedish). Yeah, he’s crazy :)

Story

Monster - Part 6

Akemi stood there for a moment, staring at her empty hand. The hand that just now held the hand of the little girl. But now it was empty. There was not a single thing that would tell that there was once a little girl, and dog, at her side. In

Tech

Guild wars 2 Mac - Black screen

If you suffer from a black screen when starting Guild Wars 2 on Mac there is a workaround available. The reason for the window becoming black (if you know the positions you can actually enter you e-mail address and password and login) I do not know. But there have been

Fantasy

Monster - Part 5

“Who is that?” She said as she turned around. But the room was empty. “Oh, you are most aware of who I am, prey” The dark voice continued. It was as if it also dampened the light in the room as it spoke. Yet Akemi was not able to discern

misc

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Another year has passed already and another one is to come. It’s been quite a fun year with some fun happenings – Dreamhack Winter 2014 to mention one – and hopefully the coming year will hold some more fun stuff! Thanks you all whom have read any of the rantings I

Tech

Powershell - Script to list total size of files in HomeDirectory

HomeDirFileSize Following up on the POWERSHELL – SCRIPT TO LIST THE SIZE OF USERS HOMEDIRECTORY script posted earlier this script goes through the users HomeDirectory and tries to sum up the total size of the files based on their file type. It is not intended to give an exact measurement, there

Powershell

Powershell - script to list the size of users HomeDirectory

GetHomeDirectorySize At times it might be interesting to have a look at the size of files etc that are stored by the users on the file servers. Specifically if you use Folder redirection etc, and if the free space on the file servers seems to be shrinking at an alarming

DHW14

Dreamhack Winter 2014

Since we had such a blast at Dreamhack we decided that we should pay it another visit. And so, tomorrow, we set off towards Jönköping and Elmia for a few days of gaming and other sillyness that may happen. One of the most delightful parts of last year was to

Fantasy

Monster - Part 4

“If that is your class room I suggest that you go directly to the auditorium. We will inform all the students of your class about a temporary solution. Now hurry on!” The headmaster said trying to hide a clear sensation of stress, failing utterly. Somehow Akemi felt very doubtful to

Mac

OS X Server - Open Directory not starting after upgrade

After upgrading my OS X Server to version 10.10.3 I noticed that the Open Directory was not running, and refused to when trying to start it again. After some searching in the log files and on the web I came to the conclusion that it was corrupt, which

Fantasy

Monster - Part 3

It took her quite a while, but finally she had found some medications to bring home to treat the little dog in her apartment. She had to make an effort in order to find anyone whom could give her advice on what might be the reason for the dog to

Fantasy

Monster - Part 2

The alarmclock was giving off its irrirtating noise as it was early enough to get up. She extended her arm trying to snooze the evil sounding devil . But the clock was not where it used to be, instead she just hit the floor with her arm. The sensation of pain

Fantasy

Monster - Part 1

The room was nearly as black as the night. But still she approached it knowing that what was waiting inside was not of this world. In fact, it was the sort of thing that parents – and scary stories – warned little kids about in order for them to go to sleep.

Linux

Quick Script to autoupdate Binero DynDNS

Automtically update your Binero DynDNS to point to your current (dynamic) IP If you are using Binero and you recive your external IP via DHCP there is a chance that it might change during a restart of your router, or during maintenance etc. This is fine, unless you are having

Gaming

Playing Blackwell Epiphany on Mac

Finally the good people over at Wadjet Eye Games – known for games like The Shivah,Primordia,Gemini Rue and Resonance – have finally released Blackwell Epiphany, the last of the Blackwell series. And what a grand finale it is! I noticed that if you purchased the game via GOG.com you

Tech

Quick Note: Playing Moebius: Empire rising on Mac? Be careful with your save files!

So Moebius – the latest creation of adventure veteran Jane Jensen – is finally out and also available on Mac! Just a quick note regarding the save files on OSX (Mac) which I found out the hard way. First some background info on how I made this discovery: I was playing the

Backup

kvm_manage.sh - A script to manage your KVM machines

Note: Maarten commented in another post that there is a bug in Ubuntu related to snapshotted machines, which basically this scripts creates. Please read more here!! This script is based on kvm_backup.sh that I have posted earlier. It is a copy of the previous one, but with some

Backup

KVM: Backup VM disks without downtime

Note: I have been informed that there is a bug in Ubuntu related to snapshotted machines, which basically this scripts creates. Please read more here!! UPDATE: There is an updated version of the script available here. It is based on the script below, but will have some additional features included.

Powershell

Check Hyper-V replication status with Powershell

Setting up Hyper-V replication is a quick way to gain redundancy. The setup is quite straightforward but will not be covered in this guide. To keep track of the replication it would be nice  to have it automated and that you will be notified if something goes wrong. A weekly

Powershell

Quick Note: Automount Windows Storage Pools

If you have created a Storage Pool on a machine it will automatically mount during reboots. But if you were to reinstall the Windows Server OS (clean install / upgrade) the storage pools may not be automatically mounted during restarts – something I discovered as my replication node did a restart due