All the server infrastructure has been succesfully migrated to the new virtualized ecosystem.
The name is also changed: from now on, the name will be kernel-panic.no-ip.net
 
Beside this, note that the old domain name will remain fully operational until further notice.

Some changes will occurr (and some are already in progress) on kernel-panic.
First of all, I'm moving from a single phisical machine platform to a multiple VM one. Some services are already migrated and others will be in the next weeks.
 
The other big change is the domain change.
 
Yes, I said domain change. DynDNS doesn't  fit my purposes anymore, so I'm switching to a different dynamic DNS provider. However, I think that the actual DynDNS domain will be kept for at least one year (but maybe more) to ease the name change.

Tomorrow will start the 6 Nations, and for the grand-opening, the first match will be France-Italy !!! Ok, not quite a big match in matters of gameplay, but the historical rivalry between italians (us) and french (them) will spice up the competition. The last year Italrugby defeated France by 22-21 at Stadio Flaminio (Rome): the second victory against them in the italian history of Rugby. Obviously I hope for more and more victories (and to finally leave the wooden spoon for someone else).

Have you ever wondered what's the feel of fly a Boeing 737 ???
Have you ever dreamed about sitting just behind the yoke, push the throttle to TOGA, getting faster and faster, then pull the yoke and take this damn thing up in the sky ???
 
Last Sunday I've experienced that feeling in a training centre in London Heathrow airport.
And with a very special instructor: Bruce Dickinson !!!
 

A simple ping response just to say "Hey, I'm still here !!!"

The Rugby World Cup 2011 has just started, and of course I couldn't miss Italy's first match in this competition.
So this morning, at 5.20 AM, I was at my parent's to follow the match on TV. Well, you'll say "WTF !!! Why in the hell's name you've got up so early on a Sunday morning to watch one of the crappiest fifteen in the world lose another game !!!"

Welcome to the New Server !!!
 
Yes, we changed the server that host this bunch of pages. Ye olde notebook has ceased its service as temporary webserver and has been replaced by a brand new full-optionals server. Also the moving was not only virtual: the New Server is located about 3NM from the previous one, so it's in fact a real moving. Well, actually is not quite a real server but a small mini-ITX box powered by the last dual-core Atom CPU (after all it's a home server, not an enterprise one and I'm the one expected to pay the electricity bill).
 

Well, as I previously stated, this year is full of new exciting challanges for me. Everything in my life is changing and evolving in such a ludicrous speed you can't even imagine. Sometimes I take a break and I start looking at what I've done in the last months (and what I'm still doing) and I wonder if it isn't really too much for me. Well, is tough and hard, but I'm not gonna stop. I gonna walk on, through the whole way and then beyond. I'll gonna go on untill I've reached the top, to see the new horizons opening in front of me (to boldly go where no man has gone before).

In matter of facts, the huge tragedy of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the shadow of an impending nuclear disaster are far worse of my server problems.

And this is only the last of a long list of dramatic situations as the riots in the arab countries and the civil war in Libya.

With all of these catastrophes that are happening all around the world, affecting millions of people, I realize how stupid and selfish I was in my previous complains about my insignificant server problems.

..they can really make you mad.

Other things just make you swear and curse.

 

             For example the total failure of the HDD of the server running your website and your primary e-mail service...

 

When you're chewing on life's gristle

Don't grumble, give a whistle