My home on the web

Today is a very nice day outside. Weather here behaves in a weird way, so we should enjoy it while it lasts.

Go out, ride your bike, or just to by the beach, get some sun and have fun.

For quite some time I’ve always had a home server, and to access it, the better way, for the people who have a dynamic IP, like me, is to use a free service like DynDns or no-ip.

The problem with this services is that it only gives you a subdomain, like server.dyndns.org. What if you want to run a couple of virtual hosts in apache at your home server? You would need to pay this free services a fee, so that you could use your own top level domain, like something.com.

Well, if you already have a domain, and have a control panel to edit the DNS entries of it (if you don’t have a control panel, you should, so change your registrar), you could create as many subdomains as you want, and pointing them with a CNAME to the subdomain you created on dyndns or no-ip.

This way, your real subdomains are always up to date with the correct ip of your home server.

To recap:

On dyndns, create a domain: server.dyndns.org

On your domain control panel for something.com, create a subdomain server.something.com and point it with a CNAME registry to server.dyndns.org.

Now, when you use server.something.com, you will be redirected to your home server. If you have different subdomains on something.com pointing to the dyndns subdomain, you can control on apache which websites will be active for each subdomain using virtual hosts.

Hope this was usefull for all of you

OK, so where do I start?

This movie is brilliant. Its shocking, is way out there, it pushes boundaries to places no one never thought of going before. And is amazingly cool.

I went to see this movie today, actually just arrived from the cinema, and everyone was laughing from minute one until the end. And in the end people were clapping.

Its a funny movie, but if you get impressed very easily, then maybe this is not the movie for you. There is a lot of explicit sexual content, so, don’t take your kids to see this movie as well (is 18+ for some reason).

I’ve finally watched the first episode of the remastered edition of Star Trek TOS. The DVDs arrived today, and, wow, is amazing. The picture quality, sound quality and the visual effects are astonishing. It feels like a new show (yes, the story is still very cheesy, but it’s Star Trek right?).

First episode seen, 29 episodes to go. Can’t wait to see all the others. To you people out there, go grab the remastered version and start watching as well. You wont be disappointed. I only hope they would remaster TNG, DS9 and Voyager. One can dream…

This is a nice way for me to start the Star Trek collection. Like all good things, we should always start from the beginning.

The remastered version (actually, the second remastered version), looks impressive. The show does not look as outdated as the original picture. The effects are much better now, the lights, the shadows, the sounds, well, everything.

Now in my collection is only missing two more seasons of TOS, full TNG, full DS9, full Voyager and full Enterprise (plus the animated series, although I don’t really want them that much, at least for now).