Well, we can start with a nice update: got a new LCD TV, a 26 inches Panasonic Viera. PlayStation games have gained a new life now, and I can play without bothering anyone else :p By the way, if you have a PS2 and a LCD TV, get a composite cable. The difference is amazingly substantial. If you got a PS3, well, just get a HDMI cable

Speaking of PlayStation games, I got to the 50% barrier on Gran Turismo 4. Just hopping to get to 100% before GT5 gets out, tough something tells me I still have plenty of time to do that.

I’m now looking for a new place as well. With the recession and all that one would expect prices to go down, but if anything they went up. So for now I’m on the lookout for a nice self contained studio.

Well, that’s it for now. Time to go back to GT4 and get up the ladder a little more.

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