Google recommends using HTTP 503 “Service Unavailable” status codes. The 503 code indicates that the service (or page, or site) is temporarily unavailable, but that it is expected back again soon. This is better than using the 404 (not found), 302 ( moved temporarily), or 301 (moved permanently) codes, because it tells web crawlers that they should just come back and try again later.

Because I have no desire to manually make the cut-over to a SOPA Blackout .htaccess file at midnight (because I’m lazy), I took his .htaccess settings and made a modification to enable the settings for the tomorrow.  Here’s what I have:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# =====================
# SOPA Blackout
# =====================

# Set a custom error document for 503 errors
ErrorDocument 503 /503_sopa.html

# Cause all requests (except images) to generate a 503 error,
# which will produce the custom 503 error document
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpe?g?|png|gif) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !robots\.txt$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{TIME_YEAR} ^2012
RewriteCond %{TIME_MON} ^01
RewriteCond %{TIME_DAY} ^18
RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=503]

# =====================
# NOT SOPA Blackout
# =====================

# My other rewrite magic goes here.
</IfModule>

Additionally, I’ve shamelessly stolen the php.net SOPA 503 page because it is awesome.

You want to go back 10 minutes?

:earlier 10m

You want to go forward in time by 5 seconds?

:later 5s

Sweet cuppin’ cakes that’s ballsy. Armed with this tool, you step forward and backwards in your undo/redo adventure, you make an accidental edit. Whoops. Now all the code you’ve edited in the 10 minutes that you rolled back with the handy-dandy <code>:earlier</code> command is gone…right?

Nope! Undo branching is where the real awesomeness of Vim shines. If you realize your mistake, you can find a list of undo branches like so:

:undolist

Which will show you something like this:

number changes when saved

3 3 08:59:35
4 2 09:00:13

To jump to one of those branches, you can type:

:undo 3 or :undo 4

I <3 Vim

(via Life Hacker)

First, I checked the firewall found here:

/usr/bin/system-config-securitylevel-tui

So…the firewall was fine.  Next, I attempted to restart the network via:

/etc/init.d/network restart

I was surprised to receive the following error:

Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring. [FAILED]

Alrighty…bizarre.  So with the help of this article, I was able to determine that eth0′s MAC address:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0

was different than the MAC address found in:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

A simple edit to the above file and a quick network restart solved my problem and brought my sites back up! w00t!

Here’s the presentation:

When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back — bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge will die. And death is only the beginning.

For aboard the Star Destroyer, amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all, the dead are rising, soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

What is awesome is that there are a number of fans that have come up with trailers for the book. This post has a large number of them, but here’s my favorite.

Pretty creepy.

Wretched Hag
Equivalent of the Queen of Pain in DotA

Succubus
Equivalent of the Bane Elemental in DotA

For those interested, the full changeset is as follows:

Version 0.1.39
————–

General:
- Added PSR and clan information to the in-game player stats screen
- Changed requirements for Remake vote to pass
* It now requires the total number of players minus 2 to vote yes. If less than 4 people are voting, it requires
* If more than 4 people are voting, (total players – 2) votes are required to pass. If more than 2 people are voting, (total players – 1) votes required. Otherwise, 100% required to pass.
- Restricted game data not relevant to a players’ team
* This will prevent map hacks from working in HoN
- Fixed several effects showing up through the fog of war
- Updated Portuguese translation

New heroes:
- Wretched Hag, based on DOTA’s Akasha, the Queen of Pain
- Succubus, based on DOTA’s Bane Elemental

General Gameplay:
- Added team-based skills, Demonic Fortification for Hellbourne and Fortification of Sol for Legion
* These skills are accessed by clicking on any team structure then clicking on the corresponding button in the info pane in the lower right of the screen
* These skills share a global cool down time. Anyone on the team may activate them, but then they go into cool down for everyone
* When used, these skills apply +9999 armor to all allied structures

Arachna:
- Slightly increased visual size of the Spiderling
- Fixed a bug causing Spider Sting to not hit stealth units if they go stealth before the projectile hits them

Behemoth:
- Fixed some issues with fissure not impacting properly on higher level terrain or impacting units standing near the behemoth

Magmus:
- Added more detailed cast effects to Eruption and modified the animation. It should now be clearer when Magmus starts this skill

Pebbles:
- Reworked Chuck, it should now deal its damage consistently
- Units affected by Chuck will now take double the damage from Stalagmites
- Chuck will no longer be greyed out when no valid units are nearby to throw
- Reworked Stalagmites to properly delay based on distance
- Stalagmites now has a 600 base cast range, to match its DOTA counter-part
* Enlarge still increases the range of this skill by 50/100/150, making the maximum range now 750, from 700

Pestilence:
- Fixed a bug causing Swarm to not hit stealth units if they go stealth before the projectile hits them

Swiftblade:
- Swift Slashes will no longer hit siege units or gadgets

Bug fixes:
- Fixed a missing icon for Kongor’s Cheese

As I’ve posted many times on this blog, I’m a huge fan of DotA (Defense of the Ancients). It is only right that I suddenly become enamored with Heroes of Newerth (HoN), a game by S2Games currently in beta that matches the functionality of DotA and adds a layer of awesomeness on top.

I’ve played a number of games so far and have found one of my biggest hurdles is re-learning the heroes in HoN. Luckily, many of the heroes are simply ports of DotA heroes but learning who is who is also a slow process. Here are heroes in HoN with their DotA equivalents:

Quick Links

Legion: Agility | Intelligence | Strength

Hellbourne: Agility | Intelligence | Strength

Legion Agility Heroes

Back To Quick Links

HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Night Hound	=	Stealth Assassin
Swiftblade	=	Juggernaut
Magebane	=	Anti-Mage
Moon Queen	=	Moon Rider (Luna)
Valkyrie	=	Priestess of The Moon (Mirana)
Wildsoul	=	Lone Druid (Syllabear)
Scout	=	No Equivalent

Legion Intelligence Heroes

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HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Blacksmith	=	Ogre Magi
Thunderbringer	=	Lord of Olympia (Zeus)
Ophelia	=	Holy Knight (Chen)
Pollywog Priest	=	Rhasta
Pyromancer	=	Slayer (Lina Inverse)
Tempest	=	Enigma
Nymphora	=	No Equivalent
Zephyr (Owlman)	=	No Equivalent

Legion Strength Heroes

Back To Quick Links

HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Armadon	=	Bristleback
Behemoth	=	Earthshaker
Hammerstorm	=	Rogue Knight (Sven)
Jereziah	~=	Omniknight
Legionnaire	=	Axe
Pebbles	~=	Stone Giant (Tiny)
Keeper of the Forest	~=	Treant Protector
Predator	=	No Equivalent

Hellbourne Agility Heroes

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HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Chronos	=	Faceless Void
Slither	=	Venomancer
Blood Hunter	=	Bloodseeker
Soulstealer	=	Shadow Fiend
Arachna	=	No Equivalent
The Madman	=	No Equivalent
The Dark Lady	=	No Equivalent

Hellbourne Intelligence Heroes

Back To Quick Links

HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Defiler	=	Death Prophet (Krobelus)
Demented Shaman	=	Shadow Priest
Glacius	~=	Crystal Maiden
Hellbringer	~=	Warlock
Succubus	=	Bane Elemental
Torturer	~=	Tormented Soul (Leshrac)
Voodoo Jester	~=	Witch Doctor
Wretched Hag	=	Queen of Pain
Puppet Master	=	No Equivalent

Hellbourne Strength Heroes

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HoN Hero		DotA Hero
Accursed	=	Lord of Avernus (Abaddon)
Devourer	=	Butcher (Pudge)
Magmus	=	Sand King
Pharaoh	=	Clockwerk Goblin
Pestilence	=	Slithereen Guard (Slardar)
Warbeast	=	Lycanthrope
Electrician	=	No Equivalent
Kraken	=	No Equivalent

The result? Awesomeness! Check out one of my favorites by those guys:

DustFilms aren’t the only guys that are doing it though…there are some that try – many of them failing – but a few are worth while. Check out this Creed literal video translation (my favorite non-DustFilms video):