I’ve been watching it for the past 3 or 4 years. Whoever owns it doesn’t appear to be using it for a whole lot—probably just email if anything—and it definitely doesn’t seem to be a domain squatter. I was starting to think it was someone who registered the domain and forgot about it. When they forgot to renew the domain last month I figured it was finally going to be released.

Last night—the date the domain expired—I checked it and it was listed by CIRA as SUSPD. I.e., it had entered the 30-day “suspended” period where the owner has one final chance to renew before it’s released. I think CIRA charges a penalty for renewing a domain while it’s suspended, so whoever owns this domain apparently really wants it for something. I guess I can’t be too upset about it. Oh well.

ActionView::TemplateError (translation missing: de, number, human, storage_units, format) on line #8 of app/views/attachments/_form.rhtml:

I tracked the problem down to an incomplete German localization file. I’m not really a “web guy” so I haven’t taken the time to determine if my Redmine installation is out-of-date or just misconfigured. In any case, after adding the missing storage_unit entries to the de.yml file and restarting the server, it appears to be working now for German, or at least it works for me when using the German localization.

I’ll take a better look at it and fix up the other localizations when I get a chance.

We’ve been using IPv6 (Jasna may or may not be aware of it) on our network for about half a year. Since my ISP, TekSavvy, doesn’t route IPv6 traffic I’ve had to resort to 6to4 for the time being to pretend that I’m part of the great IPv6 Internet. For IPv6-capable sites, I connect over IPv6 and for those that aren’t, I connect over IPv4. It’s all very transparent, so I checked my router stats to see how much of our bandwidth was actually happening over IPv6 and it was only about 0.01%, very discouraging.

A large proportion of our bandwidth comes from Usenet, so I went to see if I could find IPv6-capable Usenet servers to help fight the good fight. As it turns out, there are three free Usenet servers which are IPv6 capable, all of them being in the Netherlands. I tried all three and one of them actually worked for me.

Finally, I decided to make this site, Wizardlike, IPv6-capable. Well my hosting company, Dreamhost, doesn’t support IPv6, but there’s a friendly site, again in the Netherlands, called IPv6Proxy, which will proxy any hosted site. Thus, if you want to connect via IPv6, you can no go to ipv6.wizardlike.ca (note: even if you aren’t IPv6-capable, that site will still work. Due to how IPv6Proxy is set up, the hostname has to be IPv4 reachable). The reason I created a separate domain for the IPv6-reachable site is that it can be rather slow. Consider:

If you’re like me hanging out in Canada, connecting to IPv6Proxy in the Netherlands just so that it can connect to Dreamhost in California and then relay the website back to you is a little silly and adds about 100ms of latency.

In addition to ipv6.wizardlike.ca there’s also ipv6.projects.wizardlike.ca.

So far it’s just this blog, which replaces my old blog, and my software projects site. Over the coming weeks and months the website will likely spread, at least into an image gallery, and maybe also into a genealogy database and a teaching resources site. It’s also fantastically nice to have my email, XMPP (Jabber), data back-up and repository services under one domain.