Your Mother Sucks Cock in Hell

Oh my. Satanism is rising! We need to act now before all is lost! Thank our magical sky daddy our new pope super hero has come to save the day. According to these articles the vatican has issued a new era of exorcism.

Really, as devout Satanist I’m laughing my ass off. Of course I can’t be bothered with catholic nonsense but this sure is hilarious. Again, they’ve got it all backwards. Their primary motivation behind all of this is the renewed interest in the occult. I think Dan Brown has helped this impulse, too.
Quoting Father Paolo Scarafoni:

Interest in Satanism and the occult had grown as people lost their faith in the Church. People suffer and think that the Devil can help solve their problems.

There’s the backwards view of the chatholics in one quote.

It’s the other way around, friend. People suffer and think your all powerful bearded cloudman has all the answers. They turn to the occult, which is the catholic church, to seek answers from this fairytale being. When they realise they can’t grab any answers out of the sky they turn to what they can see, leaving the catholic church. This is translated to the exact opposite by the catholics.

This does not mean people turn to Satanism all of a sudden. They’ve pulled that fact out of their christian asses. Many people still believe Satanism is about demons, devils and dark evil magic and such, while in fact catholicism is the religion claiming all these things to exist. So these exorcists can only “help” catholics get rid of their own fantasies. Exorcism is actually just a way to keep those who loose themselves in catholicism from leaving the church.

The other use of exorcism can be found in the fear tactics used by the catholic church. They prey upon the mentally weak and blame their illnesses to some devil. This provides “proof” for the existence of the devil, hell, and after exorcism, god. The exorcism shouldn’t be underestimated. For the victim it’s an emotional experience which can be potentially dangerous for the mental stability of the victim. It shows many parallels with the Satanic ritual because it uses the strenght of an emotional experience to achieve goals. The big difference is that the participant doesn’t take part in the ritual willingly but is forced to participate. It’s also questionable if the victim of this ritual actually wants to be part of the ritual. Some people are just mentally too unstable to clarify their needs. People have been known not to recover from an exorcism, that’s why the catholic church has practically banned the practice. Until now that is.

If all the bishops do what they’re told we should have real exorcists here in the Netherlands really soon. I’d like a session myself. I’m the antichrist after all. I can even quote the bible:

Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist–he denies the Father and the Son.
Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

The only thing I’ve got to do is act possessed and call the exorcist-hotline. I’m sure they want to drive out my devil. But beware, it’s a powerful one. Would I fit the description? I’m a Satanist, I really, really hate the catholic church and I can scream really loud. I’m not kidding here, I’m going to try to get an exorcism. Let’s just hope I don’t have to kill some priests before they’ll give me one.

Mister Lee is my Sensei

A long, long time ago, when I was a little boy, I got my first radio. It was an old white clock radio with big red LED digits. Sturdy rubber buttons controlled the clock and tuned the receiver. With the late seventies - early eighties design it was a perfect decorative piece to any geek’s hangout. It’s one of those things Star Trek’s Scotty would have used his famous saying for, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to”. My father gave it to me after it had served him for years before he got married. The thing had lost it’s whiteness but functioned perfectly, and still continues to do so.

Every young kid wants to stay up late, especially when their parents tell them not to. So I refused to go asleep. I used to turn on the radio and listen to it in secrecy. After a few months of switching between stations, I discovered a hidden station I had never heard before. I had to position the antenna wire in a very awkward position to remove most of the static out of the signal. It was a station I only seemed to be able to receive at night somehow, during the day the radio would only play static.

The guy presented himself as Mister Lee. His show was called “Mister Lee’s Crazy Washing Machine”. It could just as well be something else, because the guy talked English with a very heavy Chinese accent and I was six years old. It does make sense in a way, because most of the launderettes are run by Chinese people. Anyway, it was a radio show completely filled with him talking about stuff (and me guessing what the fuck he was talking about) and the most brutal metal I had ever heard. Actually, before Mister Lee came around I didn’t even know about the genre.

I think my taste for the right kind of music and my affinity with the English language at a young age are largely contributed by Mister Lee. As of now I will honor his doings by giving him the Sensei title. Now, here are some offerings to our new Sensei.

Progressive, but so good. Katatonia’s July is one of the best progressive songs out there and can line up next to Opeth’s Face of Melinda.

Kataklysm is to make up for the progressive. This song, Crippled and Broken, clearly shows their quality. Need I say more?

Classic. Like Death. Like it. Listen to it!

New Data Center

This weekend we’ve moved all of our Sun machines over to our new data center provider, NXS. We’ve moved from Redbus Interhouse to the brand new DCG, which is quite an improvement. I’m glad TransIP has made the decision not to stay at Redbus. Not that Redbus was bad, but DCG is just a bit more modern and secure. It can also handle a lot more servers than Redbus. There have also been some major problems at Redbus lately concerning their flaky power supply. We’ve exploited the downtime to update the servers to the latest Linux kernel. We hope to get the same level of stability from this kernel as the 2.6.18-cks1 we’ve used before.

I’m sure you guys want some specs and pictures of our new home, so here they are. Geek pr0n, if you wish.

Data Center:

  • Building: 1200m2 at 750kg/m2
  • Floor: Raised 0.4m
  • Racks: 1.2m deep 46u Minkels
  • Power supply: 2 MVA redundant via ring
  • Transformers: 2×1000KVA
  • Power distribution: 230V AC, optional dual independent (2N) circuits
  • Power: Average of 16A per rack, with a maximum of 32A per rack
  • UPS: 2 x 600 KVA static UPS (upgradeable)
  • Diesel Gensets: 2 x 1400 KVA diesel gensets
  • Generator Supply: 48 hours onsite diesel with 24 hours refill
  • Air Conditioning: ACU’s for data rooms. Free cooling concept
  • Capacity: Average of 3.7kw/rack, maximum of 8kw/rack
  • Chilled water generation: DX Cooling, 2N pumps, N+1 ACU’s
  • Heat disposal: N+1 redundant dry chillers on roof
  • Temperature: 22°c in cooling corridor
  • Relative Humidity: 50%
  • Rack Cooling: Cooling corridors
  • High density: Up to 8 kW
  • Fire Prevention: VESDA, Automatic Aron gas system
  • Security: 24/7/365 on-site. Biometrics at all doors

Network:

  • Routing: Redundant Juniper MX-960 routers
  • Switching: Foundry FastIron SX 1600 switches
  • Network: AS20857 (TransIP)
  • Peering:
    • AMS-IX (10Gb/s)
    • Open Peering (10Gb/s)
    • AboveNet (2×1Gb/s)
    • Cogent (2×1Gb/s)
    • FLAG (1Gb/s)
  • Edge Capacity: 960Gb/s

Wasda.nl Fleet - Amsterdam

  • Edge Capacity: 400Mb/s
  • Hardware: Sun Fire x64
  • Machines: x2100, x2100 M2, x4100
  • Effective Storage Capacity: 2.4TB
  • Effective CPU Capacity: 29298 bogomips
  • OS: Debian GNU/Linux
  • Backup: Active redundant off site rsync

There you go, now go clean up the mess you’ve made.