Runs with knives!
My buddy Doug Daulton pointed me toward a sweet deal on a motherboard/processor combo, so I took the opportunity to upgrade the server to a 2.0Ghz Athlon processor, which more than tripled the speed (BogoMIPS, for what they’re worth, went from 1064.96 under the old…
We came back from vacation (stories & pictures to follow) to find that our network had been zapped. Probably by lightning. Our ADSL modem was fried and the keyboard & PS2 port on the webserver — the new motherboard — has been fried. Now every…
I’ve noticed that this week my site has been unavailable a lot. As it turns out, the issue is with TZO, the service that connects my dynamically-assigned IP address with my domain name. TZO has been dumping my connection, which makes my site unavailable. I’ve…
After several days of hard work on the problem, my buddy Rabbitt was able to assess, track down, and squash an email issue I was having on the site. Because of the virus threat, ZoomTown (my network provider) made sending email from the site almost…
On Saturday, November 15, 2003, I performed a comprehensive backup of the server and upgraded the server’s operating system from Red Hat 8.0 to Red Hat 9.0. This is in preparation for an (eventual) move to Red Hat Fedora since Red Hat has announced end-of-life…
Today, I removed this site’s ailing motherboard (the PS2 ports, the mouse ports, and the USB ports were all non-functional) to be sent back for replacement. I replaced it with a Shuttle AK38N motherboard with a 2400 Athlon processor and 512 megs of PC3200 DDR…
After nearly three months of downtime, two replacement motherboards, countless emails to software authors & support folks, and hours & hours of time spent working to restore the system, this site is finally back up and running on the now-restored server hardware. Nearly everything in…