May The Stars Light Your Way
As some of you know, Festivus — celebrated on Dec. 23 — is the holiest day in the "Seinfeld" religion. And we’re not talking about Judaism. Festivus was started by Frank Costanza, George’s irritable father, as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas, and was…
Ed selected our destination this month, choosing Swami’s MAYURA in Clifton. Several members of the group braved the cold to enjoy the warmth and generosity of Swami, who played host to all of us and tantelized us with excellent Indian food.
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 184 pin DIMM memory. Our BogoMIPS (which you remember is a number indicating how many million times per second your computer can do absolutely nothing) went from 3329.22 under the old configuration to 3997.29 under this new setup.
Everything seems to have installed smoothly. Please let me know if you spot any problems, and enjoy the speedy new system!
I also updated the forum to version 1.30final.
I also performed a comprehensive system backup with a new tool — Acronis TrueImage 6.0. It’s a nice graphical backup/restore utility, but unfortuantely, it’s an offline backup — it cannot be run on a ‘live’ operating system, so the site was down for about 75 minutes during the backup.
On Saturday, November 15, 2003, Wendy & I opened our house for the second annual HIGH END APPETIZER & DESSERT PARTY. What’s a HIGH-END APPETIZER & DESSERT PARTY, you ask? We asked that each couple bring a high-end Appetizer OR high-end Dessert, and (at least)…
This article was written by Joe Ferrari. Thanks for submitting it, Joe! Sorry this has taken so long, but it has been a hectic 7 weeks since returning from the Iberostar Bavaro. You may have read my review of the Iberostar Dominicana from March. My…
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 for Red Hat Linux early in 2004.
There was a little downtime — maybe 90 minutes — during the upgrade, for which I apologize.
Please let me know if you spot any strange behavior on the site!
This month, it was Doug’s turn to select our destination, and he chose JO AN, a formal Japanese restaurant in Kentucky. A group of us enjoyed the upscale setting and excellent food at the restaurant. Another successful Happy Mouth!