Soon, I will discontinue maintenance on this site.
Fret not though! I am moving to a bigger/better/more server. This site will be hosted on my GIANT INTERNET BANDWIDTH JUGGERNAUT, where I will be able to sell products, pimp devices, and otherwise do anything I want to. Also, I will be releasing all of my robot information under a creative commons license, with the option to buy parts, in case you have no CNC machine available ;)
Oh yeah... you too can view my utterly pathetic weblog page view statistics!
I love this stuff!
Adobe CS is (I swear) so much faster than the old PS7/AI10 combo that I was using before.
I love it.
Buy it.
Now.
SpaceMeat is Adobe's little bitch.
Wonderful technology huh? I don't have administrator privs on that box though, so I am probably screwed.
Broadcast.rantradio went down due to routing/address issues today. Not my fault/problem for once. Imagine my relief. The (separate) dual PIII Rantradio.com box seems to be working marvelously.
Happy me!
Broadcast should be up by this evening.
This server is now running on a Dual PIII 500 server, with 256 megs of ram, and 27gigs of space. Yay!
Sorry for the unscheduled down time, but it all happened so fast.
The server will be down tonight for most of the night, due to unscheduled (dying) hard drive issues (again).
I LOVE EASYDNS. They provide the DNS service for this site, mostly because I am too lazy to do it myself.
I was surprised to find that none of my domains went down during the power outage that hit the east coast a week ago. The reason follows....
Dear easyDNS Member,
As most of your are aware, at about 4pm EST on Aug 14, 2003, many cities
in North America including Ottawa, Toronto, New York, and Detroit
experienced a major power outage.
Although we lost power to our office and were unable to provide
telephone support during the outage, we are happy to report that none of
our other systems were affected during the outage, and customer domains
continued to operate normally.
You may be wondering then, why we are sending this email now, when the
power outage happened a week ago. The answer is that with the increased
volume of spam, email viruses, and worms all vying for your attention we
felt it was better to wait. In short, we felt is was better to post
information on our web site's status page and wait until internet email
activity calmed down a bit before we sent you this update directly.
We would also like to remind you that you may check the status of our
systems at anytime by visiting:
http://support.easydns.com/status.php3
Thank you,
The easyDNS staff.
Had a HELL of a time repairing the dead hard drive on the server this weekend. All kinds of obscure problems popped up. Finnaly narrowed it down to a combo of a flaky mount process for the boot partition, and a poor Init script system due to leftover cruft from the Mandrake install.
Everything should be up and happy as of RIGHT NOW.
I ahve also noticed a speed-up of about 10x for most server tasks, due to fewer hard drive timeouts. Who'da thunk!
Addendum to yesterday's rant....
The hard drive on this server is toast. It is complaining via SMART that it is severely degraded and should be replaced immediately.
Lame.
To make matters worse, the local bike shop is down-sizing.
I have added a download section to the right hand bar, near the bottom. Now you can get to StreamJacker (updated to 221b) even quicker!
Just set up a Movable Type server here, separate from my current personal MT site. I guess now I have to find some friends who want to have blogs. Neat huh? Send me an e-mail if you are interested (and I know you). Already added GOTL.
I have finally taken the plunge and converted my system to Movable Type so as to make the maintenance chores a little easier.
After all, 100 thousand bloggers can't be wrong. I am still a little uncomfortable with ugo+rwx permissions on the db directory though...
<reference="simpsons">Month and a half with no update makes blog something something.</reference>
In unrelated news, later on I will post a quick and effective guide to hot-swappable USB2.0 large size hard drives under Linux. Just got it dialed, and it KICKS ASS!
Just a quick note. We have changed the IP address of the server today. All DNS should be OK, but let me know if you find any problems.
In case any of you were wondering, there are still some issues with the forum. I had to make the filesystem automatically touch all of the php files in order to prevent Apache from continuing to munge the cache-expiry times of the scripts that generate the forums. I also had to change some other people's scripts in order to get them working with register_globals turned off (you know who you are). Please let me know if you encounter any other problems. Check the archives for more details.