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Month: June 2002

Published June 26, 2002

What a wonderful storm we had today. I arrived home from work just in time to see the deep purple, grey, and blue clouds boiling up above my house. I wandered around outside a little, came in, then the downpour started.

It was just so wonderful… The lightning, the rain, the wind, everything just right.

Tonight I started work on two projects. Well, one of them is actually a continuation of something I was doing about a year ago. Tonight I put the first coat of paint on the door leading from my laundry room into the garage. It was half painted the original builder’s tan, and the other half was the aweful flat gray my uncle painted most of this place when my grandparents lived here. Now both sides have an initial coat of the green smokish color that my kitchen and laundry room both are.

The other thing I started back on was building a bed. About a year ago I decided that I wanted a nice solid wood bed. Since nice solid wood beds are prohibitively expensive, I decided to build one. It’s a solid oak mission style bed. I think it will be finished in a fairly standard darker oak color to match the furnature that is already in my bedroom. Some new hardware on the furnature, a new ceiling fan, lamps, and some other accessories and the bedroom should look good. It’ll also be nice to have a queen sized bed instead of the twin that I’ve had my whole life. If you’re interested in seeing pictures, they are in the newest catagory at the standard place.

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PHP Redux.

Published June 24, 2002

Ahh… Whatever boneheaded move was made by Liquidweb has been set right. They said they did an Apache upgrade to fix a security hole. It looks like they didn’t test everything that they have that ties in with Apache. Ah well. It’s back to normal, I can’t complain.

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No Change Control Process

Published June 24, 2002

Whee! To make the day even better, it looks like my hosting company, Liquidweb, went and made some changes to the PHP configuration on the server that my domain is on.

Currently going to the photo gallery gives this:

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1209 is not allowed to access /home/nuxx/public_html/asdellhouse_albums/.users/userdb.dat owned by uid 99 in /home4/nuxx/public_html/asdellhouse/platform/fs_unix.php on line 53

Warning: fopen(“/home/nuxx/public_html/asdellhouse_albums/.users/userdb.dat”, “r”) – Inappropriate ioctl for device in /home4/nuxx/public_html/asdellhouse/platform/fs_unix.php on line 53

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: geteverybody() in /home4/nuxx/public_html/asdellhouse/init.php on line 175

Now I’m sitting on hold, waiting for whoever in support to get back to me. Perhaps they are fixing it? I hope so… Who knows, though. I’m starting to see the reasons why it’s nice to have change controls entered for work to be done. Maybe an ISO process isn’t such a bad thing…

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The ultimate discovery…

Published June 21, 2002

So yesterday I get home and my garage door doesn’t work. Hrm. Power failure! Another one… It seems that there was a scheduled power outage that I wasn’t informed of. So that makes what, 8 hours in the past two weeks?

Well, I just got off of the phone with the DTE Ombudsman for my area. It seems that my area had the power pulled from it to keep from overloading (and probably burning out, I’d assume) equipment. Supposedly there is a new substation going online this weekend or next week. I rather hope that this new substation will keep power on like normal. Fortunately I’m going out of town this weekend with fade_the_fallen so I won’t be using much electricity. I’ll down the firewall, array, file server, throw the thermostat to 78 or 80, etc. Pretty much try to cut usage down to really close to zero.

Pictures of the trip should be available when I get back. I might even post while I’m there… Who knows…

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Atto! Atto! Atto!

Published June 19, 2002

Well, it seems that the fibre channel array may be working fine after all. Kinda. I ran it through the works with ATTO Disk Benchmark and I started seeing performance numbers that made more sense. But there was one really wierd thing. The write speeds peaked off at about 20 MB/sec while the read went up to about 95 MB/sec. Need to figure this one out… Maybe that’s why the drive just felt slow. I think it could also somehow be a limitation (of a setting?) on the controller. I’d like to rebuild the array, but I just don’t have the time to do a reformat / reinstall right now. Oh well. I’d check other settings, but my copy of GAM for Windows got messed up. Some random service is missing…

I got to work about 30 minutes ago. It’s quiet here right now. Just the sounds of my keyboard (and someone else’s) clacking away. Lunch today should be nice. Brian and I are supposed to meet up with Al over at a local Indian place. This particular place has a nice lunch buffet for a reasonable price. Maybe they’ll even have the fried cheese balls in syrup. I still swear that those things are doughnuts and not cheese.

Coffee just isn’t waking me up this morning. Maybe coworkers will. If they get here before I pass out.

Yesterday I learned that we have a rather nice Cisco lab downstairs in this very building. A fully stocked CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE lab, along with a bunch of other random stuff. Not bad. I think I’m going to pick up my CCNA, simply because it looks fairly easy and there’s never anything wrong with having a second cert and learning a bit more.

I think I’ll go grab another cup of coffee and take a little walk around. There’s a bunch of stuff to be done around here today, so I need to get going on all of that.

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Our Tax Dollars Hard At Work

Published June 15, 2002

Here’s something I came across recently. It’s a number of color (yes, color) photographs that were taken around Russia in the very early 1900s using a process involving three separate cameras and color filters. Thanks to the Library of Congress a number of these photos are available from this collection. First, read about how everything was done here. Then take a look at the full online archive of Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii’s color photos here. Thanks to the LoC we all have access to this (and many more) historical photographs online, including VERY high-res versions. I think I’m going to end up with a select few printed out and hung up around here.

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Fibre Channel. :(

Published June 8, 2002

Hrm. It seems that this new, quiet Seventeam power supply that I got isn’t that great after all. Today I turned off my machine to try changing out the cache and it wouldn’t turn back on. It seems something is hosed in the new power supply. So now I have to try and return one via mail order and also hope that the one I ordered for Sarah and Craig’s PC doesn’t suffer the same problem. Guess I’ll just have to burn it in extra good.

I thought the PS had killed the motherboard. Luckily that didn’t happen… I thought my machine was going to get it’s long overdue (and currently unaffordable) upgrade tomorrow. Ah well, heh. That’s all right. At least things are back to normal… Now I just need to figure out the fibre channel performance issue. Right now I’d get better speed out of selling it all and going to two striped IDE disks. :( At least I know that the 256MB of cache aren’t causing a problem. Hopefully it’s my old motherboard.

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