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May 3, 2005
Yay, I just trashed the OS install on my PowerBook and dumped a bare 10.4 install on there. Time to reinstall everything.
Category computers
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May 3, 2005
Maybe I’m crazy or just a little out of it or something, but I’m kinda thinking that maybe I should sell my Dual 2.0 PowerMac G5 on eBay and just stick with the PowerBook?
This weekend’s experiences showed me that it’s quite a bit of machine… The only issue would be disk space, but I could use external FW disks when I’m doing anything major.
Compaq / HP iLO / RILOe?
April 28, 2005
Has anyone who reads this ever worked with Compaq / HP iLO / RILOe boards? And more specifically, have they used them with Linux?
I’ve got a Linux-based boot floppy here that works just fine when booted in the server, but when you create an image and try to use it via the iLO / RILOe virtual floppy (this is on multiple servers) it doesn’t complete booting. On iLO it finishes reading the kernel early, then gives an error decompressing the kernel (because it didn’t read it all in). On the RILOe boards it reads the kernel and boots it, but gives an IO error when attempting to load the filesystem.
Guh, I just don’t know.
Whee!
April 14, 2005
Local system status:
3:01AM up 369 days, 14:15, 0 users, load averages: 2.88, 1.18, 0.73
Woo! bornslippy.nuxx.net (the webserver that I host bunches of people on) has been up for more than a year…
Oh, and those loads are because this uptime was emailed as part of the daily jobs running at 3am. I get a bit of a load spike there.
If things go according to plan, I’ll be replacing this server within the next few months. I’m just taking my time to ensure that the new one is stable.
The newer machine should be a considerably faster dual-CPU machine. This would speed things up bunches when using things like… Gallery v2 and the image transforms (rotations especially) from v1. (The one I currently run, like at my gallery.)
For what it’s worth, that well-performing webserver that currently hosts… Oh… 17 domains and a number of subdomains and pushes out ~2GB of traffic per day is a Pentium II 450mhz (development sample running at 5x 100) with 384MB of RAM. As of right now, that motherboard/CPU has been powered on for all but six months since November of 1998.
Not bad… Once it’s retired, that motherboard will definitely go up on the wall as a piece of memorabilia.
Server…
April 7, 2005
So… I’m trying to figure out what disks to use in my web server when I upgrade/replace bornslippy.nuxx.net.
I’m going to do RAID 0+1, so I need four disks. 80GB disks are $60/ea. 160GB disks are $89/ea. (Both prices are for Western Digital Special Edition 8MB 7200RPM 3-Year warranty disks.)
So, for $240 I can have 160GB total space, or for $356 I can have 320GB. The 320GB option would allow me to back up all the data I have to the webserver… Plus $44 for the pair of disk controllers and a few dollars for some brand new round cables.
This could potentially be good, because it’d give me space for absolutely completely offsite backup.
That said, do I really want to shove all my personal data up to what’s essentially a public server? I guess it’d be all right if I did it via an encrypted filesystem that I mount only when doing backups… That would get the data backups completely out of my house.
This space is definitely not used for the existing content of the site, which I believe currently clocks in at around 15GB – 20GB.
Ideas? Ideas?
Ugh.
April 2, 2005
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 26731 root 4 0 2828K 2220K crydev 0 5:26 0.00% 0.00% openssl
Nothing like watching openssl get unexplainably stuck, and seeing others report similar issues with, what appears to be cryptodev. This is when running openssl speed -engine cryptodev in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a Broadcom BC5805-based crypto accelerator.
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March 30, 2005
Stupid fscking Linux-specific apps:
In file included from diag_os_linux.c:53,
from diag_os.c:38:
diag_os.h:110:34: linux/serial.h: No such file or directory
In file included from diag_general.c:30:
diag_os.h:110:34: linux/serial.h: No such file or directory
In file included from diag_dtc.c:30:
diag_os.h:110:34: linux/serial.h: No such file or directory
mkdep: compile failed.
make: *** [.depend] Error 1
p-p-p-powerbook:~/Downloads/freediag-0.3/src c0nsumer$
VoodooPad
March 24, 2005
After a recommendation from
Help!
March 21, 2005
Could someone who’s familiar with Apache’s mod_rewrite and regexp help me understand what’s wrong with the following statements?
# Slashdot video…
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://*slashdot* [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} /files/videos/bull_512k.mov [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /files/videos/sorry_slashdot.mov [R=301,L]
I know I’m doing something wrong, but I’m not sure what…
Thank you. :)
GNU netcat under Cygwin
March 15, 2005
To compile a static copy of GNU netcat under Cygwin:
CFLAGS=-static ./configure –disable-nls ; make
Guh. Finally. Too bad I need to include cygwin1.dll with it all…