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August 1, 2005
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August 1, 2005
I got a bit bored this afternoon and installed v2 beta4 of the Gallery software that I use. If you’re interested in seeing how it looks after simply importing the photos from my normal gallery, just take a look here: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery2
Since it’s still in beta I’m not going to move to it yet, but that’s where I can see things going in a few months… It’s really, really swanky.
Oh, also, bornslippy.nuxx.net is turned off and in the back seat of my car. Everything is fully moved over to the new box.
If you’d like to see, I’ve got a screenshot of the shutdown of bornslippy.nuxx.net here (on gallery2) and here (on gallery1). For what it’s worth, 478 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes of uptime when shut down. If things go as planned, rez.nuxx.net will not be rebooted for quite some time… That, of course, is dependent on the hardware gods and my not screwing things up.
Now I go buy toilet paper. And dinner. Both are important. Very important.
rez.nuxx.net
August 1, 2005
Hey everyone… In case I host you on my webserver, you should know that I will be taking the server down for ~15 minutes, right around 12:00pm EDT today. This is because I’m pulling out the old server (bornslippy.nuxx.net) and I’m going to move the new one into its physical space. Currently rez.nuxx.net is located on the top shelf of the rack, and I want to locate it where bornslippy.nuxx.net is, directly over an air conditioning vent.
As soon as it reboots things should be back to normal.
rez.nuxx.net Update
July 31, 2005
Okay, an update on rez.nuxx.net.
In short, it’s done. Everything has been moved there. The only services which remains running on bornslippy.nuxx.net is qmail, set up to collect and forward mail over to rez.nuxx.net for all the domains it used to handle. This is just to ensure speedy mail delivery in case there’s some old, cached DNS entries out there.
Best I can tell, everything is working properly and require no password changes or reconfiguration. All databases (read: forums), websites, and email moved over smoothly.
So, for the most part, all you’ll see is some potential issues reaching the site as DNS flops over, but the TTL is rather short, so this shouldn’t really be noticable.
All in all, I’m content with how it turned out. The new machine is a lot faster. This is evident in Squirrelmail, various forums, and the photo galleries.
So uhm… Yeah. Enjoy. I’m going to head home now. I had to be at work at 6am, and while we finished up just before noon, I decided to stay here and finish the server move instead of waiting to do it until I got home.
DNS Change for nuxx.net
July 29, 2005
Hey everyone, I just flopped ns1.nuxx.net from it’s old home at 216.29.181.213 to it’s new home at 204.11.33.41. There should be nothing that you need to change, but if you are running into any problems accessing any of the sites that I host, please let me know. Thanks!
bornslippy.nuxx.net -> rez.nuxx.net
July 28, 2005
Hey everyone… It looks like I’m going to be installing rez.nuxx.net in the colocation facility tomorrow. I’ll have just under a week to move things over from the current server, bornslippy.nuxx.net.
So, if I host stuff for you, you should pay attention to this. In short, if you have a message board, photo gallery, or anything which ties uses the database (MySQL) there is a good chance that there will be some reconfiguring needed in order to get things back in order. This is because I’m changing around the paths to where data is stored.
Additionally, there is likely to be some downtime while websites, databases, email, and other such things are moved.
I will be going through the sites one at a time in an attempt to ensure that everything is running smoothly. If you find that something isn’t working right, please contact me via AIM or telephone so that we can sort it out.
There should be no loss of data — be it email, web, or in a database — and I’m going to try to make things go as smoothly as possible, but there could be some bumps. So, again, if things arne’t working quite right, please let me know and we can sort it out.
Also, I’ll post updates here as things get moved over. As long as your DNS points to ns1.nuxx.net and ns2.nuxx.net everything should transition smoothly.
So, keep an eye out and hopefully things will be running even better by this time next week.
Bottled!
July 27, 2005
Well, all I seem to post about lately is beer. Thinking about it, for some reason I haven’t been working on much lately besides making beer and my new webserver. Oh, and spending time with
Anyway, the sixth beer, a modified golden ale, has been bottled. Finally. This is the one that I thought was a bit too sweet and thick, so I added an extra yeast to it. Well, that seems to have done the job. I added 125g of corn sugar (in 2 cups of water) to it today and bottled it. Now it’s down in the basement waiting for it to age…
And now I’m going to relax. I feel really tired for some reason. :(
Oh, if you’re curious how the berry ale is coming along, take a look at the following two links. In short, it’s looking rather interesting, and it is clearly continuing to ferment: 1 · 2
Berries!
July 26, 2005
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Well, more progress on the Wheat Berry Ale that I’ve been working on. When I got home after work today it seemed that the fermentation had progressed to the point where I could add the berries. This, however, isn’t quite as simple as dumping them in, because they will ferment more, causing more krausen, and I need to get the beer off of the trub (oil / yeast / hops gunk left in the carboy). So, first I had to first rack (transfer) the beer to a 5 gallon carboy and set it aside. Then I washed and sanitized the inside of the 6.5 gallon carboy, which due to the incredible amounts of gunk inside was no simple task.
Then it was time to take the thawed berries (which had been previously frozen to -15°F and were thusly frozen quite solid) and add them to the carboy. After getting getting the berries into the carboy I then had to simply rack the beer back on to the berries and give it a gentle stir.
After putting the carboy to ferment one could see berry chunks floating in the beer along with a settling layer of a whiteish fluff. This became even more apparent after it sat for a few minutes.
(And that has been another link-er-iffic post, this time made with context-appropriate links instead of bullet points. Oh, and I forgot that I snapped this, and I guess it came out decent: a picture of me from when I was grinding metal to make the power supply bracket for the forthcoming rez.nuxx.net.)
rez.nuxx.net
July 26, 2005
Well, since installing the new power supply on Friday night I’ve taken rez.nuxx.net and wiped it clean and reinstalled the OS. I wanted to be sure that any potential disk corruption was completely gone, so I also completely rebuilt all the arrays.
Last night I reinstalled 5.4-RELEASE, build both world and a new kernel, slightly optimized and targeted to the CPUs. All seems to be running nicely. I’m able to sync the 18GB or so of website data to it with no problems, all seems good.
Tonight I’ll shove it back in the rack to test it headless, and hopefully get a bunch of the other needed things (apache2, mysql, etc) installed and locked down.
This makes me happy… Maybe I will actually get it to the colo around the first of the month. I would shoot for Friday, but I’m hoping to go out of town this weekend, so that wouldn’t be the best idea.
Oh, and remember, if I host you it’s your responsibility to understand when server outages will be. All this gets posted to my LJ… I hope I don’t sound too bitchy, but this is free hosting, and while I shoot for lots of uptime, I don’t guarantee it. I don’t anticipate any problems, but I prefer not to fight with people over what’s essentially a gift of free hosting.
Woah…
July 25, 2005
This is weird. I heard a POP-tinkle-tinkle-tinkle sound over the music, and figured I should go to investigate. I went downstairs and the little red cap had blow off the airlock of the fermenter and it was sitting next to the carboy.
Interestingly, the vodka in the airlock was still pure, and there was only a little yeast stuck in the bottom tube.
I’m thinking what happened was that the base of the airlock clogged, it built up a lot of pressure, and when that raced through the cap popped off the airlock and hit the ceiling, which is what I heard.
I’m just glad I caught it now, instead of tomorrow when it completely clogged, giving the basement a yeast and beer shower.
So, to make a long story short, I switched back to a blowoff hose (note that it’s now clean). I had gone to the airlock from the blowoff tube earlier this evening, as I thought the ferment was slowing down. I guess it wasn’t…
Well, I’ll definitely be leaving this as-is for the next few days.
This yeast really is odd… I’ve never seen any do this. Oh, also, I tasted some of the yeast that got stuck in the airlock, and it’s a really, weird, interesting, trappist-ale flavor with the texture of thin yogurt. Almost like melty frozen yogurt, but sour. Sorta neat…