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April 12, 2004
nuxx.net Update
April 9, 2004
Just FYI, bornslippy.nuxx.net is back up. I didn’t get a chance to dig around in it much, as I wanted to reboot it and used a ‘ssh root@nuxx.net reboot’ command to make sure it happened right away. With things being as flappy as they were, I wanted the box downed and back up. As of now things are working great again… I guess I’ll just have to continue to monitor it as the day goes.
Maybe it’s time to set up something to alert me if it fails to reply to pings for more than a minute straight or something.
Oh, and this…
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I got the tile cut and stuck down in the vestibule. Thanks to an angle grinder with a diamond wheel and a tile saw, it was nice, even though it was a bit wet and messy. That’s all right, though… It’s done right.
Oh, and this part of my house is officially the ‘vestibule’. It seems that the definition of foyer is more applicable to a large space. Vestibule fits much nicer…
Now I’m just doing laundry. All my laundry. See, part of stripping the floor of the laundry room requires me to soak it down with paint thinner. I’m not going to run a gas dryer in a room full of mineral spirits fumes. Oh, and I also need to tile underneath where the washer, dryer, and laundry tub are, so they have to be moved out of the way regardless.
With any luck I’ll have ceramic tile laid down in the laundry room by Monday night. Whee!
< grumble >
April 9, 2004
Oh, all email and websites hosted off of bornslippy.nuxx.net is down right now. I don’t know what’s wrong… The machine will return pings sporadically, and every once in a while just become available. It’s not a DDOS, and ofdoom, located on the same switch, is just fine. Something wonky… I’ve got a call in with the ISP asking them to reboot the box, so hopefully things will be back up soonish.
And yes, this is the same stuff I was seeing yesterday. I *thought* it was a runaway copy of PHP, but it looks like I’m wrong… The first thing to try? A reboot.
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April 8, 2004
Okay… bornslippy.nuxx.net is having problems. I’m not sure what’s going on yet, but it’ll receive email, you can check email, but I can’t ssh in nor hit it via http. Thus, I have no way of looking at it remotely.
Still digging… Worst case I’ll ask the onsite people to smack the reset button.
UPDATE: It seems that someone is heading into the facility later today and will reset the server for me. Uggh. Hopefully a few hours and it’ll all be back…
UPDATE TWO: Things are back to normal. I *think* that PHP being called by a new version of Gallery that I installed was causing hell. No idea why… I was able to SSH in, though, and things are just fine now. Now I just hope that the person at the colo doesn’t go ahead and reboot the server like he was going to. Eek!
Whee!
April 6, 2004
[Crossposted from
Well, as I’ve done in the past, it’s time for an update with the redoing of the floors in my house.
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April 5, 2004
One other thing… Unless you are an idiot, like me, don’t attempt to screw down two sheets of HardiBacker Ceramic Tile underlayment with a cordless drill. Like me, you will need to ask your dad to run over his corded drill, as it’ll take half the time if you going and picking it up.
I suck. :(
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April 1, 2004
Wow. I feel like I’ve been huffing paint thinner. Well, I kinda have. :) See, I started on removing the sheet vinyl flooring from my kitchen, front vestibule, and laundry room today. The stuff that’s over wood isn’t too bad, but the vinyl on the concrete is a pain. I’ve probably got another 10 – 12 hours worth of work to have the laundry room ready to put the vinyl down. :\
Anyway, if you’d like to see some pictures, click here. Things kinda look weird in the kitchen. I just need to pick out a flooring and order it now. :) Hopefully it’ll be in within a few weeks…
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March 18, 2004
Oh, YES!
The Evolution X-Session
Someone *finally* made a commercially available MIDI controller with a cross fader. I’m glad I didn’t make one of these a few months ago… Now the big choice… This, or a small key-based controller with knobs?
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February 6, 2004
This came across the NANOG mailing list earlier. A really nice history lesson for those interested in networks.
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January 26, 2004
Well, it’s done. I think that the box has been sealed, BIOS settings tweaked, and the base OS set on what will be the new webserver, bornslippy.nuxx.net, is built. Hopefully it’ll go live within the week, but for now, feel free to look at some pictures of it. You’ll actually be accessing the new box itself, as I’ve got it running here at my house, but it’s still on my cable modem. Hopefully it’ll go in on Wednesday or Thursday. I hope. :D
UPDATE: Yeah, I did something dumb and deleted all my websites. I’m replacing them now. I need to pay more attention next time I mess around with rsync. dumb dumb dumb. If the photos aren’t available when you check, try in a few minutes.
UPDATE TWO: All fixed. I upgraded Gallery to a more secure version, too. Yay!