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!
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January 24, 2004
Yay! FreeBSD is up and running, without any sort of RAID controller. After buying a 3Ware from eBay and having it need *identical* disks, I thought I was sunk. So, I ran out to Micro3000 (thanks, Erik!) and picked up a Promise FastTrak100 TX2. Turns out that this controller only does on-line swaps and rebuilds when using a special Windows driver. Gah! Oh, and manual, off-line rebuilds take forever. It took about an hour and a half to re-sync the mirror after I intentionally broke it. Ah well.
Anyway, to make a long story short, thanks to the wonderful help I received from
Oh, and yes, Erik, I think I will need to return that controller. It just doesn’t work quite how it says on the box. :\ Ah well. Things are good, for now.
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January 24, 2004
Not. Happy.
This 3Ware Esclade 5000-series controller will only create a mirror from identical disks. Not identical *size* disks, but identical disks. Subversion number and all. So, now I’ve got two Western Digital WD800JB disks that I can’t create a mirror with, because they were made at different times of the year. Quick fix is to buy a new 80GB, but what do I do with the old one then?
Blah.
In good news, the colocation place looks really nice. I think my server will end up there. They pass all the tests: run by a geek who’s been around, been in business for a while, fair number of servers, nice guy, not-RBL’d, well connected, etc.
So, off to fight with the disk controller.
UPDATE: Now FreeBSD 5.2 dumped core when trying to boot in order to install. This might be because I don’t have any arrays defined. I wonder if I have a set of any old disks I can try this with. Hrm.
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January 16, 2004
Well, that’s it. My home file/web server has been shut down. Everything that was on the 80GB disk and the contents of the websites are being copied off. Fairly soon the server will be mostly disassembled, I’ll attempt to do the weird vinum install, then decide if I need the hot-swap RAID stuff.
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January 16, 2004
All, this isn’t all that important, but it looks like I’m going to be moving dingleberrypie.com out of it’s current place and into a full-out colocated server. As part of this, I need to get the server built, configured, secured, etc. So, for a while, dingleberrypie.com will be down. That means no recipes, photo galleries, etc. I’ve also got a bunch of server-moving work ahead of me tonight.
Let’s see… The file/web server will get parted out to become the new colocated server and the file server. The firewall will be moving back to it’s old Gateway 2000 pizza box. Either a second pizza box or the file server will become the new file server, depending on if I can get an external SCSI enclosure or not.
These decisions will come tonight. :D I also need to play with using Depenguinator to set up a vinum-mirrored disk set, per
This should be a really, really interesting trip. But, with any luck, I’ll finally be running my own, legal, publically accessable web/mail server.