September 7, 2010
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Shutdown vmQmail and vmISP since both have had replacement servers online now for just about a year now. If there are no issues for the next 2 days, they'll stay down permanently.
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Shutdown vmQmail and vmISP since both have had replacement servers online now for just about a year now. If there are no issues for the next 2 days, they'll stay down permanently.
August 26, 2010
Thursday, August 26th, 2010A rather annoying thing as of late, was fixed tonite. My FreeNAS server, which makes a great nas device - has a share mounted on my private webserver to enable access to some key files for me. This webserver is a Fedora Core 8 server, and uses the ...
August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Following up on recent changes, I started to move some laptops around now. The dv9207us will now be my first floor laptop. The dv9008nr that was in that role is now being ghosted, and will be rebuilt as a win7 machine since I don't yet have one of ...
August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Swapped motherboards on my HP DV9207us tonite. It has worked in safe mode only, and ONLY if you could put up with an insanely flickering screen. The video chip was going bad - and wasnt totally dead yet, but it was headache city trying to use it. ...
August 23, 2010
Monday, August 23rd, 2010Been having problems with wireless lately. Time to fire up the analyzer again and see which one is walking all over the others. But short term fix was to put a trusty WRT300n from eBay into place. These have fantastic range and signal strength, and I've been ...
August 21, 2010
Saturday, August 21st, 2010Completed the migration of my vm380num2 DL380G1 OpenSuSE 10.2 server to a virtual host tonite. Sadly, I couldn't get the converter to do the work for me like I wanted. I had to basically do the main disk/filesystem, and then create one big filesystem as a secondary disk. ...
August 20, 2010
Friday, August 20th, 2010Did a few virtual tasks : some work configuring resource allocation for my vm's tonite, so that nothing can "run away" with all the resources anymore. some work in trying to convert my old dl380g1 suse10 big brother server to a virtual machine, so that I could shutdown another server, saving power ...
August 15, 2010
Sunday, August 15th, 2010More for my own notes on what happened when, one my families dv9008nr laptops died this week. Well, more accurately, the wireless stopped working, and thats a sign of motherboard failure looming. So for now, I took the drive from the bad dv9008nr, put it in my dv9008nr, ...
August 11, 2010
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010I've been trying to get the last of my "old" virtual machines migrated off of my old VMWare Server 1.0.1 host to an updated VMWare server. But its just been a lower priority. Recently, it started complaining about some hardware issues, so it was time. So this ...
August 8, 2010
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Upgraded one of my core virtual servers from a 2.4Ghz DL380G3 to a 3.06Ghz DL380G3 and migrated all vm's over to the new server. Hopefully this brings some additional perfomance boost for some of the lagging vm's lately. Also finally got a vm setup for my sockso server. The ...
July 25, 2010
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Finally decided to fix the order of my apache directory listings because I was frustrated by the case of the first letter affecting the listing order, and people not knowing how to use a "unix sort" listing. To fix it, the following line was added in the httpd.conf file, ...
July 9, 2010
Friday, July 9th, 2010Finally replaced the now dead WRT55ag which died on me about 3 nights ago. I tried to resurrect it, but it really wont even power on. It can either be the power supply, or the unit - but no point in trying to save a 5 year old ...
July 8, 2010
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Well, I dont need to tell anyone about the heat wave we're having, but its starting to cost me now. My smoke alarm in the attic melted and caused all the others to off insanely loud - so that was no fun. My "Hard Rockin" music server overheated ...
June 26, 2010
Saturday, June 26th, 2010Had a Comcast Internet outage today, for a little over 2.5 hours. It was down from 07:18:19 to 09:52:46 but at this point its back up.
June 14, 2010
Monday, June 14th, 2010Doing a bit of DNS work tonite, and while looking for a better name server, came across Google's public dns server which is awesome. See more about it here.
May 25, 2010
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Updated my sockso server from 1.2.0 to 1.2.4 tonite. Its supposed to be more efficient, and more stable. Has new scheduling features too but I'm not using those yet.
May 21, 2010
Friday, May 21st, 2010Had some problems with my firewall today and yesterday .. and the day before. Its been running really really heavy, and thats not at all normal. I saw some odd behavior. It started on the 18th, and peaked on the 20th. In the end, ...
May 20, 2010
Thursday, May 20th, 2010Had a power hit tonite : May 20 23:01:47 vm380num2 hpasmd[3741]: NOTICE: hpasmd: System Power Supply: General Failure (Power Supply 1) has been repaired May 20 23:01:47 vm380num2 hpasmd[3741]: NOTICE: hpasmd: System Power Supplies Not Redundant has been repaired ... but the nice new UPS's that a friend got me, really pulled through ...
May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Just completed the repair of my FreeNas box. Turns out that the drive reporting all the S.M.A.R.T. errors may not have been bad after all. There were hardware issues on that AthlonXP 1.8Ghz server. So I ended up pulling the drive, and fitting it into an ...
May 12, 2010
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Had some problems with the 120Gb drive in my FreeNAS server over the last few days. So tonite, I copied all the data from that share onto my "mirrored share" partition. The ZFS 120Gb partition was my original "test" partition anyway - even though I did end up ...