Archive for July, 2007

July 31, 2007

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Well, the sharity worked out to by sh__ity instead. It cant seem to keep up with the i/o rate needed. In essence, I needed it for my Audiotron table-of-contents creator script. But that walks the NAS share (7000+ songs) and it worked great when it was NFS shared from a ...

July 28, 2007

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Over the course of the last three days (of course its always three days ....), I have been converting my satellite host (Damn Small Linux on a Toshiba Satellite, AMD 366Mhz) storage over to a Lacie 1Tb Ethernet Big Disk NAS box. First went all the music, then the movies, ...

July 18, 2007

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Decided to pull the trigger on the BigBrother conversion today - and migrated away from my 7 year trusty AIX 43P big brother server ... now it runs Suse10.2 on a Compaq DL380 (G1) with dual 733Mhz processors and a gig of ram , which much more storage space, and ...

July 17, 2007

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Completed 90% of the datacenter consolidation tonite. At this point, there have been about a dozen machines that have been consolidated or retired. 3 are still yet to be physically removed, but tonite I moved the openSUSE10.2 host that replaced Castor, into the datacenter. I removed 5 old disk arrays ...

July 04, 2007

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Got fed up with an older iPod mini (4Gb) that wouldnt last more that 15 minutes on battery anymore. There are links to buy battery replacement kits, and I will try that if this doesnt last - but this repair process seemed good enough to share. I executed it and ...