Long time coming…
they.com is now running on new hardware!
There was a happy congruence of tax refund check and Dell having a sale of 45% off servers, so the 8+ year old system (a sun netra t1 with a 900MHz ultrasparc IIi, 1G RAM and an external 30G drive) has been replaced (by a poweredge 2750, with 2 2GHz AMD processors, 8G RAM, and 6 160G drives with hardware RAID). After running for 7 hours, the new system has yet to swap memory to disk!
They have also made the switch from Debian GNU/Linux to Gentoo.
There will still be a few things to work out — for example, they have not decided whether or not to re-export the /docs/ directory (which they don’t think they will do again), and some wordpress upgrading differences have yet to be fully resolved. Also the installation of gallery2 seems to not want to display .3gp videos, so they need to figure out how to hack that back in again.
For now, though, they are just glad to have made the switch, because they can now re-enable spam filtering on the server, and now have virtual mail delivery (so that there are fewer hackable login accounts).
Oh, and since it doesn’t take over a minute to make a post on wordpress anymore, you can expect more frequent posting!
Here is the new server last weekend, while they copied over the gallery images to save bandwidth:
An open letter to the lady driving to work, swerving madly while putting on makeup.
They think they know why you were having such trouble:
You did not wait for the first coat to dry before applying the second coat.
2blog folder catchup
As usual, we begin with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | Sometimes We Even Have Sex
- Overheard in New York | Upon Hearing This, Several New Yorkers Burst into Flames
- Overheard in New York | How to Get Some Personal Space on a Crowded Train
- Overheard in the Office | That’s Usually More of a Minor, but She’s Really Motivated
- Overheard in the Office | The CEO Didn’t Realize the Gravity of Mr. Cheney’s Warning Until It Was Too Late
- Overheard Everywhere | Don’t They Have, Like, a Three-Day Lifespan Anyway?
Political things (since I did, in fact, caucus last night):
- News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES | Obama rally draws thousands downtown Friday
- Daily Kos: I Refuse to Buy into the Obama Hype (now a supporter)
- John Cleese’s “Letter to America†« Things Are Looking Up…
- Elections Department
Geeky things:
- Slashdot | Obsolete Technical Skills
- Slashdot | Chroot in OpenSSH
- NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse
- Greatest technological challenges facing humanity | Science | guardian.co.uk
- Don’t Shut Off Vista UAC, There’s A Better Way - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
- How To Change Windows’ Logon Screensaver ~ Windows Fanatics
- Media Direct Button(other uses) - Page 4 - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion
Feature: Use Your Wii as a Media Center - Humor: How Grandma Sees The Remote
- SourceForge.net: ubuntuzilla » home
- Feature: Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop
- 9 (More) Useful Websites You Should Know About, But Probably Don’t
- Table Manner Tips Every Guy Should Know
And some funny stuff:
