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Archive for September, 2005

Over 1 year of uptime

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

This is the webserver you’re reading from:
$ uptime
5:31AM up 366 days, 12:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.45, 0.41, 0.50

This server does about 10 websites, and about 45GB a month, and does mail for about 15 domains.

Dan does Utah!

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

I’m heading off to Utah at the end of the month. The primary goal is to do some mountain biking in Moab. I’ve been there before but it’s time to go back again.
As part of my trip preparation, I contacted the Greater Utah BSD User Group (aka GUBUG. Wouldn’t you know it! […]

New box - addenda

Monday, September 5th, 2005

That computer I mentioned recently, I added a SCSI card to it and enabled the second NIC. It’s now looking pretty sweet with 5.4 running on it. With the new additions, the dmesg now also contains:
isp0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff6fe000-0xff6fefff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci2

I plan to make this box […]

New box

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

I got a really sweet deal on a computer:

Dell Optiplex GX-260
CPU 2.4 GHz
HDD 20 GB
RAM 512 MB
CD ROM Re-Writable
NIC 3COM
internal speakers
build-in sound card
Windows XP
MS-Office XP

Yes, that INCLUDES the original CDs for that software, still shrink wrapped! That alone is worth the CAD$150 price.
I’ve removed the HDD, put it aside, and replaced it with an […]