My wife called me at work the other day to report she couldn’t get on the wireless network at home and that there was a loud whining coming from the computer closet. It turned out the UPS (an APC BX800 I bought in 2004) had bit the dust and all of the equipment (server, router, …
What is it with me and hard drive crashes lately? First the drive in my Linux server dies, then this past Sunday the stock 250gb drive in my TiVo Series3 went bad. The crash first manifested when the TiVo froze with a pinkish tinted picture on the TV. This has happened occasionally in the past, …
Steve Job’s recent announcement of the new iPad (really?) coincided closely with the two month anniversary of my getting an iPhone. So how have the past 8 weeks or so been? I’m definitely better at typing on the virtual keyboard. I’m nowhere near as fast (or accurate) as I was on the Treo’s physical keyboard, but I can …
After a few evenings’ work, I’ve recovered from The Crash and have my server back up and running! The problem started last week on Thursday when I found the server was not responding to pings, none of the services were available, and the fans were cranking at 100%. The server is headless, so I hooked up a monitor to see if …
The hard drive in my server crashed! I’ve been having problems over the past few days where Ubuntu was just locked up and the server was unpingable. I’m trying to make a backup image of the drive before it completely dies, but for now I’ve got some of the site back up and running with …
Today we had my daughter’s birthday party (with three other birthday kids from her class) at the Xtreme Fun Center for laser tag and video games. Wow, laser tag is awesome! My sister and I owned a pair of Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag pistols and sensors when we were kids and used to run …
After over 13 years of using (mostly) PalmOS and (some) Windows Mobile devices as my PDA and/or cell phone, I now own my first device that runs … OS X. Yep, I got an iPhone. We’re in the early stages of testing the iPhone with our corporate e-mail infrastructure: Microsoft Exchange and GoodLink. Since my AT&T account has been upgrade-eligible for some time (the …
Last week, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was officially released so over this past weekend I went ahead and upgraded my server to the new version. As with my prior upgrades, I ran the process remotely over SSH (my server is a headless box sitting in a closet) and it was very smooth. The only minor …
Jolicloud just wasn’t cutting it for me, so now that the beta of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released, I’ve put it on my EeePC 4G Surf (the fourth distro I’ve run on that netbook this year). Ooooo, pretty: I haven’t had a lot of time to play/tweak, but so far all the important …
I’ve been using the release candidate of Windows 7 at home for the past few months but now we’ve started testing Windows 7 at work. This past week I “upgraded” my laptop and desktop at the office to the RTM version of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Actually, both were clean installs since they were previously …