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As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]

The hard disc in my main PC has failed and I can’t access it at all. This is the second disk to fail in that PC this year and brings my total number of failed disks to four! Incidentially they are all Seagates. Two are PATA and the two that were in my main workstation [...]

I’ve been on and on about using Squid as a reverse proxy that at times it must seem that I’m bordering on being completely obsessed with it. Well I suppose that is partly true. The performance boost that it can deliver is staggering and to get an idea of how well it performs look no further [...]

Due to having copious amounts of time since being being made redundant I’ve been trying to keep busy as best I can. Of course Lucas keeps me busy at times but I also need to feed my inner geek. So for the past couple of days I’ve made a cantenna and have been busy circling [...]

Anyone reading my other blog will know the problems that I was having with a PC here. The PC in question is an Optiplex GX 620 and at one stage I considered it to be possessed. Now I really think that it is. (Possessed that is.) It was randomly rebooting on me even if it [...]

The first ethernet switch has arrived on the international space station. They now have their own fully functioning network on board. No wireless for them. The reason I’m mentioning this is that the switch that they chose was none other than the very same that dished out this page that you are reading now. You [...]

The fans in ones servers step up a few gears. It’s getting a bit loud in here and I can barely hear myself think. Of course it’s getting quite warm in here too. I think it is time to consider relocating my servers to a nice cool empty closet.

Back in the first week of May I wrote that I was getting an error from one of the disks from the RAID array on my main workstation. Well it has finally died on me. I configured them in a RAID 0 array for a boost in performance and one of them has just given [...]