Posted on January 12, 2010
Virtualizing and Disaster Testing a Linux Server
Since the mercury has decided to go hiding completely in that tiny little ball it calls home apparently my small but dedicated webserver has decided to freak out and take a small hibernation period itself. I think the NIC is going bad — every few days it would take down my whole network. Pulling the network cable from the router brought everything ELSE back up, and the machine seemed to reboot and work fine once I put the keyboard and head back on, but then, a few days later, same problem.
So, I’ve decided to do away with the older desktop hardware that I keep replacing and re-purposing and move to a virtual machine on my media center PC. That’s the short version — read on for the painfully long version.
Posted on December 8, 2009
Cars, Work, Blogs, and such
Well, my wonderful Subaru WRX with a gadzillion (162k) miles on it blew a head gasket just before Halloween, and I JUST got it back. It’s much happier now, several thousand dollars later. In the mean time I… Read More
Posted on November 15, 2009
More GPS Fun
Well, I managed to get back out on the bike trails again this weekend due to the awesome weather. I’m not saying there won’t be another good weekend this year, but I’m certainly not counting on it. Since… Read More
Posted on October 31, 2009
Winter Projects: No Moving Required
Halloween is just about over, for all useful purposes. I had two visitors… the were twins and they live next door. I managed to make it out Thursday night to the Miamisburg bar hop, which would have been… Read More
Posted on October 23, 2009
Lots of pictures are finally up
I’m about 5000 photos behind in terms of updating my photo gallery, but in the mean time here’s a few interesting tidbits: Laura and Dallas got married, Congratulations guys! Mommalynch took some eight gadzillion pictures, and they’re up… Read More