I had to sacrifice my nice Matrox G400 as I ran out of spare AGP cards to use. I needed all the available PCI slots. I stuck in a variety of Fast Ethernet cards and an Adaptec 2940U2 with a 4GB Seagate SCSI disk for good measure. The box seems swell. The board had a connector for the SCSI adapter LED, so the hard disk LED on the front panel actually lights up. Nice. I’ve been too lazy to bother configuring the other boxes like this. I don’t have any more of these connector cables. I just need to get a kernel on the box that supports loading root from a SCSI disk and I’m ready to rock. Amusingly enough, all three differently branded Fast Ethernet cards use the RealTek chipset.
04.29.04
04.26.04
I’ve been using Dirvish to handle snapshot backups for more than nine months now. I set things up kind of strange initially, so I finally migrated my directory tree to mirror more what the author of the tool originally intended, I think.
I just ordered a 4 port Linxcel KVM switch and four cables. Hopefully I’ll have that by next week. I’ve been flipping through too many boxes of late not to have an actual KVM switch. I’ll probably sell my 2 port KVM with built-in cables.
04.25.04
I installed my old Dell P3 mainboard in the backup server. Its a bit more responsive now. I’m copying over all the files on the backup array, so I can move to Linux software RAID. A bunch of dumb ATA PCI controllers and software RAID should be fast enough for the backup server. I don’t want to buy another 3Ware card right now. Now I just need to find 3 x 160GB or 3 x 200GB cheap so I can move my 120GB disks into the backup server.
I wrote a tutorial on using tncg finally. But, I’m finding file sharing traffic does not like to be classified by port and tcng is not equipped to deal with that. It also seems to have some issues matching IP packets based on length, which I need to prevent the inclusion of packets with huge payloads in the TCP ACK class.
04.24.04
My Dell ATX to ATX converter arrived, so its time to migrate the backup server to a slightly newer mainboard. Hopefully this will resolve my Gigabit issue and I’ll be able to consistently sustain 16MB/s both to and from the backup server.
04.22.04
[root@trekweb root]# w 15:48:42 up 6 days, 22:52, 2 users, load average: 6.19, 4.72, 2.92 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT jasonb pts/0 adsl-xxx-136-x93 Tue12am 2days 0.07s 0.07s -bash jasonb pts/1 n1×8-xxx-11-x66. 3:10pm 7.00s 0.47s 0.02s sshd: jasonb [p [root@trekweb root]# !ps ps auxw | grep httpd | wc -l 437 [root@trekweb root]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1030960 901816 129144 0 31428 293388 -/+ buffers/cache: 577000 453960 Swap: 2096472 28512 2067960 [root@trekweb root]# ps auxw | grep httpd | wc -l 374
[jasonboxatwork] heh [jasonboxatwork] can anyone think of any cool hardware to buy? [jasonboxatwork] I ran out of stuff to buy [sirreal] LCD screen? [benit] no [sirreal] digital projector? [eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: you can get me a scsi HD [eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: then a raid array [eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: then an e server [sirreal] or you could buy my love. i don't see EruditeHermit with a donate page ;P [sirreal] i made it just for you; i'd be heartbroken if you never used it :) [jasonboxatwork] LOL [jasonboxatwork] lmfao [jasonboxatwork] roflmfao
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modsecurity for Apache was discussed. I should probably deploy this on TrekWeb as it is sorely needed.
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04.19.04
There’s just not much excuse for this, from SunHELP mailing list:
04.18.04
On Monday I should be receiving my standard ATX to Dell ATX converter. Then I can upgrade the backup server with my old Dell mainboard. The current board seems too slow for handling GbE, even over FTP which has essentially no overhead. The new mainboard should resolve the issue.
04.17.04
Interesting.
04.15.04
[jasonboxatwork] laff [jasonboxatwork] this one gets Google search award of the month: [jasonboxatwork] "debian initrd cramfs annoying" [jasonboxatwork] lol [fabianx] JasonBoxatWork: lol [jasonboxatwork] The actual keywords to find my mkinitrd article [jasonboxatwork] ;) [fabianx] JasonBoxatWork: You can use ext2fs also ... [jasonboxatwork] Yeah, I covered that too ;)
Nice to see my pages are providing some value to the world and laughter on IRC.
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Yesterday I took a field trip to the DCP server room. While it only has two racks, they’re stuffed full with cool toys like fibre channel network cards, Cisco switches, and huge dozen drive SCA SCSI-3 drives. Hardware is so sexy. Its a shame rackmount hardware is so noisy. I wouldn’t mind having a rack in my house. I’m pretty happy with my AOpen H700A cases though.
04.13.04
These losers keep harassing me over the phone. Tonight is the second time in a week these llamahs have tried to convince me that I should support for-profit radio stations and Arbitron’s bottom line by participating in their radio survey of the south east for a “small token gift”. My time’s worth more than a doughnut or a cup of coffee. I haven’t listened to the radio seriously in more than five years, since Clear Channel bought out XL 106.7 in Orlando and started playing crap. Arbitron can feel free to share some of its profits with me in exchange for my services, say, a cheque for $500, or they can sod off.
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