My SuperMicro 370DLE seems stable with the 2.6.4 kernel. I am pleased.

Finally, a feature I have been waiting for for years. KMail 1.7 has systray notification for new mail! Yay! Hooray!

I thought I’d add my laptop to my KVM rotation, but it only has a couple of USB ports. I picked up a USB to 2 x PS2 adapter for it on Ebay. My 16MB CF card isn’t quite big enough for my Canon PowerShot A60, so I picked up a 256MB CF card from ZipZoomFly for around $16 after rebate. Shipping was free. I haven’t bought anything from them before, but I have heard good things so far. Since my typical image size per photo is around 500KB, 256MB ought to get me around 500 photos before I need to download off the camera. That’ll sure beat removing the 16MB CF and cleaning it every few photos.

I started to experience strange and unpredictable delays in HTTP traffic. At first, I thought it might be DNS or my specific box. After messing around on another box, it appeared to be a network wide issue that needed to be resolved. ping kept complaining about sendto: errors.

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It died again. Looks like I lost the board. Sigh.

I finally joined the modern world with a dual monitor setup. Amusingly enough, I have an ATI AGP card and for the second monitor I’m using an Nvidia card. I thought about buying a dual head card, but it’s not really necessary. I find this setup works quite well, and I have plenty of video cards to spare.

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I recompiled 2.6.8.1 with the option Enable kernel irq balancing disabled and so far the kernel has not Oops’d. I still get quite a few of these, though.

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It seems Mldonkey has always been the unfortunate process to trigger this, so far. It happens with 2.6.7 and 2.6.8.1 so far. It seems likely to be a hardware issue. A partial memtest86 run has revealed nothing so far. Next I am going to try reseating the CPUs and RAM, since it appears to have been dropped during shipping to me. (The HSFs had fallen off the CPUs.) Next, I’ll try each CPU by itself with an UP kernel. Finally, I’ll remove the board and try running it on an electrostatic bag. It would be quite helpful if I could find something less intensive to trigger the Oops, though, since the latter most test might not be possible since connecting all the cards to their hard disks will be quite a stretch with the mainboard out of the case.

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Gosh, I grow bored with this.

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It seems to be that time again. I need to unload a 400W PSU, Athlon 1700 XP+, L7S7A2 mainboard, 4 port PCI USB card, PCI AC97 sound card, NVidia Geforce4 440MX SE AGP card, Toshiba Cable modem, and a Linksys Gigabit Ethernet PCI card. I might sell my 3Ware 7410 and replace it with a 7506-4LP, if I ever see any on Ebay.

Living through Frances was a very different experience than Charley, a more rapidly moving storm. Frances was quite slow, and took her sweet time moving across the state. It took more than 48 hours for the storm to entirely transverse the entire state. In Mt. Dora, the wind and rain started sometime Friday night. The power failed early Saturday morning and had not yet been restored when I left Mt. Dora on Monday afternoon. It was windy for nearly two full days, and during the first night many trees fell down. The yard outside was a wasteland of fallen trees Saturday morning. Rain seemed perpetual.

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The hurricane seems to have essentially stalled out in the Atlantic, weakening to a category two hurricane. It looks like it will be a tropical storm by the time it actually arrives at Gainesville.

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Apparently it’s stalled out now. More fun hurricane path links. There is going to be a curfew on Saturday and Sunday from 9pm until 6am in Orange county. The fun never ends around here. Last night for a 100 mile stretch of I-75 and the Florida Turnpike, traffic north bound was bumper to bumper for the full hour I drove south bound to Orlando. The traffic was continuous into the evening and the Turnpike was nearly a parking lot even at 1am this morning. Quite a strange and unnerving sight.

It looks like my preexisting plans have been moved up a day due to the hurricane. It seems I’ll be turning off all my boxen and exiting the area early this evening. Just need to remember my Knoppix CD and I should be all set, methinks.

I finally put up and bought a decent server mainboard. Entry level a few years ago, it’s still a slick setup for a small home network. I fired off a few compiles of Linux 2.4.23 to see what my compile times are:

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