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.
I’ll probably build a [...]
Interesting.
Some dude owned my boxen. I’m rather amused, actually, given his apparent lack of skill. I haven’t decided if its worth posting logs or not. The attacker failed to do anything particularly interesting.
[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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have successfully completed my SCSI my migration path.
Nebula is running a sweet LSI MegaRAID 466 with two 10K RPM Seagate Cheetah 18GB SCSI disks. Sarah is running a 17GB IBM Ultrastar 7200RPM Wide SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940UW. Faith, my workstation, is running a nice Quantum Atlas 10K RPM 9.2GB SCSI [...]
Here’s a tip. If you’re using KDE’s artsd sound daemon and ALSA, you need to choose Sound System -> Hardware and select a custom sampling rate from KDE’s Control Panel applet. You can choose the appropriate number based on output from dmesg.
intel8×0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49346 usecs
intel8×0: clocking to 48000
For instance, I selected 48000 and [...]
All my boxen are now in a consistent state.
The fileserver is running 4 x 120GB RAID 5 on a 3Ware, 2 x 18GB SCSI RAID 1, and a 30GB ATA disk for temporary storage. I installed the gigabit ethernet card which seems to work. Its now running 2.6.4.
The backup server now has a [...]
It seems Adaptec’s 2940U2W BIOS 2.0 and my K7S5A with BIOS 06/26/2002 don’t play nice. In fact, due to some kind of BIOS bug, no SCSI card I tried worked. I flashed my K7S5A to 10/29/2002, fixing the problem. Or so it seems. Later, I attempt to dual boot Windows 2000 [...]
TrekWeb is moving to a new hosting provider. Since I’m along for the ride, due to DNS changes this site (and my email, sigh) might blip out for a bit.