Monthly Archives: September 2004

Frances Stuff

9/8/2004 – 2:34 pm

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 [...]

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Most Excellent Frances News

9/3/2004 – 9:00 pm

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.
My boxen might yet be safe!

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More Hurricane Frances Stuff

9/3/2004 – 3:11 pm

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 [...]

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Orlando a Day Earlier it Seems

9/2/2004 – 3:18 pm

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.

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Dual Pentium III Coppermine SuperMicro 370DLE fun

9/2/2004 – 2:28 pm

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:

time echo “make dep && make -j1 && make -j1 modules” | [...]

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Alachua County’s Emergency Management Storm Watch

9/2/2004 – 2:16 pm

I have found so far one of the best Web sites for information on the hurricane specific to my region is Alachua County’s Emergency Management Web site. All hurricane track prediction methodologies indicate the hurricane is near certain to strike the state. It appears to be coming, ready or not. I have [...]

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Hurricane Frances, Three Days Out

9/1/2004 – 4:27 pm

Okay, this is starting to feel like the Tropical Update Blog or something. It appears that hurricane Frances is on a collision course with the state of Florida. I think we just played this one a few weeks ago, no? This time the hurricane stands to drive straight up the whole state. [...]

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