I can’t think of any sane reason to reverse proxy Trac when you can serve it up under Apache over SSL, except when you can’t. I backported the latest version of Trac, 0.10.2, to Debian Sarge. The process was quite painful, but the result won’t run under mod_python without some additional backporting, though [...]
For years, I’ve been putting off locating some kind of catalog system for my VHS cassettes. As the years passed, DVD has become pretty ubiquitous. Meanwhile, I still had not adopted a catalog system and the problem of what I have locally available remains. Finally, I decided to search the usual places, [...]
The Web site Matt’s Computer Trends has followed the price per GB for hard disks dating back to 1995 and generated some interesting graphs and discussion. Though I rarely link elsewhere, I found this article particularly interesting given my recent spat of purchasing several large ATA drives.
I hadn’t given it much thought until recently, [...]
Prelude.
Inevitably, computer systems fail. When that happens, it is often valuable to take a step back and evaluate the failure scenario and the recovery or response plan. A critical analysis offers one the opportunity to review what was and was not effective in avoiding, detecting, diagnosing, and recovering from a failed system, be [...]
It seems my Toshiba 20GB 2.5″ (second failure) and my Seagate 300GB 3.5″ failed within the span of two weeks. Toshiba’s RMA policy is far better than Seagates, even if Seagate offers an additional two years of warranty. A five year warranty is somewhat diminished if you have to pay for an expedient [...]
I’ve had some moments of late, so I thought I’d finally reorganize all music files. Everything’s in MP3 format, since that is all that plays on my Sony S2. However, nearly to the last file the MP3 ID3 tags are incomplete or simply missing. Years of poor ripping seems to have taken [...]
For a long while I had an extra partition on my Windows laptop, a second primary partition, that I had formatted as FAT32. I used it for my Knoppix /home image and whatnot.
Of late, I thought it would be useful to install Debian Sarge natively, so I set out to do exactly that. [...]
I thought I’d swap over to my 3Ware Escalade 6200 and run 40GBG x 2 in RAID 1, but it was not to be. After migrating all my files over from my Quantum Atlas 10K2 9.2 GB SCSI disk and my /home from my single 40GB ATA disk, I started experiencing filesystem errors rather [...]
I finally upgraded to WordPress 1.5.2.
Then, I upgraded to the latest Gallery2 release candidate, RC2, locally. As usual, a bunch of files changed, so I used rsync to neatly clean up any files that had been removed. I am still not sure why the G2 upgrade process merely warns you some files have [...]
Yep, it looks like my replacement Toshiba laptop hard disk from February is failing. It’s doing the same song and dance. It’s making some rather disturbing noises. I suspect within two weeks, like the previous hard disk, this one will simply stop spinning up. No disk I/O errors, yet, but they’ll [...]