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New Site Engine

Posted by on November 28, 2006 2 comments

Yep that’s right!
As part of a rationalisation of the servers colo’d in the garage (Yes, trying to cut a) heat load, and b) power bill by dropping servers and heat load..), I decided to move my personal site over onto one of my US colo’d boxes.. While doing that I figured I’d do a revamp, and well, here we are.. GeekLog – quite a cool system… Photo galleries coming sometime this week as well 🙂

Another one bites the dust!

Posted by on November 27, 2006 No comments

Well the VMWare conversion project is working pretty well… – drussi.rendrag.net.au, my main web development server is now running quite happily inside a VM on vmware2 🙂

New servers!

Posted by on November 24, 2006 No comments

Yep, just picked up two second-hand servers I bought on ebay.. They are:
Dell Poweredge 1650 – 1RU, Dual PIII-1.4GHz, 2GB ram, 2x 100Mbps Eth, 3x SCA drive slots. Also bought 72 and 146GB HDD’s in caddies for it. Though I’ll actually put an 18 and maybe a 36 in there… The 72 will nicely upgrade the 36GB Exchange drive in the main work fileserver, and the 146 will either make a nice scratch disk for video editing work, or go back on ebay and pay for itself (i really just wanted the caddy but the guy wouldn’t sell the caddies without the drives…). This will be VMware1.rendrag.net – main eth on workstation (private) network, secondary without IP used for vmware for virtual machines..
Compaq DL380 G3 – 2RU, Dual PIII-1.4GHz, 2GB Ram, 4x Gig Eth, 6x SCA drive slots. Came with two 18GB HDD’s – one 10krpm, the other 15krpm. This will be VMware2.rendrag.net – main eth on workstation (private) network, other eths used one per virtual machine so I can keep using MRTG on my switch ports.. – though we’ll see how many VM’s it ends up with 🙂
Spent quite a bit more than I wa splanning, since those drives weren’t planned (the dell was just going to sit for a month or so till I could find a caddy to put one of my spare 18GB SCA drives into…

AFP Eh?

Posted by on October 26, 2006 No comments

So the other day I was putting a disclaimer on the AFPA’s online store.. Wasn’t quite sure why they wanted such a full-on disclaimer, but hey, ok.. While I was there I noticed they had a leatherman that had everything I needed (aka had hex-driven screwdriver bits..), so I went ahead and ordered one.. Then it arrived:

Cleaaaaning!

Posted by on June 26, 2006 No comments

My God, I’m so bored! First week I haven’t had to work since I left school! Though I ended up pulling *everything* out of the cupboards in the kitchen, disinfecting all the cupboads, washing all the cutlery/crockery/pans/appliances/etc.. And then, since josh had made the comment the other week about not knowing what stuff was actually theirs and what was mine, I sorted everything out so that my stuff is in one set of cupboards, theirs is in another.. Ended up cleaning up the linen closet, and did the same thing.. Well that’s two days out of the way, now what to do with the rest of the week??