Category Archives: System Administration
Bad Hardware Day
The site seems to be running nicely on the old server in the cellar. I’m sure browsing photos isn’t a terribly fast experience any more, but until I can find a reasonably priced hosting provider I can trust, this is … Continue reading
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Gallery Restored
Our photo gallery is back on-line. I was able to bring it back much more quickly than I had first anticipated, because I used an old Gallery 1.x back-up to seed the albums in the Gallery 2.x installation. That copied … Continue reading
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Pain And Suffering
Much of the last 24 hours has been spent seizing those rare moments during which my server — migrated through no desire of mine to Web Host Plus — is up and on the network, and using them to perform … Continue reading
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Wankers
Yes: wankers. Wankers! WANKERS! WANKERS! __WANKERS!__ Who am I talking about? Managed.com, of course, the company to which I give good money each month to host this site. What happened? Well, managed.com decided to move its network from California to … Continue reading
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Miff TV
I went back to troubleshooting my expensive box of dysfunctional hardware today, but I actually couldn’t test any further. The next thing to check was the power supply, but I didn’t have a spare ATX unit to pop in. Sadly, … Continue reading
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