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More Power Issues!!!


Another electrical fault at Greenwood! This time it was a dead short in the bathroom power point. Thanks to my sparky mates we are back up and running. Downtime this outage was a day and a bit. T

Power issues again!


Thanks to Western Power I once again lost power at the location of the Greenwood server. This time Western Power replaced some cable in the street or similar resulting in no power for a few hours. Thanks to the redundant systems of DarkNet the server didn’t fail. T

Gutsy to Hardy


Greenwood server was upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy today. Other than a minor issue with mysql using 99% CPU no other issues where encounted. Once I return home we’ll do a kernel upgrade and hope for the best. T

Power memory and vmware


G’day All, Yesterday we had a brief outage to services on the Greenwood Server. I’ve been having power stability issues for some time so finally got a sparky onsite who replaced some wiring. I was also made aware of the fact that rebooting the server cleared a lot of memory. As such I have blown [...]

The Raid saga continues


The Scenario: Current linux box at my personal residence has two mirrored raid arrays using linux software raid. Running ontop of that I’m using LVM to strip. The effect is a raid1+0 array. The Problem: On the first sunday of every month a script runs: #6 1 * * 0 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] [...]

Projects on the boil!


Hello everybody, I’m currently working on the following projects: * Make layer7-filter work (filter bit torrent etc) * Compare ext3, ext2, XFS and Reiserfs * putting an upgrade plan together to migrade from sarge to stable debian * Migrate client email onto colo * Migrate client webpages onto colo * Make tomizone work on linksys [...]