Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.
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Bye-bye .us0
Well, .us0 (Open World’s main hosting colo) is no more. Verizon have, at my request, turned off the power bars. Tomorrow I get to gut .uk1, the main UK colocation which holds internal and extranet servers. I prefer building systems…
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The great OW erase
So today is the first day of the end. I turned off the web servers yesterday (scripted) and today I have to start copying anything the Administrators wanted onto an external disk and then erasing all of Open World’s servers. By Friday everything should be blanked and removed by the chaps that have bought all…
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Core 2 Duo madness
So the day _after_ I buy an Intel Core2Duo for my new home server shit hits the fan and Intel say that maybe actually the chips have, you know, the odd bug. Ah well, I doubt it will affect me in all honestly, but isn’t it just typical. Anyway, upside of above purchase is that…
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Dev box upgrading
Well, since it looks like I’m working from home starting in 2 weeks time I am going to need to replace Whistler and Avoriaz because a) they are noisy, b) they are old and slow, c) they take up to much room and d) they are noisy. I don’t need much umph, I just need…
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Ext disks
I have a need for external storage. Mainly to make ‘backups’ portable *cough*. I also feel the need for more disk on my MacBook so I can install Windows (work means I need to, sadly). So, I was thinking I’d buy an external 160GB 2.5″ drive and swap that disk into my MacBook and put…
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New secondaries
What with OW going bye-bye in 3 weeks, I figured I should remove any OW servers from my domains – things like secondary MX and DNS. I could just use Morgins (colo in Manchester) and Avoriaz (ADSL in my house), but ADSL is not to stable and Avoriaz gets turned off now and then when…
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Administration
My employer has formally gone into administration today. I am being retained and paid. 8 people are being made redundant from the UK now [update its over 13 now], all non-UK staff are out (there lies its own odd legal issue). Not a nice day, I am the one working with the administrators (who themselves…
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Mmm moist
I discovered this weekend why the area in which I now live used to be known as Westbury Marshes. After riding out to Rudge, my sister and I headed down to Clearwood and the south-west along the edge of Blackdog Woods, to the A36 where the bridleway became this… Now it had been rather wet…
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wireless cabling?
I have a router downstairs and a computer that needs access to it upstairs. Could I cable in hub into an AirPort Express upstairs and have it connect to another AirPort express downstairs that connects to the router? I should just stick a wireless card in the upstairs box shouldn’t I, why did I only…
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Moved!
I have moved. Eclipse (my ISP) screwed up the ADSL migration, but thankfully BT managed to switch me early so I am sat on the sofa using my ADSL line Eclipse say won’t be up ’til Monday. So yes, no longer do I have a flat in Bath above a pub, but a house built…
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