Archive for the 'fear' Category

August 12th, 2007

Hard drive not found

I took a vacation day on Friday, and it was good I did because Thursday night after work I tried to authenticate my xbox to my storage array and it just kept failing.
I go to check on the domain controller and get no response via the network.  Shit.  I go downstairs to the server rack [...]

September 18th, 2006

Bookmark Sync

after steve kept talking about how great google browser sync was, I decided to install it and try it out for syncing my bookmarks between my laptop and my desktop
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – [...]

April 13th, 2006

downtime

09:21:29 ~ # uptime
9:21PM up 134 days, 22:53, 2 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.38, 0.43
If you can read this, it means tinfoilsoldier.com is already back up from power upgrades
Apparently I broke PHP, so I had to rebuild it, and ap-php and php-mysql
but now everything should be back up and running 

March 3rd, 2006

updates

So… Tuesday i got super drunk
yay Captain Morgans Spiced Rum, and Smirknoff Citrus
wednesday i was tired as hell @ work
thursday
Spent all day messing with samba on my raid server, it was broke for most of the day, and i thought i barely got it working last night, but apparently I got it to fully integrate [...]

October 4th, 2005

broked

my desktop computer’s motherboard decided to die, so right now i have my old laptop hooked to my monitor/keyboard/mouse
if i can find another powersupply for my new laptop i will hook up its docking station, because my old laptop is only 600Mhz, and while thats fine for my servers, its hella slow to do other [...]