Tin Foil Soldier

Okay dammit, not sure what is hanging Apache up, its fully patched, as is MySQL, PHP, wordpress, everything.  Something connects to the server and the computer just can’t handle it and locks up until I do a hard reset.  Fortunately the server boots fine from this since I futzed with the software raid a while [...]

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Can’t you just be satisfied that if I’m wrong about God that I’ll burn in hell?
via “Bones” The Priest in the Churchyard (2007) – Memorable quotes.
I made this post as a draft back in September but I just found it when I upgraded Wordpress.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the crazy right wing [...]

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Apache Hung.
still not sure what happens, but the server sends tons of DNS requests out while it is happening (I can see that much from the Cisco FWSM)
Apache doesn’t have HostnameLookups turned on, I already checked.

not sure what happened, but Apache seems to have been hung, and it had the whole server tied up as it did its thing (or rather, didn’t do its thing)

So, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8 yesterday, which went fine thanks to my script.
Then the Wordpress Stats plugin wanted to be upgraded.  Only problem is it only comes as a zip file and I haven’t had to unzip anything since I had to reinstall tinfoil.
Emerge -pv zip unzip
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/zip-2.32-r1  USE=”crypt” 789 kB
[ebuild  [...]

I had gotten everything else back up and running, but I wasn’t getting the favicon on my tabs in Firefox and I was like, what the hell could be broken?
Turns out I just had Firefox open for too long, I never close it.  It had 340MB of ram when I finally restarted it.  Probably had [...]

Tin Foil Soldier is back in business lol.
I guess the OS hard drive in the server died.  Tinfoilsoldier runs on a Dell Powervault 715n that doesn’t have a keyboard/mouse/monitor port or a cd-rom drive, its a 1U headless server.  It can be netbooted but that takes effort to install a linux OS so I just [...]

The Tin Foil Soldier server has been up for 255 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes, 6 seconds and is proudly powered by WordPress
Right now I am updating the system again, I don’t wanna reboot because it never comes back up right, but I will have a new world soon.
emerge -v world –update

So apparently I hit 1500 posts on this here blog about 8 posts ago.  I knew it was coming up and wanted to write something about it for the 1500th post, but instead a post about my efficiency takes the honors as being my 1500th tidbit that I felt the need to share with the [...]

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I know its against “best practices” but I have file level and database backups already [...]

I am going to attempt to upgrade the kernel again. In fact, you probably wont be able to read this if it doesn’t work right.
Edit:
I think I need to completely recompile the kernel, so thats chugging away now.

I was trying to upgrade the kernel last night, and when tinfoil went down for the reboot it didn’t come back.
Well, I have been working on it for a while, but last night I decided to try to reboot.
Yeah, it didn’t come back.  When I got to the server this morning, i consoled in and [...]

WordPress › Support » I don’t like the way 2.5 is going
Lets see:
1. All this space and HUGE fonts.
Please ask your designer to use a 1200x or 1400x res monitor
2. “Write” – do we really need ~280 px of vertical space before the Title field?
3. Write – > “Post” please move “Categories” to right [...]

Oops
I blocked DHCP traffic with a firewall ruleset and eventually the server’s lease expired.
Tinfoilsoldier is back up!

#5284 (Editing & Posting Comments Causes Errors) – WordPress Trac – Trac
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ’sanitize_url’
I had the same error when posting a comment, and bbbburns had it when trying to view my RSS feeds.  Apparently I had an incomplete upgrade for my formatting.php file in wp-includes.  [...]