My setup 20110421 update
12:00 PM on Thursday 21 April 2011
We shifted house and the new place is bigger and gives us a chance to re-organize everything. The main sever has undergone some changes but is largely the same. I have gotten a number of new machines from an auction following the closure of my previous company. With the company closing, they made a ...
Updates to the server 20110421
12:00 PM on Thursday 21 April 2011
It has been a lot time since the last update. The LSI 8408E went south and brought down the entire RAID5. Thank god nothing important was on it. This is the last time I am going the hardware raid route. At least for software RAID, I can get any other controller and re-assemble the RAID5. But for har ...
Poem about Esther
11:42 PM on Saturday 16 April 2011
My Precious Little Pea Princess The best things in life are worth waiting Like Esther my little darling No words could explain the joy When I see Esther play with her toys Oh, my precious little granddaughter, my little pride and joy We had a special bond that nothing could destroy Your little dimpl ...
New casing for the windows machine
12:00 PM on Tuesday 11 August 2009
Managed to get another Coolmaster Stacker casing so I swapped the Windows machine's Coolermaster Elite 330 to this new bigger casing.
My setup 20090809
12:00 PM on Sunday 09 August 2009
The server was running low on storage again. The Nikon D300 taking 10MB a piece RAW photos is really eating up a lot of data storage. I managed to get a second hand LSI 8408E 8 port PCIE SATA RAID card and it works well in Ubuntu. This means that I get up to 8 SATA ports in addition to the 6 provide ...
SSL on the web server (update)
12:00 PM on Friday 29 August 2008
Know how sometimes you feel that you must be the stupidest person on the planet. Happened to me today. Was wondering why the redirect to the SSL protected server was not working outside the home network until I realize that I forgot to forward the port on the router. So it is working now. Ha ha.
SSL on the web server
12:00 PM on Thursday 28 August 2008
Converted the web server to use SSL to encrypt the traffic. The following guides were extremely useful for this: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html The first guide shows how to create a certificate and the second to configure apache f ...
Backups
03:57 AM on Friday 15 August 2008
This page describes my backup strategy. I have a linux machine (fillmore) which I use to store all my data. It has more than 2TB of storage so backing up everything is clearly not going to work and I really hate to use DVDs for backups. I do not really think they are very reliable. To better manage ...
My setup 20080807 update
12:00 PM on Thursday 07 August 2008
It has been a really busy week or two. The disks were filling up (1.7TB) and I wanted to have a RAID setup for the really important stuff. So off I went to get 2 1TB drives. Initially I wanted to get an additional SATA controller to drive the new drives since there was quite a fair bit of space in t ...
My setup 20080614 update
12:00 PM on Saturday 14 June 2008
A lot of the stuff have either been retired or they have failed. The PSC1350 printer has been replaced with a HP Photosmart C6180 which is a network AIO. The C6180 has fax capabilities and it has certainly been very useful. It being networked means that scanned documents can be send to any Windows o ...