DFW: Day 3

Yesterday was out last day at the DC. We spent most of our time building servers; the ones most of the guys there don’t really like to build :) Still, I didn’t mind. It was really fun stuff! I learned a lot about things I had never thought about while …

DFW: Day 2

Yesterday, we spent a good few hours helping to build a high availability configuration across two cabinets. Pretty fun, if involved stuff. I also got to rekick as Linux server. That was fun, and troubleshooting it was SOO much better than our KVM solution. After that, Daniel and I went …

DFW: Day 1

So this week I and a friend from work are up in Dallas visiting our DFW datacenter. Today was the first day out and the first time I got to see the behemoth. We were lucky enough to get to fly up to DFW and even though it was a …

My first (software) RAID

After about two days I finally got the thing largely up and running. My fileserver lately has been having some stability issues which I finally linked to a bad processor. But during my troubleshooting I noticed that my backup solution basically isn’t one if the server can’t stay up long …

It Lives!

After a $5.00 capkit and about four hours, Tanner and I (well, mostly Tanner) finally got around to fixing the arcade monitor in my Ms. Pac-Man game. Though it looks like some color convergence could be done, the results are pretty dramatic: Before After Taking the beast apart was not …

Wii got a Wii!

I’m sorry, the whole ‘ii’ thing is just too cool not to overuse. While wii have had one for a few weeks now, wii finally got ourselves a Wii. Actually, Corey is the one who was able to get to Target in time to buy it. Turns out, the same …