Daily Archives: March 27, 2006

Images from a Morning Walk

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Images from a Morning Walk

Originally uploaded by S.D..

I was passing by on my way to work when she poured water on the sidewalk to clean it. When she saw me, she was nice enough to smile for the photo. From my Camera, she thought I was a professional! At the Elephant Parade, Semyon pointed out that as long as your lens has a Lens Hood, people will think your a Pro.

Posted from Flickr.
Still needs work. I wonder If I need to modify the CGI program to have a default Catagory when being hit from Flickr?


Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Brother where you bound" by Supertramp from the "Brother where you bound" Album.

 

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Fault Tolerant Servers

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Words you never want to see on a Server console:

Hit F1 to Rebuild Drive

Needless to say, I was a little Worried. The Proliant is an Odd and quirky server to set up. The 256 megs of RAM in it do not have a sequential addressing scheme. For the Non technical: It has big gaps in it's memory. To get Linux to "see" the memory properly, you have to map the memory segments in grub.conf or Linux will think you have 640K only and will just not install. 

Aside from this, the server  is a Pentium Pro with Old SCSI drives that are one big sequential volume. I've set it up and forgot about how I did that exactly. Being a bit of a chicken, I did NOT hit F1, backed up the server and then rebooted and hit F1. It came up perfectly and near as I can tell, the files are intact. RAID is a beautiful thing.

BTW, I know the Proliant 5000 is an old  server with "old" technology, but that's exactly why I'm using it. Linux has a small footprint so it doesn't need a "Kick Ass" server to run nicely. To make life more fun, Compaq SCSI drives are more reliable than IDE with a lower MTBF.


Music I'm listening to right Now:
"On her Mind" by Duncan Sheik from his "Daylight" Album.

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