August 01, 2004
Instead of blogging about San Diego....
I'll blog about computer problems! So I got home from San Diego on Monday, heading back into a hectic work week. Sometime mid-week the server that had been running this site and a couple of other sites started making a clicking noise.
That's never good.
It sounded like the hard drive in the machine was on it's last legs. I removed the machine from it's closet home (in my bedroom), opened her up, dusted it out and moved it to my office. It ran for about a day, then seized up again. Nothing. She was kaput, dead as a doornail.
So on Saturday we combed Orlando ("Comb the desert!"), for an inexpensive machine I can throw Redhat on and rebuild into a bigger, better webserver. We found one at the Computer Builders Warehouse near my work, a barebones unit, that we just had to throw a hard drive and cd-rom into. And that's what is serving these pages right now. Hooray for linux!
I'll get to writing about San Diego soon...I swear!
Posted by bkirsten at August 1, 2004 04:03 PM | |