Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

For sometime, I have thought that it was time to upgrade 'lhaven' to a more modern release of Linux.For the longest time, 'lhaven' has been running RedHat 7.3 (it was 7.2, but then I discovered Fedora Legacy...and they were providing patches for RedH… more »

Last night I wasn't thinking....running into the fact that my boinc-client package is broken on 'box', I thought..."why isn't it running the boinc-client from Lucid?" And, I proceeded to fix it with "apt-get"...and then realized that I'm still running k… more »

A couple of days ago, I got a second stick of 1GB PC3200 DDR memory...and last night I finally got around to upgrading 'box' to 2GB. I had previously throwing a 1GB stick into a geeks.com order to bring 'box' to 1.5GB. Nothing special of note happene… more »

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

Found another problem with my karmic upgrade of 'box'. The clocks on everything were starting to drift....well 'box' is my NTP server. I check the ntp.conf, and it was still correct. Then I realized ntp started while bind wasn't....so it omitted a t… more »

With a couple hours to kill this morning, I decided to see about upgrading 'box' to karmic. Ideally it should've been LTS, but that's another story.... It gave an estimate of one hour to download. Well, it ended up taking those couple of hours. And… more »

I hadn't intended to start upgrading systems to Karmic Koala so soon...since the servers are kind of pegged with other people downloading and upgrading. But, playing around with do-release-upgrade on my Ubuntu server at work....at first (on Thursday) it… more »

Wonder if the people at Xantrex or Amazon.com are wondering what's with all the PowerSource 400s I've been buying? The latest acquisition brings the total to 5. With the latest being the 3rd unit in one room. Somewhere in a past shuffle/outage...I… more »

While at work this morning, I tried to ssh into 'box'....mainly to make it see the changed ssh host keys. But, turned out it was a test to see that it was working correctly.I couldn't get to the second ip on 'box'. All my linux servers have 2 IPs,… more »

I'm can't think any more....don't know what's missing that I didn't intend to leave off.Sure there's stuff that I wouldn't mind having back, and stuff that isn't readily available for the distro I'm using...namely no mondorescue for 9.04 yet. I also… more »

I got the new-ish computer out and started looking at what I could change in it....while digging into it, I discovered it has a SATA drive. So, that meant no moving the old 'box' harddrive into the new 'box' hardware. So, that narrowed the return optio… more »

This morning while I was at home waiting for the building owner to show up to see about some noises inside the wall behind kitchen sink/washer&dryer. UPS showed up with a box from TigerDirect.That should be the off-lease IBM ThinkCenter S51 that… more »