Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

After having had some time to lick my wounds from trying to upgrade 'lhaven'. I decided to take the plunge and try again. So, I went back on to eBay....and bought another 1GB stick of memory, from the same seller as before...so that I could take the… more »

...was less than successful. Back following the icepocalypse, I resurrected 'lhaven' by changing its motherboard. The new motherboard was an upgrade to the old one, but I wasn't taking advantage of any of it. But, in my mind I thought that someday I… more »

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 »

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 »

The linux server known as 'box' died from the rain storm on Monday....well, the powersupply had been iffy for a while, and guess it toasted when things came back.Sounds familiar....since its predecessor died in a similar manner....transformer blew...… more »

Last night I experienced another Kansas Weather Event. Starting to wonder if I had known about these things, would I have called Manhattan, Kansas home?Last night it was rain, and lots of it. I may as well have been a solid water coming down everyw… more »