Some time ago, I added a note to the front page of the Wiki to the effect that the its structure wasn’t especially effective for people who were just starting to get involved with what I’m doing. I’ve wondered if that’s part of the reason I’ve been doing this alone so far. (Probably not.) In any case, I’ve made great strides in the creation of a structure that’s more suitable for someone to just jump in and read.
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One problem (basically) solved.
Last night was very stormy and rainy here. About 4:30, I was awoken by a distant boom, and my UPS chirping. Continue reading
Adding Content related to Games
I’ve added a page and namespace to the wiki to hold the results of my research and development regarding Games People Play.
. . . and we’re back.
There are still more things I need to do, (memtest, adjust clock speeds, remove drives after sync, probably some stuff I’m forgetting) but I am not going to intentionally take sites off-line again until I have the previous system working again so I can switch over without incurring downtime. NO MORE DOWNTIME.
New Years’ Resolution for 2013? 99.9% uptime. I’ve done it before, and I can do it again. It’s just a matter of not failing to think.
Next up: I’ve finished reading Games People Play and will be blogging about it. However, I’ll be adding a large section to the wiki before doing so.
There’s still basically nobody reading this, so ok sure fine whatever. (Which reminds me, I need to get Subversion up and running again. So much to do!)
Until next time.
Well, that was fun . . . NOT.
About 38.5 hours of solid downtime. The computer that has been hosting these sites became completely erratic in its behavior and I was frankly uncomfortable turning the thing on anymore. I went out and bought parts and build a completely new system–no used components at all, which is a first for me–and right now have hobbled back on-line by adding the hard drives from the old system and am booting off them.
This would never work with Windows.
There will be more downtime today and tomorrow while I’m figuring out how best to transfer all the data onto the new machine in a way that makes sense. Linux is still kinda rough around the edges when it comes to software RAID, large hard drives and partitions, and GPT.