Tag Archive for 'server'

Having a bad drive day

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Malgent
on July 21, 2008
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Having a bad drive day

Originally uploaded by Malagent

As a technician, system administrator and all around super geek, I have told others over and over again to back up their data. Sometimes my own advice is a bit hard to follow, ya know how it is - you get busy looking through Flickr, debating politics or whatever and the next thing you know. ZAP, just like that, all your really important irreplaceable data that you just happen to need right now is gone.

This normally would not be an issue for me, but this drive is not usually on my Mac protected by the Leopard’s Time Machine. This drive comes from a Windows 2003 Server from my little data center. At least the Mac is letting me copy the data whereas Windows just freaks out and goes into a BSOD spewing tantrum.

So there they sit, billions and billions of useless ones and zeros doing nothing but making me mad.

So I’m off to wait on 280GB of data to copy (I wonder how long I’m gonna waste burning 64 DVDs?) so I can rip this damn drive out and smash it to pieces with a hammer. Then I will kick myself a few times for failing to practice what I preach. Oh, and don’t forget to back up your data, you never know when you are going to learn the meanings of MTBF, MDT, and MTTR.

19″ Compaq 7142 Server Rack Cabinet

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Malgent
on July 7, 2008
in Stuff for Sale and server
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My data center is getting downsized and upgraded, so there are a few surplus items to put on Craigslist again. The first of which is this COMPAQ 19″ Rack cabinet manufactured by Rittal. What self respecting geek would be caught without a rack filled with servers?

The purpose of this post is to provide additional information and photos of this item to those that are interested. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below. Continue reading ‘19″ Compaq 7142 Server Rack Cabinet’

Linux Apache MySQL PHP

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Malgent
on November 23, 2007
in Reference, server and software
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tux.pngThe acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free software / open-source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:

  • Linux, referring to the operating system;
  • Apache, the Web server;
  • MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
  • PHP, the programming languages.

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

I’ve made this small graphic (80×15 pixels) that you can use to designate your usage of this type of server. L.A.M.P.

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Problems with Vanilla 1.1.4

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Malgent
on November 17, 2007
in server and software
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Several attempts at installing Vanilla have all ended in disappointment.500-error-01.jpg As a platform for a forum community, Vanilla looks promising, however, the server gods have thus far prevented me from trying it out on my on server.

I could just use phpBB, but I am really sick of it - primarily the constant spam problems. So for the time being I suppose I will just do without a forum and rely upon the antiquated comments in the blogs for discussions.

This installation is on my shared hosting account at Hostgator. It appears the problem is that the built in file manager of cPanel does not tranfer the files correctly.

Resolved - I deleted everything and started over using an ftp client. In this case Fetch 5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5, now everything appears to be working well. The forums are available now and being tested at forum.malagent.com until I have a better use for them.