My Servers
Move complete!
If you are seeing this post, your DNS servers have updated and noticed that my old VPS on JaguarPC is no longer where they should look. My blog and other random shit has now been moved over to Linode, where they don’t block IRC and other things I run on my box.
VMware ESXi 3.5u4, Intel SATA, and local datastores
This morning I rebooted my test box running VMware ESXi 3.5 to complete the upgrade from Update 3 to Update 4. The hypervisor came back up, but no guests were running and when I popped open the VI Client it indicated that there were no datastores configured and it could not find any of […]
Minor tweak
Turned off the Twitter digests, those were just silly and annoying.
A few more tweaks
Fixed the pretty URLs and RSS feed (blasted mod_rewrite), added Gravatar support, a tag cloud, and a download system that I may or may not ever use.
Wordpress 2.7 Upgrade Complete
The Subversion install/upgrade method wins again, bumping up to 2.7 was a single command while logged in as www-data on my server and then accesing wp-admin/upgrade.php
Does using fewer large drives in a server save enough power to matter?
In his recent Home Media Server Guide, Brian Won of Ars Technica briefly discusses the heat and space issues involved with packing lots of hard drives in to a personal server. Since these problems are handled nicely by cases such as the Cooler Master “Stacker” line and the Antec Nine Hundred, I started thinking […]