WARNING: Geek quotient high, proceed with caution

I ordered the replacement caps from digikey the other day and today replaced the ailing ones in the power supplies. Low and behold it worked! I now have a functioning console server. Phew.

interesting bit of trivia.... if you have a 1T+ ext3 volume, you'd better have more than 512M of ram in the system if you hope to be able to run fsck on said volume.

Fortunately I had a spare 512M to go into the system.

I weighed myself this morning and I am down 40 pounds so I went shopping for clothes again. I found that I'd dropped another size. I'm down to a 30" waist according to the fine folks at Carhartt. Though there were no double fronts in the right length in stock so I bought another belt instead.

In other news:

• I'm getting my money back on the dead console server.


• I bought Metroid Prime 3 and it pretty much rocks


• micahbird pooped on Niko's head today and she was mightily pleased.


• I'm making Peach upside down cake
  

I got my second console server from ebay today. The first I can't get into because I don't have the password and there is no reset function and I failed at hacking it. Oh well. The second I bid on after checking for the password reset. All good. I got it today and it looked great up until I plugged it in and the smoke came out. Yeah. This bites.

I now have my very own 2 post rack in the garage and it's properly secured to the floor even.

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Are we there yet?

It's midnight and I have to be up at 4am. People in the office, please be kind to the zombie in your midst.

The power went out at about 10:20 just as I was falling to sleep. I couldn't sleep because my servers were on UPS and the beeping was doing nothing but keeping me worried. The UPS went critical at around the 1 hour mark and I shut off the web server and firewall to keep the mail server running, because I'd rather not have to boot that beast again. About 10 minutes later the power came on and I spent the next 20 getting the systems online again. Now I'm writing this post.

Now I sleep. :P