server

This Thursday I’m planning to pick up a new mini-fridge for the lab; haven’t had one since two apartments ago. Currently I’m considering the Haier 2.7 cu ft Compact Combo Fridge for the low price of what I make in 2.8 hours.
Looks like it can hold nearly a week’s worth of Mountain dew, plus ice [...]

As implied in the Title, my 1TB Hard Drive arrived yesterday and I’ve finished reassigning drives and moving my files around. Haven’t quite figured out what the M: drive will be assigned to, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something.
For those of you who are counting, the formatted space totals 3,409.37GB (3.33TB)! So far [...]

Following up on The Saga of the Comcast Internet Connection, yet another Comcast Technician was sent to my house today.
As some of you will recall, Comcast bought Adelphia in late 2006. Comcast has replaced everything from my network to the backyard cable tap. The house is filled with brand-new coaxial cabling, and we’re on our [...]

As many of you know, I’ve been having trouble with my Comcast Internet connection since Comcast bought Adelphia sometime in late 2006. This post follows up on my progress, or lack thereof.
Yesterday, a Comcast Technician arrived for a service call and replaced the exterior coaxial cable and placed us on a different port on the [...]

One of my computers at home is dedicated to productivity work (i.e. research, development, etc). Generally when I describe the computer to people, they gape in awe or exclaim how crazy I must be. Allow me to provide a brief synopsis for your Googling pleasure.
My main productivity machine started out as a pretty basic system. [...]

Cross-posted from a text file I had sitting on the server. No idea where I got it or who the original author is, but was funny enough to risk it not being public domain. Enjoy.
In the beginning, God created the bit. And the bit was a zero; it was nothing.
On the first day, He toggled [...]

J found a great Dell server on Craigslist for about 10% of its resale price. It doesn’t have near the storage space of mine, so he plans to use it for a web/sql/app/vpn server in the meantime (And possibly as a Backup Domain Controller, if we can get the damned thing joined to the local [...]

As some of you know from the previous blog engine’s database results, J bought a new Dell server and had trouble joining it to the domain Damnednice.com . There were two errors returned while attempting to join:
- A domain controller could not be contacted
- The RPC Server is Unavailable
I had this same problem earlier when trying [...]

The site was down for two days. You may have noticed the errors. Y’see, what happened is that I got a package via FedEx. New stuff doesn’t combine well with my inborn need for instant gratification (Thank you, Internet Age). The package contained a motherboard (Asus M2V) and CPU (AMD Athalon 64 4200+ Dual-Core; what [...]

The server just got a new old secondary video card (ATI Radeon 9250). It’s not great, but it has eliminated the artifacting I was seeing in the old ATI Radeon 7500. Maybe the old one crapped out because it lost its heatsink a few years ago; hard to say. Regardless, that’s why the server went [...]