… as the magician with the rabbit would say … Happy Birthday! … uhm … well … yeah … I have been really busy lately … Lot of running around … Getting the truck fixed a couple times … finally today (yesterday) for good … but that required some errands that I don’t normally do … A trip to get the number off the side of the master cylinder … A trip to meet a guy there to verify that it was the master cylinder … A trip to put on the part when it came in to find out it wasn’t the right part after all … Then another trip to finally get the right one on …
My father had extreme system slow-down on his machine at his office … Didn’t know why … said everything was slow … After determining that it was just his system, tried to see how the machine itself was running … CPU didn’t look over taxed as well as plenty of memory being free … Hmm … So, I ping the server … time-outs … I ping the gateway … time-outs … Could it be the network card? The snow closed some places, so that day went wasted … The next day the place was closed due to illness so eventually stole a 3Com out of another machine in the office and stuck it in there … Vwahlah! It was the network card …
Development on http://www.lastmanband.com finally completed and launched about 24 hours ago … Everyone is happy … Development on several other sites continue … Some more important than others … Downloaded the database from my father’s web site and removed a ton of comment SPAM … An old ASP site I had done a long time ago … I’m sure it will fill up again … I should rewrite the site …
Watched Catwoman; The Day After Tomorrow; I, Robot; The Girl Next Door and The Village …
I may not have a job on Sundays anymore … the Whiskey Tango is looking to cut costs and if Brian Bortnick doesn’t play there anymore, they’re not going to replace him immediately with anything and they may just end up putting him in the front room like they do for the Monday night acoustic show … That will be a huge monthly pay cut for me … I guess it’s inevitable … unavoidable … a done deal … Brian is seeing if there may be a way to continue to utilize my services … either by helping with the small PA or by running another PA somewhere else should he go somewhere else … I guess I should do whatever comes along …
Cleaned up log files on the Windows servers … If there is more than 250 log files in a directory, the stats program will choke and sometimes cease to process … I thought it errored out, but it seemed like some sites past sites that had too many log files processed further than others … I don’t understand it … But I should switch to something that doesn’t have this restriction so it doesn’t choke … Also, some people are deleting their “/stats” directory, and that will error out as well … I am going to implement something on the FreeBSD side that handles all of this, but wouldn’t you know it again, there’s something that runs more efficiently on FreeBSD than it does on Windows … I hate to keep knocking the platform, but it happens time and time again that there is more efficiency on the FreeBSD side of things using software that costs nothing to procure … I’m sure there is something that has a decent price tag on it for Windows, and someone like me that needs to use it on many domains, there will be additional fees … *sigh* …
I think that brings me to current … I did buy some fabric at the fabric store to make pockets for Octane’s guitar cabinets as well as a cover for the monitor board … The fabric I bought was marine vinyl … Nothing too flowery … Just black …
Oh, and as I click the categories to file this post under (almost all of them) I remember that my Counter-Strike server died … again … This time I don’t really know why … I was getting ready to catch up with the old CS crew, and the guy says, “Is your server down?” … and I’m like I don’t think so, let me check … Sure enough, down … I look at the machine … No power … hmm? I then press the power button, nothing … I turn off the power switch in the back, then press power again … okay .. it’s on .. walk around to the monitor … Nothing again … hmm … same thing again … power off in back, power in front … I watch it .. it stays on .. hmm? Around to front … I see the thing booting and … boom! gone … The thing won’t stay on, so I think power supply? Who knows … I have to replace the thing and see if that does it …
Right next to it is a P3 that was the Windows MySQL server a while back … I finally put a power supply in that and stuck a 160G drive in there … Started to install FreeBSD 5.3 and I get drive errors … hmm? So then I think maybe it’s the version so I burn brand spanking new FreeBSD 4.11 … same sort of thing … hmm? Turns out the drive setting are what’s confusing it … So I go into the BIOS, select USER and it won’t let me specify the HDs Cyls and Tracks like all other BIOSes do … Then I start looking for BIOS upgrades, etc … didn’t find anything promising, so this machine sits … Now with this weird thing going on with the CS Server, I think I will do some swapping out of power supplies and drives and see if I can’t get the faster machine working with the larger drive and throw up another FreeBSD web server … One with quotas, and log management with stats … ooh, I am so excited!