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Jan 14, 2006 - Burning News and Bugs

Good news on the Burning front, i've got enough info from Apple to start building the burning plugin. Bad news is there are a slew of "thread" bugs in the current release. They appear as spurrious crashes that seem unrelated. I'm presently mutexifying and serializing everything

Jan 12, 2006 - New server installation up and running

Well THAT didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. Gall Durn! If anything could possibly theoretically go wrong, it WILL go wrong, that's like a law or something. But I persevered, pushed, kept marching on, tried plan B, C, D and EFG, and I can finally say, the server is "back", completely, *AND* I have a verified, working, complete backup. I took this vacation to *work* on kJams, but i've spent probably HALF of it dealing with the frackin' server!! Yeeesh! Brad thinks it could be bad RAM, which *would* explain everything, actually.

Jan 10, 2006 - re-installing the server today

My 2 new drives are "out for delivery" right now. I've put the server onto the iMac, this means slow server performance for today. Normally it runs on my Titanium 15" PowerBook, but i'm using that right now to do installs (it has a DVD drive, the iMac does not). Anyway, the server should be back to it's "normal" speed tonight. One day I'll get an XServe. mmmmmmmmmmmm

Jan 8, 2006 - Brand new installation coming

I just bought 2 new firewire 7200 rpm drives, one for the server and one as a backup. When they arrive tomorrow I'm going to do a clean fresh install from scratch (shudder) of the entire web site, and keep a running backup. I've been using these Notebook drives and they just seem to fail too often.

Jan 7, 2006 - Mail limping along

Thanks to my Favorite Person In The World™ Bradley, my mail box has been resurrected. I am now getting mail again directly from my server. That same day my friend Nik helped fixed the bug reporter. Since the 4th i have not been able to get bug reports due to the failure of my mailbox. Now both problems have been resolved.

Jan 4, 2006 - Catastrophic Server Failure

I had the server's HD go bad on me tonight. Just wouldn't boot. I rebooted from the 10.4 Server Installer CD and it said "this disk is reporting hardware failue" and it refused to work with it. Dam. So I pulled it out and plugged it into my WiebeTech Notebook DriveDock, and was able to mount it, so I CarbonCopyClone'd it to another drive, and that's what's running now. But the wiki broke complaining about some SQL files needing to be restored from a backup, luckily there were some sitting right there, so I put them in and it seems to work. Not so fast with my mail authentication. I don't know what to do there so for now i'm forwarding to another account. It may be a few days before I can get back to real work here.