I’ve just installed the new power supply for the server. It had crashed 3 times in the time it took the package to arrive. So – I’m going to let it run for a while and see what happens. I’m confident that this will solve the problem – after all: my server has more than [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on March 29th, 2007 | No Comments »
In other news, my group at work is going “down south” to Florida next week for a Summit meeting – meaning our enitre practice gets pulled out of our projects and sent down to sunny Florida to spend two days inside a hotel and not out on the beach. We get to stare at the [...]
Filed under: Life News, Travel, Work News on March 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Do I post too much about my computer travails? Do you have some other thing you wish me to blog about? Let me know…
This is my forum to vent, but if no one is listening it’s no more fun!
Filed under: Life News on March 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While waiting for my new power supply for the server, I’m working on Laura’s computer to get it up to spec. Now: when we took it out of the box, it had Windows Vista Home Premium, which lacked certain key features that we want. So we upgraded to Vista Ultimate. After a couple of days, [...]
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I contacted the support people at ASUS [the manufacturer of the motherboard I'm using for the server] and they responded with a few tips. One of those was that my powersupply might be insufficient for the task at hand – and they even provided detailed product specs to make sure I found one that would [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on March 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
After a second 60 hour week, I certainly hope so. At least, maybe it will slow down a little. I’m tired.
Now maybe I can try to fix my server problems… or not…
Filed under: Life News, Work News on March 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday, Laura’s new computer arrived. She now has the fastest computer in the house. It’s quite nice. Now, I have to spend a little time to get the thing up and running properly and set up just like she likes it.
This new system will run the latest versions of her favorite video/photo editing software without [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on March 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
It seems I have NOT found the problem with my server. After migrating the data [all 400GB of it] to non-RAID drives and removing the RAID card, the server still crashed. I’m now down to two remaining pieces: the video card [not likely, but I still have to try] and the motherboard. The drives, case, [...]
Filed under: Life News, Site News, Technology on March 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
I have moved all of my critical data off of the RAID array now, well, all data in fact. It’s empty and I’ve deleted the entire array. Now, what I need to do is go in and pull the card out. Then, I’ll leave it up and running for a while and determine if it [...]
Filed under: Life News, Site News on March 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
You somehow accidentally flip a switch on your motorcycle battery charger that keeps it from being able to charge. The switch changes from 6V to 12V and was supposed to be on 12V, which I know in the past it was. However, sometime recently, it got switched over to 6V. This means it was unable [...]
Filed under: Life News on March 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
