It wasn’t intentional, at least the scheduling wasn’t intentional. However, last night there was a power outage and our servers crashed and then came back on. What is different, though, is that the firewall server is now running Forefront TMG instead of the old ISA 2006. This is much better, of course, but previously I [...]
Filed under: Site News, Technology on April 28th, 2010 | No Comments »
Some of you may have noticed this morning when the blog was unavailable. As you can see, it’s back now and working properly. I guess that some of the “fixes” I put in place broke things over the weekend and I only now got it back up and running. It as almost completely lost. That [...]
Filed under: Site News on December 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
I bet you didn’t even notice, but we’re now running on Windows Server 2008 R2, which is 64-bit only. Yay! This is has been an ongoing project which I started a while back when 2008 came out. I wanted to migrate all the sites from 2003 to 2008. I got bogged down and then R2 [...]
Filed under: Site News, Technology on December 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Upon arrival back from our trip to Houston, it was good to arrive back at the house to see that our basement work was complete. The wall was done and painted, the wall trim installed, and the door put in place. It looks like it was always there. Here are some pictures of the inside: [...]
Filed under: House, Site News, Technology on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
This week, we’ll be modifying our basement. We’ll be walling in a nook to contain all my servers and networking equipment. It’s the latest phase of getting our basement set up for photography. This will allow us to move all the excess computer equipment out of the main basement area into a closed room. In [...]
Filed under: House, Site News on October 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
So, in the process of upgrading my email server to Exchange 2010 Release Candidate, the power went out [it was out for a whole day] and now it’s VERY messed up. I’m trying to restore services, but we cannot send or receive any new emails right now… So, I’m not deliberately ignoring you. This time.
Filed under: Site News, Technology on August 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
I know many of you won’t care too much about this, but I’ve migrated my web site photo gallery from MySQL to Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It’s now working on the new server. It was actually rather painstaking to get it set up correctly, but it’s done now. The only thing you might miss is [...]
Filed under: Site News, Technology on June 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Gardening is hard work – especially when you find some kind of rock under the topsoil. Digging around it, we found that it could be broken into pieces. Not easily, but it could be done. So, for the last hour or so, we’ve been digging through it just to get holes deep enough for some [...]
Filed under: House, Life News, Photography, Site News on May 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been slacking off. It’s just that simple. I do have some excuses… Wanna hear ‘em? The server’s been broke and I’ve been working to fix it so I had no time to blog… Work’s been kinda busy, so I’ve had no time to blog… We’re moving to a new house soon, so I’ve had [...]
Filed under: Life News, Site News on June 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After trying many things including getting the product team involved in diagnosing the problem, I decided to rebuild the server from scratch. That seemed to correct the problem of Hyper-V not working correctly. No one is sure why, but my guess is that the install got corrupted for some odd reason. I have to say, [...]
Filed under: Site News, Technology on May 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
