What's been going on
It has been a very busy week for me, so far.
There is a whole lot of work to be done in the company, particularly in my workshop and our technician is on a 3-week vacation. Hence, at lot of things are coming down to me, especially since there are a lot of calls coming in from customers right now as well.
I am starting to have to shift more towards management than technology/service/maintenance/training/development, which is a bit saddening. I rather get my hands dirty than organize something and become a desk-jockey, but the way things look like right now, I don't have much of a choice. I will explain details at a later, more suitable time.
There are several trips coming up in the coming weeks. I will be going to Vienna, Paris, Magdeburg, and maybe Florence (Italy) and Dubai. Another trip to the US is also on the "to-do"-list for this year.
In addition to all that, I also have to prepare for an exam next Tuesday. I am confident about it, but nevertheless, exams are not made to be easy. :-)
Sometime in June, my brother and I noticed the clicking noises of hard drive-death coming from the server-corner. However, we did not notice any "degradation" in performance, neither as far as our router, nor the file server itself are concerned. Both machines run on Linux and given that I know Linux doesn't care that much right away if the system drive dies, I just waited for one of both to fail. It was not until the day after I came back from the US, that the file server started not assigning IP addresses anymore by DHCP. The DNS-Cache still worked though.
It was then that I shut memoryalpha down. I am waiting to bring it back next week, this time using two RAIDed CF-Cards as system-media. I have opted for the SanDisk Extreme IV cards, since they are very fast (40MB R/W, 10-year warranty). Connected to an UDMA-133-controller and after some optimization, I should be seeing good transfer rates and boot-times.
When and if this works nicely, I will be doing the same with Subspace (router) and maybe also with Engineering (my Linux-PC that I use to do work and configuration on Memoryalpha and Subspace).
Last but not least, I am still a bit upset by what happened last Sunday. What is striking me is that for some reason, loosing my friend from Boston hurts me much more than loosing my ex girlfriend.
There is a whole lot of work to be done in the company, particularly in my workshop and our technician is on a 3-week vacation. Hence, at lot of things are coming down to me, especially since there are a lot of calls coming in from customers right now as well.
I am starting to have to shift more towards management than technology/service/maintenance/training/development, which is a bit saddening. I rather get my hands dirty than organize something and become a desk-jockey, but the way things look like right now, I don't have much of a choice. I will explain details at a later, more suitable time.
There are several trips coming up in the coming weeks. I will be going to Vienna, Paris, Magdeburg, and maybe Florence (Italy) and Dubai. Another trip to the US is also on the "to-do"-list for this year.
In addition to all that, I also have to prepare for an exam next Tuesday. I am confident about it, but nevertheless, exams are not made to be easy. :-)
Sometime in June, my brother and I noticed the clicking noises of hard drive-death coming from the server-corner. However, we did not notice any "degradation" in performance, neither as far as our router, nor the file server itself are concerned. Both machines run on Linux and given that I know Linux doesn't care that much right away if the system drive dies, I just waited for one of both to fail. It was not until the day after I came back from the US, that the file server started not assigning IP addresses anymore by DHCP. The DNS-Cache still worked though.
It was then that I shut memoryalpha down. I am waiting to bring it back next week, this time using two RAIDed CF-Cards as system-media. I have opted for the SanDisk Extreme IV cards, since they are very fast (40MB R/W, 10-year warranty). Connected to an UDMA-133-controller and after some optimization, I should be seeing good transfer rates and boot-times.
When and if this works nicely, I will be doing the same with Subspace (router) and maybe also with Engineering (my Linux-PC that I use to do work and configuration on Memoryalpha and Subspace).
Last but not least, I am still a bit upset by what happened last Sunday. What is striking me is that for some reason, loosing my friend from Boston hurts me much more than loosing my ex girlfriend.