Ken is unabashedly pimping his blog to inflate his value on blogshares. Do people do this in the real stock market? I can't say I really understand either one. Anyways, his strategy seems to be rather successful so far, where as mine ... isn't.
I spent all day yesterday, and some of the day before, trying to migrate services off of a dying server before it completely died. Mail, DNS, CVS, and a plethora of test and demo vhosts inhabited the server, as well as my news and blogs site.
I was getting periodic kernel panics, that were coming with greater frequency as I tried to move services. In typical saved-at-the-last-minute movie fashion, as soon as the last bit of data was recovered, the server crashed, and will not even so much as power back on. Although I've managed to mount the hard drive in the new server in case I need to recover any more files that turn up missing. The new server is one of the machines that I bought for my training room, but, with training going at the rate that it is right now, I don't think that it will be missed. Added a little ram, and now I have a $500 server, replacing one that probably cost $2000 new, and has had many times that much spent on it in maintenance time. (Hi, sungo!)
So, chimp is dead, long live barolo. I hope it can run for 2 or 3 years without much needing to be done to it.
Sunday is becoming my cache day, which is just fine with me.
Three caches today, two finds, one no-find.
The no -find: This morning, I went to the Preston's Cave Spring cache, where I surprised a young reprobate smoking some of that *other* Kentucky agricultural produce. I suspect that I looked rather like law enforcement in my getup - cowboy hat, black shirt with ASF logo emblazoned on the pocket area, hiking boots, and a binoculars case that probably looked like a holster. The kid saw me, got a terrified expression, and bolted into the woods like a scared deer. The aroma was unmistakable.
The other two were rather more out of the way - one at Shaker Village, and one in a park in Danville. It was a gorgeous day for driving with the top down, and I contributed to the terrorist cause by driving my SUV more than 50 miles today.
Listened to about 3 hours of Dean Koontz in the process, which I don't recommend to the uninitiated. He's annoying me more than usual in this particular book. Can't he just say "It was dark" without 5 minutes of analogies? Sheesh.
Nearly 10 years after buying the movie, I just finished watching Gettysburg. I think I made it most of the way through the first of two tapes, back when I bought it. As with many movies, I was not able to complete watching it because the co-watcher lost interest.
So, anyways, this evening I saw the rest of it.
It is hard for my mind to grasp that kind of slaughter. 53,000 men died in that battle. Many of them knew men on the other side.
In a time when a handful of casualties is considered a heavy blow, it is hard to grasp a 50% casualty rate.
Our LUG has put together a simple library thingy for our web site, which lets us list the books that we have in our library, and lets people post reviews of these books. This, in turn, encourages the publishers to keep sending us more books. (Lest anyone should think, for a moment, that this wasn't entirely mercenary in motivation.)
The software is mod_perl, and, now that it is mostly functional, we'd be delighted to let people poke around at the source. We had talked about moving it to SF.net if there seemed to be any actual interest, since, at the moment, the cvs repository is on my home machine, which makes me somewhat reluctant to hand out accounts like candy.
Yes, it is very limited, annoying in a number of ways, and lacks some rather important features. But we are making good progress, and hope to have something a little more functional pretty soon.
