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--Tech & Moderator Notes
Today's tech note
2009-12-22
Rolled over from yesterday...
We had a hard drive failure overnight on our old server. Its job since retirement has been to backup the Burg's data on a daily basis, so we're presently flying nekkid. I've got a new drive on order, and it should be here in a few days, and I'll switch our development machine to backup duties this evening.

If you've got spare change please don't forget the tip jar. Paypal donations go to monthly operating costs and Amazon goes for the occasional hardware buy. There's usually not that much left over for beer.

Update...
I got the development machine set up last night but I didn't have time to do the backup -- so try not to break the Burg today.

By the way, we just went over 200,000 articles archived -- another Grim Milestone™... And we're now headed for a million comments...
Posted by:Fred

#12  Unless I'm mistaken this is how Guiness was born. The malt was roasted in a fire and Sir Guiness was to cheap to toss it out.

But I may have been drunk during the tour and misunderstood them. Anyway a bunch of Americans beat Guiness RFC that wonderful day in 1999.
Posted by: Beavis   2009-12-22 22:31  

#11  Just paypal'd a dime over to ya, take care of that hardware and keep it coming.
Posted by: Beau   2009-12-22 22:13  

#10  I miss .com. .com, if you're out there and still peek in every now and then...Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

That goes for the rest of you 'burgers as well. Old friends and new.
Posted by: Pherese Prince of the Swedes1137   2009-12-22 20:51  

#9  I'm in for my usual Paypal, Fred. Merry Christmas to you, Gloria, Doctor Steve, and all the mods
Posted by: Frank G   2009-12-22 19:33  

#8  Fred, who supplies your RAID connector? If it's LSI Logic, I can probably get any needed software upgrades. If it's Adaptec, I don't have any connections there any more... Also, if you're using SCSI and have any problems, I do know a bit about the subject, and will gladly share.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-12-22 15:16  

#7  That's a better deal than I got, but what I got's still overkill. My ideal desktop anymore has a solid state drive for operating system, with all the real storage on an a raided external.
Posted by: Fred   2009-12-22 09:15  

#6  What type of hard drive?
Frys always has deals:
that are pretty good
Posted by: 3dc   2009-12-21 22:55  

#5  Fred, I use a ReadyNAS Duo with a 1 and 1.5 terabyte for my RAID home backup needs. Not only could you back everything up, but you could serve the burg from it if you needed to. Just a thought.

I have about 500gb spare right now, if you want I could make you an FTP account and open a port for you.

Posted by: rammer   2009-12-21 21:50  

#4  Among his many admirable faults and virtues, dear .com was a very generous man, and one of Nature's gentleman (whether he wanted to be or not).
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-12-21 17:58  

#3  The drive on order from Amazon is a 1-terabyte, at $100 or thereabouts. It's overkill for my storage needs -- the Burg's hard drive is 250GB and if it ever gets that full it'll be because we got hacked.

I saw an Asus "home server" with space for three hot-swappable drives for $365. When the time comes to replace the current Burg hardware that's what's going up.

Our first dedicated server cost me (actually .com, who kicked in for it) $2000. The current server, that replaced it, was under $1000. I do like watching the prices of hardware going down.
Posted by: Fred   2009-12-21 17:55  

#2  Wow! Cool! Just gave up my childs monthly allowance to you thru Amazon and on the return to you all the screen colors were revesed. Howja do dat?
Haven't used PayPal since I got phished last year.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2009-12-21 17:34  

#1  Several months ago I saw a 1 terrabyte remote hard drive at Best Buy, it's 100 bucks and plugs in as an removable storage unit, that what you looking for?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-12-21 16:49  

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