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lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

There was a conjunction of outages this past Friday. First, our DSL went out around 8:30AM. Service was restored in a couple of hours.

Second, Floyd's Discount Router finally bit the dust. I had plenty of advance warning about the imminent hard drive failure, yet did nothing about it. I spent the past day or so cooking up the old web box as a router, and finally got the last of the DNS issues sorted this morning. Everything appears to be ship-shape once again.

One thing I was interested in finding out as part of this inevitable (if rushed) transition was how much of a power draw I was looking at for the router boxes. Via my trusty Kill a Watt, I found out that FDR pulled about 20 watts when it was idle, and 30 watts when it was busy. The new recycled router is on that wack Cyrix III processor, which appears to be barely faster than the Pentium 100 that was in my old laptop, and a 3600RPM hard drive. The new guy pulls 30 watts at idle, and 40 when it is working hard.

I should see if Adam still has his old P100 laptop in working order...

ktabors

Playing with Kyle's volt/amp/watt meter I know my laptop idles at about 40 watts, but usually uses about 50 to 55 watts.

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

After having to recreate a NAT router from scratch some five or six times, I've finally checked my config files into a CVS repository. Woo! Near-instant recovery!

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

This is a test post. I've been screwing with the PHP install, and apparently phpBB was making good use of a bug that was fixed in PHP 5.0.5.

http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=322
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/topic-310587.php

Karzon

Thanks for bringing my worktime entertainment back!
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meira

I can post again!
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lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

There will be a (hopefully) brief outage tomorrow while I install some new drives in the web box. We're low on space, and I'm tired of not having things RAID'd.

Argyle

I guess I'll wait until then before I attempt to upload some pictures.
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lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

The pictures are also getting the new hotness. That's part of what motivated me to get the additional drives in there, we don't have enough room to import the current gallery.

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

Interruptions complete. Let's see about that gallery upgrade...

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

New hotness activated.

Argyle

Hm. The proxy seems to be an impediment. I think I'll try again from the office tomorrow.
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bforsse

Me thinks there is some problem with the java applet slideshow, here is a screenshot of the error I recieved:

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

Interesting. I haven't messed with the slideshow features yet, I'll give that a shot.

lanclos · Earl of Idleness Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 3921

Both types of slideshows work from inside the firewall... I'll try it tomorrow from work.