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2009 Oct 09 terra


Guy Blade Guy Blade---04:31:00


Down sites
Several of my domains, guyblade.com, the004show.com, and blade.io (and associated), will be down for the next few hours. I purchased more RAM for it two days ago and took them down in order to install the memory. In the course of doing so, I powered it off before it finished doing its raid writeback leaving both dirty filesystems and dirty parity (I thought it had hung irrecoverably). This should take a little while to recover, at which point operations should resume normally.

Since I built Freasha in the summer after my freshman year of college, I have only made two upgrades counting this one. The first was upgrading the original 40GB disk to a pair of 200GB disks in raid 1. This upgrade increased the machine's memory from the previous 256 MB to 2 GB. The upgrade was prompted by malloc failures when attempting to use git to version some large (100-200 MB) files.

I have always been a bit suprised at how well the machine ran even under heavy load with so little memory. I supose that a large portion of the success is attributable to the fact that I always ran it without an X server and that it ran on NetBSD which is designed to run well in low memory situations.

Regardless, I may need to go through a proper upgrade at some point. Freasha is still running on NetBSD 2 (current version is 5). It is using an ancient 1400+ Athlon Thunderbird. The machine is currently maxed on memory with this upgrade (only two ram slots and I can't find DDR 1 memory in chips bigger than 1GB). Since the machine doesn't have SATA, it will be difficult to replace a drive should one fail. Also, it has two network cards, one of which is a 10-baseT card (complete with BNC connector) which makes moving files to it unpleasant especially since most of my other machines have gigabit connections.

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2009 Oct 08 emeralda


Guy Blade Guy Blade---11:46:00


358
I preordered the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days sometime over the summer when there was an especially good deal from Amazon. It arrived last Friday, and I've been playing it off and on since then. Playing a new KH game made me nostalgic, so this evening I dug out Kingdom Hearts II and put it in the old PS2. It remains mostly as awesome as I remember it, but I have found a problem. It appears that my PS2 is beginning to show serious signs of age. The disc tray seems to struggle to eject and it took a couple of tries before it read the (not at all scratched) disc. Looking around, it seems like I can pick up a PS2 slim for about $100, so I may pick one up and put it in the closet for the time when my PS2 finally does give out.

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In mostly unrelated news, I found that Tumblr changed their authentication API at some point. The interesting this about the previous authentication API was that it was added at my request a few years ago when I was originally building up XPost. Regardless, the updates have been made and commited for Tumblr.

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I've been slowly working my way through the recorded 004 shows and cropping them appropriately. This has led to me finding songs that I hadn't heard in years that seriously need to be added to my regular playlists. Examples: Life is Like a Boat Take on Me. As always, all of the shows are available on the website. Interestingly enough, it seems as though the 004 show was promoted to the first hit on Google at some point. I am pleased by this.

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