Monthly Archives: September 2002

We’re capped.

So, I’m serving this from my basement over my DSL link. As you know we were down over the weekend. This is because my modem died. I’m using a spare provided by my roommate. Unfortunately, my iniability to diagnose the problem lead to a truck roll
The bottom line is that when the tech looked at […]

post-outage update…

Yes…
We were down all weekend.
I am such a broadband addict now, that I go into withdrawal after a few days.
It looks as though my modem went bad on us. I’m going to buy a speedstream soho modem. Any one know if they’re any good?

New machines new performance

I finally received the new machines. 1.2GHz Duron CPU’s.
One of these has been running the web server for a few weeks now, but we had a snafu and the wrong stuff got shipped…
Long story short, I’ve got the machine, and it boots, but I think I need a new kernel, because this one (2.2.19) does […]

What do you know?!

So, I get back from San Francisco, and voila, there are offers for our domain! Sorry not interested…
Anyway, I’m still trying to get the database into its new home - a 1.2 GHz Duron. But I’ve been having some stability issues with the Duron CPU - I had to learn things about the Kernel, Durons, […]

San Francisco

We made it to San Francisco. It took four and half days. Our route was:
St. Louis, MO.
Lincoln, NE.
Cheyenne, WY.
Reno, NV.
San Francisco, CA.
We had no real surprises during the trip. All in all, it was pretty great. San Francisco is a great city. This will be the third time I’ve been here, and I’m really getting […]

Trip from St. Louis to San Francisco

11382Kansas is basically flat.
Driving through Nebraska and Wyoming is liike peeling an onion. As you crest each hill top, you come to see new hils with slightly different landscape and geology happen.
In 200 miles we went from green forested land to khaki, sand prairie, to red and burnt umber desert.
11108 You also notice a real […]

Here’s the deal:

OK, this is now geekforce.com.
Ian and I have been hosting theis since 1995. I’ve got a lot of the older stuff that we did in a bunch of tar files, and we are working on sorting through all of that.
What works:
monty’s old stuff, the Apple Doomsday clock…
Ian’s old stuff. except for poe, but I’ll fix […]