Since launching CSProjects last year we’ve had nearly 80 projects set up on it. I’m pleased with the success it’s had so far, but I’m still surprised by people not knowning about it. Recently I’ve been trying to do more to publicise it, with some success. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spent some time sorting out the upgrade …
I’ve made a couple of posts lately about the problems we’ve been having with one of our Sun 3511 disk arrays. Sun got back to me today with what they thought the problem was. Here’s the gory detail (slightly truncated to fit this blog post): * SES Ch Id Chassis Vendor/Product ID       Rev PLD ————————————————-  2 28 092131 SUN StorEdge …
After all the fun the other day I was hoping for some time to work on other stuff this week. By the end of the weekend the array had finishing syncing and I’d remirrored all the volumes back on to it. It was all ticking over nicely, until this morning… Unrecoverable Controller Error Encountered ! Resetting Controller ! After which …
“Any idea WTF is going on?” is what I read on my phone as I stumbled out of bed this morning. It was from one of my colleagues who, for some reason I can’t understand, seems to like getting in to work at a ridiculous hour in the morning. Still half asleep I plodded through to my desk and sat …
I’ve done a bit of work on my FreeBSD ports lately. Firstly, after building my new server, I got round to upgrading from SlimServer to SqueezeCenter. This also meant sorting out ports for all the plugins I use. This didn’t take too long, and you can find them all over here. So far I’m liking SqueezeCenter, and I’d highly recommend …