Michael Bevilacqua (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} time3) wrote,@ 2008-04-13 21:51:00 |
|
| Entry tags: | geek, health |
Walking miles within a 300 foot radius
This past week, I moved one of my client offices up one building in the same office park to a place more situated for a firm of their size. Took me about four days total. Fortunately for me, most of the building was already wired with Cat5e to a punch panel, although, none of it was labeled properly. That meant, beyond what I had to do already, I had to tone-out each line, make it live, test it, and mark it. That portion took an entire day, but the results are of course better than ever with their Gig switches on a faster Comcast Business Class Internet connection. Breaking down the server room, the video conferencing room, some of the workstations was another day. Getting everyone setup again took yet another. No real struggle. And you know, without this new hip, I don’t think it would have been possible for me to do at all.
The new server room is tight by design but with my expertise in making things work it ended up being extremely clean with room for expansion. There is even a dedicated A/C unit for the three servers (one being a Sun Fire). How’s that for professional? :) Photos to come.
I’ve decided to abandon the Tektonic.net VPS solution. At this point I have the ability to do what I need to from the home FiOS connection, so I might as well save some money and some downtime. Twilight.clockbot.net is the new server, a 1.7GHz CPU with 776 MB RAM and a 36 GB disk running Debian. I have it sitting on one of my public IPs. Hopefully Verizon will setup my RDNS for it soon. It is backing up to the RAID-Z on Decade on my home network just as the VPS was. It will also allow my users to IRC out using IRSSI or WeeChat, which is an important feature in my book as it is the best way to keep in touch with me.
I was using the VPS for a secondary DNS. Fortunately, I was able to talk Elizabeth into letting me do the secondary on her Linode VPS. It’s rather light and simple with DJBDNS. Migration took a matter of minutes. Syncing required a little sudo(8) trickery with the way she has her system setup. But it all works well. Secondary DNS backups will be running to my home network from her machine. I’ve just submitted the request at GoDaddy to change over my sticky NS2 record to the new IP.
I’ve been having very vivid dreams due to the SSRI I am taking. Nightmares mostly where I will wake up in the middle of the night fully aware of what I was dreaming about. Very creepy. Before now, I was never one to remember my dreams due to my inability to sleep with much ease. It makes one wonder if dreams are the reasons for one’s insomnia.
Originally published at Bevilacqua.us. Please comment here.
