Blah blah blah connect the dots
1) The mail server is migrated. I’m anxiously awaiting the MIPS version of Ubuntu/Debian so I can upgrade my Raq and then migrate DNS, the last thing left running on Gateway.
2) A little addition to my Code directory – feel free to critique – is a script that will run SpamAssassin against a already existing maildir. Stupid but possibly useful. Not really fully configured yet, you’ll probably have to edit it for your situation.
February 20th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I never liked those goddamned Raq machines. I especially hated dealing with them when they needed to be fsck’d manually because the cheap-ASS ISP I worked for couldn’t keep power on to save their life.
February 20th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
And, no, that cheap-ASS ISP was NOT Epoch 😉
February 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I do seem to remember Epoch having problems keeping the power on. I remember several incidents, in fact.
1) Twice in a row, ‘Blackout’ Himey hit the UPS EPO button.
2) A certian IT manager who will remain unmentioned ignored the LCD screen on the 200kW Liebert and put it on the bus bars of the building before it had phase matched. As it happened, he hit it exactly wrong and blew the main fuse for our floor
3) 30 amps of servers on a 15-amp circuit. ’nuff said.
4) Once another IT manager who will remain unnamed found a unlabeled 50 amp pony-panel with one 30A breaker in it. he decided to find out what it was, so he turned it off. Nothing appeared to fail.. until 8 hours later, when the backup batteries for the multiplexers ran dry. [THAT was a fun night. I didn’t know what was wrong with the circuit.. no one had ever done anything as mundane as blueprints or a outlet map.. so I had to steal power from the web servers, without taking them down. Much wackiness ensued)
5) In the early days of the east coast office, there was a outlet in the hall that was on the same circuit as one of the racks. A cleaning lady plugged in a vacuum…
6) During a building rewiring, we hired a backup generator, but somehow forgot to take into account that the dry UPS batteries would take some energy to refill. Then, we had to start a completely down machine room. Well, you know machines take more energy to get up to speed than they do when they’re cruising…
7) One of the vendors gave us a power cord with hot and ground swapped. I won’t describe the results, other than to say that we had to replace a few video cards because the chips had been literally blown off them
I think that’s enough to illustrate my point, even though there are more
March 10th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I’m confused… what do you mean waiting for MIPS version?
http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/