UFies.org

Another late night it seems. Ok, so here’s the plan. Cat5 has put me in his debt by lending me his desktop machine, a nice little Athlon XP1800+, to use for UFies. Originally it was just going to be for the motherboard, but in the end I decided that I was going to do a […]

You have no idea the depth of hatred I feel for computers right now. To make a long and painful story short: Box down for a couple of days. Hardware bad. To make it a bit longer than that and see a picture of the 10 hard drives stuffed in the huge case (3xSCSI, 4xIDE,

I haven’t bothered to put anything out there yet but I hope to the the grand re-install of OS and hardware checking, fixing on UFies Real Soon Now™. It’s hard for me to escape on weekdays, hard for Fred (who has some of the hardware and who is good for sanity checking me 🙂 to

Rebooted to fix the kernel exploit that Silverstr blogged about, but the box never came up. Something to do with the SCSI drive not being detected. sigh I really hate this hardware. A lot. Anyway, Fred is going to go in and see if he can convince things to go again. At least there’s a

Not sure if anyone checks here to see what is up with UFies.org, but it appears to be down. I’m not worried, and am guessing it’s a network issue as I can’t get to data-fortress.com, our hosting company, either. Sit tight, it’ll be back soon. Probably has something to do with the gathering snow 🙂

Looks like it was just a bad cable, so /home is back and my guilt can go away, as everyone’s data is safe. Email me if you’ve got questions about anything, but as far as I’m concerned everything is back as of 10pm last night.

I’m scared to see what happens if you plug ufies.org hardware problems into google. Here’s how my last Sunday was supposed to be spent. Firefly was working so basically my plan was something like this: Sleep in long enough to be rested (done) Go for run (done) Have nice relaxing breakfast (done) Relax some more

If it’s not one thing it’s another. Logged in and the load was up to 160+, couldn’t log in as a user, couldn’t write to /home, nothing. Based on the dmesg output (read more for that) it looks like some sort of error in either the scsi drive or the scsi drive itself. Funny (not

Copied from here to reach the max number of people I know 🙂 Greetings folks. Some things are changing around here, and hopefully someone out there can help out. Since the Userfriendly servers moved from New Westminster to some far away place, the UFies.org box no longer falls under their realm of influence. IE: No

Seeing as this is about the only place people can check regarding Ufies.org, here’s whats going on (regarding it’s lack of existance right now): Something to do with Telus, and my ISPs connection to them. It started going flakey around 2am, and died completely around 3am. They have been notified, and I presume it’s being