If you’re seeing this, you’re looking at the new server! This is what I’ve been doing for the last couple of weeks.  I’ve been moving several of the sites I manage to a new virtual host.  In my basement! Hopefully I can generate enough interesting traffic to put this connection to the test.  🙂 More […]

Well, it works.  But I can’t find a way to get the fans to do anything but go at full blast.  That might be ok for a noisy data center but it’s not ok for my basement. Flipping back to Server 2003 and VMWare Server so I can install the HP drivers.  Argh.

Simple note about losing the NIC when you copy a VMWare guest.  If you “copy” the image it creates a new MAC address.  Ubuntu 7.10 figures you installed a new NIC and it sets up ETH1.  That means ETH0 stops working. Ok, so I found this post and it led me 70-persistent-net.rules as the culprit.  […]

I’ve been waiting for Sage to bring out a new extender for months.  I’ve been prepping the DVD library, getting the network ready.  I just didn’t want to move too far ahead unless they had the HD Extender back.  It’s back and better!  Not much better but good enough for me.  I placed my order […]