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> Mini-vacation and new server (again)
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Sep 5 2006, 12:55 PM
Wow, you put off writing in your blog once, and it turns into 2 weeks later.

So, I have been doing some more recruiting, and we should see some new members announced soon. Keep in mind still, we have yet to do any "official" recruiting, so this is all via PMs on other forums. I'd say that bodes well for when we actually start recruiting for real. The only difference is that people will be appriaching us, not the other way around, so we will have to be a bit more selective.

So, the server had a hiccup last week. One day it was just down, and then it came back up on its own, like 6 hours later. I remoted into it and didnt notice until later that it was booted into WinXP and not 2003 Server. This meant that the mirror was down completely. I knew that if the box was still working, that there was nothing to worry about (there is no way that both drives failed). I decided I needed to go pick it up from my friend's house (where he hosts it on a T1) and do some troubleshooting. All that day, before I went to pick it up, I formed my game plan. I remembered I have a better chip and motherboard laying at my house, so I came up with a new idea to make a new server and have a 3rd server irc. So, the idea is to have the trac/irc/svn/test server at my house (so I can have quick access if something goes wrong), and have this older box just go back to my friend's house (with T1) to act as another irc server. They still need to be setup and linked, but I have the round-robin DNS all ready to go. (If you try pinging irc.projectwish.net many times, you should see 3 different IPs among the results, although not all are setup just yet)

So, it turns out that the extra CPU/MB I had were bad, which I should have known, cause someone gave them to me cause they got a new PC and that one wasnt working. Scramble mode then ensued. I remembered that my wife's PC wasn't being used (and hadnt been for over a month). I think the statute of limitations is up at that point, so a couple hours later and that was now the new server. It has a 2.7 Ghz celeron with 512 Ram in it, but should be good enough for what we need. So, since I was leaving on vacation, I set my router up to point to it, turned on remote access and left. I got in over the weekend and did some updates, but one of them closed the door, so to speak, and didnt allow me back in. This meant that I was not able to get back to it until we got home (last night at around midnight). I still had to fix my car, so it was around 2 am or so before I got our trac/svn back up.

Anyways, lots of juggling and fiddling with things just to change things again. This should be the best option for the project though. My home connection does not have the same upload speed as a T1, but I think it will be better to have access to it rather than have the speed. Hopefully it will be good enough, but maybe I will have to call Comcast and see about upping my upload speeds.

Development-wise, the GUI for DWARF is almost completely done. We are working on model packs and I am still working on some new stuff for the website. If you see some new things soon, you know why wink.gif.
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