Linux Fedora 14
2010 November: I finished upgrading the last of my work servers running Linux Fedora 13 to 14 over the weekend and all in all, one of the smoothest upgrades in…
Netbooks R Us
We purchased a Toshiba Netbook NB305-00F back in June, mostly in preparation for our East Coast Trip. We wanted to have some computing power on the road, needed one for…
website outage
the server hosting this website will be down for maintenance thursday june 10th, from approx 07:30-09:30 for an operating system upgrade. *Update: completed at 09:30
Upgrade upgrade upgrade
Upgrades tend to be never ending… in the last week alone we have: replaced a 5m ethernet cable as it was too short and baseboard heater damaged moved the house…
Linux Fedora 12
Another smooth albeit a little slow upgrade to Linux Fedora 12 on this server this morning. Took about 3.5 hours of processing on a very old P4@1.7GHz server. After that…
server issues
The server running this website had a problem over the weekend (say from Saturday morning at 9am) but was successfully restarted this morning around 07:45. The static pages worked fine…
bunnies and network cables
Just over two years ago, rogue bunnies ate through our ethernet cat 5 cable to the observatory. It was spliced together and wrapped up in the cold of the winter…
allsky automation success
The allsky camera system, as it stands, is now completely automated. We had success last night with the mouse scripts where before something was always going wrong. A typical night…
UPS
We’ve had a few short power outages thanks to passing lightning storms plus some outages of the main data logging workstation we have that are a little mysterious. After looking…
allsky ghost mouse
We finally found a macro recording mouse program that allowed us to record the mouse strokes and clicks required to click on the Connect button in CCDOps, click on the…
another fedora11 upgrade
From the last post, more fedora 11 upgrades have been performed with the same results as below… Failure to find the Master Boot Record and start up the OS. A…
The world of software
Software is always changing.. always upgrading.. and today is no difference. WordPress, the engine that drives this blog, was updated this morning to v2.8 In other news, Linux Fedora 11…
ubuntu 9.04
The Linux Ubuntu distribution was released yesterday and I just happened to have a workstation with 1/2 a hard drive empty and waiting for something just like this. It’s an…
Busy weekend
2009 We look so forward to weekends to escape the mind numbing stressful workplace… and then are so busy trying to do some of the items we want to do…