10 Years Uptime Comes to An End

Well, it’s the end of an era. My personal NetBSD server, the one with an uptime of almost 10 years, finally died an ignoble death yesterday. The HDD finally died, probably because of a faulty IDE controller. She’s dead. Kali RIP 1998 – 2008 I’m gonna try to rebuild, but it won’t be the same. …

This raid controller rocks!

This raid array is pretty smokin. I needed new storage the other day, so I bought me a stack of 1 TB disks on sale from NCIX, stuck em into my box, and put ‘em into a raid 5 configuration. It took a bit of fucking around to move the windo$e installation onto ‘em (thankfully …