Archive for September, 2003

twice on sunday

Sunday, September 21st, 2003

Hjorth and wobh (in the first comment) on metafilter team up for a daily double: a post about Borges and a comment referencing Gödel.

debian on dell dimension 4600

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

I’ve got a pair of new Dell Precision 360n workstations coming next week, so when I was called in to consult on installation of Debian on new a Dell Dimension 4600, I was hopeful that I could learn something useful, since I’m sure the architecture is somewhat similar. What I’ve learned so far is […]

misery

Monday, September 15th, 2003

From yesterday’s email to my users:

Sunday morning, monitoring daemons reported an issue with the server’s main RAID filesystem, which cascaded rather quickly into a full-blown cluster-wide problem. As soon as I could, I came in and rebooted the server, checking the disk for errors. It appears that the problem was a minor part […]