The Site Had Been Down This Morning

when I came in this morning, I got a lot of error message
and when I play the station with winamp, live365 error message was played...
what happened?

I noticed the same thing about 11:45am EST. Looking at the new posts it appears it must have happened about 1:00am EST. Everything appeared to come back online around noon. I was worried that the greater Boston area had fallen in the bay taking Macfive, Mrs. Macfive, the kiddies, and all of Highlander Radio with it.

MacEoghainn

That, would certainly be a bad thing

The reason why the site was down earlier was because Paul was tweaking one of the forums to keep an uninvited guest out.

Yes, and we also had something happen with the database server. Not sure what, when I went to check out the machine all I saw was a flashing underline on a black screen (linux). Could not get login or anything.

The CPU we have in there is old: 550 mhz from about 5 years ago. I would not be surprised if it was on the fritz because i use to overclock it.

Plans this year call for us to combine these 3 servers into 1 super server. Going to have dual CPU motherboard, RAID, and we are going to run win2k under linux to use our broadcast software. Also we will want to get a network drive/CD writable for more permanent backups off the RAID devices in case a power surged zapped everything. We can probably sell the 3 servers we have to help fund most of the cost as we can build this system ourselves and save $$.

An "old" server.....550 Mhz? You make me sick with envy.....

--Pneumandro still running on a 400Mhz Celeron II running W98

Man I want to list specs now =)

will list as follows:

Machine name
Role
Operating Ssytem
Specs


Lugh
Primary workstation
Linux From Scratch 4.0+ and Windows 2000
AMD AthlonXP 2700
1 GB RAM
hda == 160 GB
hdb == 30 GB
hdc == 8 GB
hdd == 24x12x12 CDRW
SBLive! 5.1 Sound Card
NVidia GeForce 4 / 64 MB


Bel
Auxillary workstaion / IRC
Mandrake 5.2
Inted 486DX2/50
12 MB RAM
hda == 8 GB

Rhiannon
Server
Linux From Scratch 5.0
And Duron 1.2 Ghz
512 MB RAM
hda == 3 GB
hdc == 20 GB
hdd == 7 GB

unnamed as yet
Test Box
Whatever OS I'm playing with
Intel Celeron 1.8 Ghz
512 MB RAM
hda == 120 GB

Very nice system there!

not complaining about specs to be sure. Although I do want to get a couple more machines.

A laptop (to be able to compute outside)

and a Mac (to play with and get a feel for the platform)

I'd also like to upgrade the video card in Lugh to something more modern, and one never can have too much hard drive space. I need to set aside somewhere just for storing tarballs. I've got software packages hiding in large directories on Lugh, Bel, and Rhiannon, as well as my testbox is running 2k pro atm and serving as storage for a fair quantity of video. I need to see if I can properly set up file system services on Rhiannon, and give her plenty of room for everything.

Ohh, and a good 16 port 100 Mbit switch would be good too, or perhaps two of them. Lugh, Bel, and the testbox share a 10 Mbit hub atm And does anyone know where I can find a ISA 10/100 NIC for Bel? That hardware and I'd then be able to complete the migration to modern specs. Right now, I've got Gigabit capable cable, 100 Mbit nics in all but one machine, on 100 Mbit switch downstairs plugged into a 10 mbit hub here, that's left over from the migration from a thinnet bus to Cat 5 Ethernet in a star topoligy, that was forced when the cable was damaged installing satellite TV. Sound like fun?