Ramblings by Chase

And they say America is messed up: http://www.cronaca.com/archives/003219.html

“But tongues are really wagging over rumors that Google staffers are toiling on a Web browser that could rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. While Google remains mum, the buzz heated up this week with its hiring of a top developer who worked on Foxfire, the burgeoning open source browser from the Mozilla Foundation.”

http://www.nypost.com/business/39457.htm

I guess I forgot to mention that I got email back up first thing the next morning. It was a permissions problem … it happens everytime I upgrade vpopmail. It changes the user on the files to something other than it should be, so suddenly it can’t write to the folders/files. Once I remembered what happened last time it was an easy fix. I also had to update the config that allows me to run spamassassin and clamav on the emails. The upgrade dropped a new version of the integration script into production, but didn’t merge any of my config options. Oh well.

I decided it was long due … I began the process of running updates on Gollum (my main server). The updates were going smooth … until all of the sudden Gollum just FROZE. So, I switched my monitor over to the server and what do I find? A kernel panic message. Great!

So I reboot. No big deal, other than the fact that I was enjoying the fact that I had over 180 days of uptime. Well, the reboot was a big deal. Apparently either the kernel panic or some action on my part currupted the patition table on one of my drives in the RAID. Ok, so several hours later I found out what to do (there were other things that caused that time to pass so quickly that were not related to Gollum). So, I have the array up and running again. I don’t know what I would have done without the array.

Anyways, as a result of the upgrades, email broke again (every time I upgrade!) so that is going to have to wait until tomorrow morning from the office :)

It’s the first day back to work after the Christmas holidays. My mind feels like jelly … it doesn’t want to do anything for me right now. I have a ‘project status’ meeting in a few minutes to bring my boss up to speed on the projects I’ve been working on. Too many things at once right now … a project for Campus Security (which I’ll complain about later), documentation for my ecommerce stuff, and probably one or two other things I can’t get my mind to focus on right now :)

I need to go check on some things before this meeting, so I’m out of here for now. Maybe a followup later. We’ll see.