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May 11th, 2012
Today io.solarscale.de acted real weird. The filesystem turned read-only on
me. So I rebooted the vps. When it came back it suggested fsck'ing the
filesystem. So I rebooted it once more hoping that it would fsck on boot.
It didn't do that. So I learned from my VPS provider how to put the system
in a rescue mode and finally I was able to fsck the hd image. The system
is debian and the particular filesytem is ext4 with journaling. For some
reason it would mount rw before the second reboot but still manage to say
it needed to fsck, how cocky! Anyhow. Everything seems sweet now. And
I may have learned how to install FreeBSD on this vps too. Shall the time
ever come I may do that.
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May 1st, 2012
OpenBSD 5.1 has been released today, at least I found the OS on the ftp.eu.openbsd.org ftp server.
So I wiped my vmware setup and installed it on the 160 GB SSD. Here is a
paste from the top while playing a youtube video:
load averages: 0.98, 0.91, 1.00 jupiter.centroid.eu 14:14:43
56 processes: 53 idle, 1 zombie, 2 on processor
CPU0 states: 11.6% user, 0.0% nice, 4.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 83.6% idle
CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
CPU3 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
CPU4 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
CPU5 states: 4.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 95.2% idle
CPU6 states: 13.2% user, 0.0% nice, 8.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 78.0% idle
CPU7 states: 11.6% user, 0.0% nice, 9.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 78.6% idle
Memory: Real: 269M/958M act/tot Free: 6994M Cache: 575M Swap: 0K/7353M
mostly idle. This thing is a beast. Yes I did turn on HT again to see if the
lockups were confined only to Linux. I had another 80 GB SSD which I have now
put to rest until I need a replacement SSD. Also I tried gnome but it didn't
work so I'm back to using fluxbox which is fine with me.
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April 29th, 2012
Well I had a really long break from hacking on wildcarddnsd. While reading in
this SIP book (see below) I noticed that the SRV RR is not supported by W.
So I'm thinking of putting that in. Anyone interested in helping with this?
Other little hacks are moving the command line flags to options in the config
file. If anyone is interested in doing that go right ahead! If you want a
bigger challenge I need a replacement parse.c file that is nicer perhaps a
YACC file (no bison!). What's on the menu for the long run? Well I hope to
be getting some time to do DNSSEC sometime in the next 2 years and also the
recursive resolver function I'd like to re-implement as this one is currently
broken. There is lots to do you just gotta look for it.
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April 29th, 2012
In this article
I wrote about increasing boinc from 1 to 2 cores. It has been doing that
since February 2nd. So all good things come to an end, they say and it is
without regret that I'll be ceasing my processing probably around May 2nd. So
I had done 3 months of processing on 2 cores. OpenBSD Europe has started
shipping OpenBSD 5.1 and I fully expect my copy to get here tomorrow so that
I can start installing Jupiter with OpenBSD. In this other
article
I wrote about being in spot 142,597 well I'm happy to report that I'm now in
spot 97,043 so in the top 100,000. And also in the top 5% of BOINC participants. I think it's a job well done and I also paid for it with my electricity
bill. At least I gave something back for science.
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April 28th, 2012
I have switched jobs and I want to tell about it so far. I think it's an
awesome job because it's 100% remote. But like any office setup I have a
voice over IP (VOIP) phone where I stay in contact with the staff and it's
routed entirely over the Internet. The phone I had from before because I
had contracted (technically I'm still a contractor) from this company in the
past and back then we got the SIP Phone for me. The pay is sufficient for
me to move out of my 1 bedroom apartment and I'm eyeing January or February
of 2013 for the move. I'm hoping to get an apartment where I can dedicate
1 room to the office so that I can close the door at the end of the day.
My hours are spread more over the day since work is also in north america
and I'M in europe. So I have the benefit of being able to conduct maintenance
on the computer systems while everyone sleeps and I'm also available during
the morning hours to the company. Our systems were designed for remote
consoles since that was the idea of the system architect, and it suits me
100%. I'm glad I got this job since I'd likely be unemployed again if I didn't
have it. well that's all so far, but I also want to say that I'm 100% impressed.
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April 19th, 2012
Today I looked how hot Jupiter was and with horror I noticed the CPU was
at 81 degrees Celsius. A few more Centigrade and it would have turned itself
off from overheating. So I decided to clean the heatsink from dust again.
See here
. To my horror and after reseating the heatsink 4 times it didn't have
any cooling effect. So I had to go out and buy a new heatsink/cpu cooler.
I bought a Cooltek Coolforce 2.
I had to unmount the motherboard from its back-panel today to
install the new CPU heatsink/fan.
Before
After
To my suprise the CPU is now 25 degrees cooler and the CPU fan is not as fast
and loud. Very cool!
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April 18th, 2012
In a previous
article I listed all the computers I had, by now 2.5 years later 3 more have
been added.
Uranus,
Jupiter, and Saturn. I'm going to give a rough outline of them.
year , computer type , Mhz ,acc. Mhz , RAM ,accumulated RAM
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1986 , Sinclair ZX-81 , 1 Mhz, 1 Mhz, 4 KB, 4 KB
1988 , Commodore C-64 , 2 Mhz, 3 Mhz, 64 KB, 68 KB
1992 , IBM-PC 386-SX25 , 25 Mhz, 28 Mhz, 4096 KB, 4164 KB
1994 , IBM-PC 486-66DX2 , 66 Mhz, 94 Mhz, 8192 KB, 12356 KB
1996 , Intel Pentium 120 , 120 Mhz, 214 Mhz, 32767 KB, 45123 KB
1999 , Intel P-II-350 , 350 Mhz, 564 Mhz, 131072 KB, 176195 KB
1999 , Intel P-II-350 , 350 Mhz, 914 Mhz, 131072 KB, 307267 KB
2000 , AMD Athlon 1000 , 992 Mhz, 1906 Mhz, 262144 KB, 569411 KB
2001 , Apple G3 iBook , 500 Mhz, 2406 Mhz, 131072 KB, 700483 KB
2001 , Apple G4 Cube , 450 Mhz, 2856 Mhz, 131072 KB, 831555 KB
2003 , Intel Pentium 200 , 200 Mhz, 3056 Mhz, 65535 KB, 897090 KB
2005 , AMD Athlon64 3500+ , 2200 Mhz, 5256 Mhz, 4194304 KB, 5091394 KB
2010 , Intel Core i7 4core , 9600 Mhz,14000 Mhz, 8192000 KB, 13000000 KB
2011 , Intel Atom N270 , 1600 Mhz,15600 Mhz, 1024000 KB, 14000000 KB
2012 , AMD C-60 "Ontario" , 1000 Mhz,16600 Mhz, 4096000 KB, 18000000 KB
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hard to believe that 18 GB of RAM have been accumulated in all my computers.
In 2005 it was just 5 GB. Yup I'm spoiled and I'm worried about overspending.
One positive factor however is that the Atom and C-60 don't use up very much
electricity so I can keep them on overnight, and since Saturn (the C-60) is
running windows it goes into sleep mode after I close the lid of the netboook.
I haven't checked but I would assume the energy draw is little then.
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April 8th, 2012
I want to see how much my traffic drops with this, this is what I got..
%more robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/
in the future people can still reach my /private and /public folders through
google.
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