flouri.sh

Things started going very badly for flouri.sh when my home server wouldn't boot up. I removed almost all the hardware, but could not even get a POST screen or any beeps. I even reseated the RAM and CPU, but no luck. Finally, I grabbed an old media PC shuttle cube and attempted the craziest idea:

The 4 x RAID5 disks are actually being powered by my old server, but the PCI raid card is inserted into my old media PC. The shuttle doesn't have enough power or room to run all those disks so I'm using the old server as a lifeboat with 4 IDE cables running between them!

Ever since moving to San Francisco, I can't believe how fast internet access can be here! Check it out:

The sample above was taken at my house... middle of the day... using a cable modem with Comcast over 802.11n wireless!

I finally have a blog!

Anyone who knows me knows that I've despised blogs my entire life. However, I feel it's time to move on from my backwards ideals and embrace a new technology. I divided it into these sections:

• Blog: a running timeline of the next 3 sections
• Personal: information about my life.
• Projects: full projects that I've done outside my current job.
• Technology: smaller technological tidbits not related to work.
• Work: things that I've done at work.

I chose Mephisto as my blogging system because it's rails based. I've already made several modifications which I'm going to blog about in later posts.