Data Migration

I have moved all of my critical data off of the RAID array now, well, all data in fact. It’s empty and I’ve deleted the entire array. Now, what I need to do is go in and pull the card out. Then, I’ll leave it up and running for a while and determine if it reboots itself. I’m sure it will stay up for a while. In the mean time, though, I’m “low” on space. I only have 40GB or so left on the main data drive. I guess I could use one of the array drives… and grow the array after the fact. I don’t think I have any other drives that would be big enough. Well, we shall see how things turn out.

You Know It’s Going To Be A Bad Week When…

You somehow accidentally flip a switch on your motorcycle battery charger that keeps it from being able to charge. The switch changes from 6V to 12V and was supposed to be on 12V, which I know in the past it was. However, sometime recently, it got switched over to 6V. This means it was unable to charge, and therefore unable to start this morning.

This must have happened when Laura and I cleaned the garage. And clean it is, I must say! Laura has been on a cleaning frenzy this last week, so the whole house looks spotless.

Luckilly, I was able to roll-start it and get to work. I hope I can get home.

I Hope It’s Worth It…

I’m at work today. Yes, that’s right – on a Saturday. We have some big project with impossible timelines [aren’t they all, though?] and we have a deadline for implementation by Monday. So, at work I sit. I’m not even the one doing the real work – I’m just here for support… I guess that means that I get to blog and edit my pictures while the “real” work is done by the developer…

And, of course, then there’s all the snow and ice we had to drive through to get here this morning… 😐

All Work And No Play

Makes Jeff a very tired boy.

These last couple of days, I’ve been early to work, late to home and doing home chores/work when I get there. I haven’t gotten to sleep earlier than 1AM or so, but have beeen up before 6AM – 4:40AM on Monday for my first workout of the week [quite an achievement, I feel].

There have been things going on at work – both customer related and internal – that have both increased my level of stress and involvement and my level of hope. I can’t really talk about it here yet, but I feel that big changes are afoot. I’ll let you know what I can when I can.

RAID No Good?

I have been waiting for some time now for the manufacturer of my RAID card to reply to my request for help. I got an initial response, to which I replied, but have gotten nothing since. I’m begining to think that I may have to just buy a different vendor’s card. I’m thinking of the Promise SuperTrak EX8350. I know Mike likes his and it has certified drivers for Windows, unlike my current card.

So: my dilema is how long I should wait until I give up on tech support while my server continues to crash. At least the server crashes won’t affect the web sites anymore.

Winter Is Back

I spoke too soon. It looks like Winter is back for a bit. 19 degrees when I went out to run today. I cut the run short, but I did run a good 20 minutes… until my hands and eyes froze. It looks like it will even snow tomorrow. I guess this horrible, gusty wind that we’ve been having is blowing us some frigid Canadian air.

Ah, well, out I now go to brave the elements in our nation’s capitol.

Server Down and Snow Gone

Some of you may have noticed the server and my other hosted sites were down all day yesterday. I apologize, but now at least I know what the problem was. My RAID card is flaky. There’s no other way around it. I need to replace it. We’ll have to see how it goes, and I’ll have to figure out how I want to do things.

In other news, the snow that has been piled up for so long has now mostly melted away. Except for the brisk temperature today, we look like we’re slowly on our way to Spring. The flowers are even blooming now… well, the early ones are anyway. It may freeze again, but that will be on the way to a more long-lasting warmth.

Has Spring Come?

It’s now 61 degrees outside and the last of the ice and snow are finally melting. Are we headed into Spring? Maybe so. If so, some good motorcycle road trips might start to happen. I’ve been riding to work for most of the week – enjoying the nice mild weather. [By “mild”, I mean warmer than freezing which could entail the upper 30s or lower 40s]
In fact, I’m really tempted to leave the office early to go home by way of a two-hour side trip… even though my total commute time from the office is really less than 10 minutes. I don’t think I will though. I’d rather go home and hang out with Laura. 🙂