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Archive for October, 2006

usbcell

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Here’s a simple, but sweet idea: ordinary batteries that recharge by plugging into a usb port.
I like it; having all that specialized apparatus to recharge your rechargables was always a big downside.

hdd suspension in my Antec NSK3300

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I ended up getting the Antec NSK3300 after all. Here’s how I suspended the drives.
The NSK3300 comes with two metal trays with silicone grommets for mounting the hard drives. One is on the bottom of the case:

And the other is in the top compartment where the power supply is:

I took these out, thinking [...]

up and running

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

The switch to new hardware has been going very well. Currently email and most web sites are working on the new server. One exception that I know about is webmail, which is currently borken.
The only thing users should notice is a bunch of new certificates/keys:

there is a new ssl certificate for IMAP, that [...]

maintenance this weekend

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

I’m planning to switch warchicken to the new hardware this weekend.  I expect mail and www to be down this evening starting around 5 or 6.  Hopefully everything will also be back up this evening, but it might take into tomorrow.