natura upgraded to lenny
natura.oskuro.net, the home server which still serves this blog, has been suffering hardware problems for some weeks. Apparently the hard drive is failing …
sysadmin
natura upgraded to etch
Last week I started the final round of Debian upgrades for the servers I maintain here and there, which is mostly complete today. I haven’t been so lucky …
Silent home servers
The computer which hosts this blog is a venerable Pentium 150Mhz, with 64Mb of physical memory and two decently sized disks. It has been running non-stop mostly …
Hard drive failure
On Thursday, I went up to my father’s house to pick up my desktop, now that I finally have Internet access at home so I can have permanent access to it …
ADSL upgrade
Yesterday I wasn’t able to log into my home server from the office, and I assumed the load had skyrocketed again, as it happens every now and then. Timing …
Hardware disaster
The big storms of the past days not only affected some trees and the cars below them. On Saturday I went to where my main server lives and discovered the …