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| 024. OMG AN UNDATE! |
[18 Aug 2008|09:38am] |
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| Weekend Over! |
[17 Aug 2008|07:12pm] |
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Well starting with Friday, I got a bunch of work done in the AM. I actually had a fair amount, more then I thought I would have. I did a lot of preparation for the server work we did this weekend. Obviously I didn't get everything covered because we did hit a few snags while upgrading the servers. So after I got my work done I got all my gear packed up and headed to where the servers are kept. I worked on more prep work while there and then emilie came. She bought some stuff I forgot which was good.
Around 1pm the guy from GMA came out and checked over our lines and everything. We ended up splitting the voice and data wires and then we ran a cable directly from the data lines and pretty much right into the modem. Definitely noticed a BIG improvement and now I've noticed 0 disconnections since yesterday which is awesome. So now Scribbld should be up and running at 100%!
I don't think anything spectacular happened on Friday night. I attempted to get to bed early so that I could wake up early and start working at 8am like I mentioned.
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I just sent this photo to Keith, he should obviously get this instead of iPhone --
.... ok back to your regularly scheduled program ....
So I woke up a bit later then I had wanted to on Saturday, but by 8:20am we were working on the server. The first snag we hit was that one of the web servers wouldn't connect to the Internet. it's NIC module wasn't be loaded. Fortunately after some poking around and chatting on #Gentoo I got it working and made sure it loaded up on boot too.
The next snag we hit was the server to be Scribbld 1 ran some rather new hardware so it had trouble finding the hard drive. After bother #Debian I remembered the last time we installed Linux on it we had to use this special custom build which included drivers for all this new stuff. So after getting a bootable USB key we got the base system installed.
The last major snag we hit was we forgot to snag the Last.fm code from the development box so that feature was "disabled" until we could get to it today.
morgan and I worked until 10pm or so last night. We pretty much finished up all the big things and had about 8-10 smaller things left to do today. We did 2-3 of them today, the rest we'll complete over the course of the next 2 weeks. I don't expect it to take that long though.
emilie and I went to the barn this afternoon, played with the kitties, Bethany did really well in her A circuit show this past week. We almost brought another kitty home, we'll see. When I got home I added the Last.fm code and made sure it worked and it did. I'm just working on another Gentoo install for a private WoW server. I am hoping I can bring the databases over from the old percheron install, but you never know.
Alright, I think it's time to go relax and no more computer!
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| System Upgrade 98% Complete |
[17 Aug 2008|05:16pm] |
Hey kids!
We've just completed most of the upgrade, I know I promised Last.fm integration, but unfortunately, I've left one line of code on our dev machine (which I don't currently have access to at the moment) that will make it work 100%. I know exactly where the line of code is so on Monday I will insert that one line of ode, restart the server and then the Last.fm functions should work and the server will be at 100%. At this time, pretty much everything on the site should work, please use the support queue to report any issues you may be having and we'll look into it.
I am hoping that all cluster 2 users are okay, I don't see why they wouldn't be, but you never know!
So yeah, enjoy and definitely let us know of issues!
Update: We're now at 100% - all clusters are updated, online and running, we've updated the last bit of code that allows Last.fm integration! Test it out, test it all out, let us know how it all works for you! Submit any issues you have to the support section of the website!
Thanks everyone!
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| Internetz Fixed? |
[15 Aug 2008|09:37pm] |
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First I must apologize for not leaving comments as of late. I've been really busy consulting, working my horse, working at the barn, getting paper work done for my new job at the University and in-between spending some time with emilie. I've also been working hard at making sure we get a much more reliable connection between our ISP and our servers.
A guy from our ISP actually came out today and had a look at it all, I had him drill a direct line from our telephone box right into the server room. So now the modem has a direct connection to the phone box and it should be much better. Things seem to be fixed.
Tomorrow we'll be working on upgrading our entire systems setup. I've started a couple things right now, but the majority of it will get done tomorrow. We'll be starting at 8am and I hope to have everything back up and running by the late afternoon tomorrow if not sooner. It's definitely going to be pretty hectic but we'll get it all done.
I think I'll be getting to bed relatively early tonight, got to be up early tomorrow. I am hoping if it's nice in the evening, I'll be able to go out riding, but who knows. Have a nice weekend everyone, I'll attempt to get some commenting done!
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| Systems UPgrade Part I Complete! |
[15 Aug 2008|02:19pm] |
Hey everyone,
Sorry for the unannounced outtage. We just had the techs from our ISP come and check out the disconnection issues between us and them. Everything looks to be running a lot smoother now.
Remember, tomorrow starting at 8AM EST Scribbld will be offline along with all of our services. We'll be upgrding our codebase and moving our main web server to the Quad-Core box.
We thank you for your patience and understanding!
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| Cluster 2 Moved and Scheduled Downtime |
[12 Aug 2008|08:01am] |
I've moved Cluster 2 to 'palomino' so now at least it sits on a server capable of restarting itself after a power failure. Eventually in time it'll either merge with cluster 1 or we'll find a standalone server for it. At this point it's fine as-is though :)
This weekend starting on Saturday 8AM EST we'll be taking everything down in order to update the code base to something a lot more recent. The code we're running on currently is a bit older then a year which is pretty old! We hope to have it completed within 24 hours but as with all things technology-related...you never know!
Thanks!
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| Boston - Part II |
[11 Aug 2008|10:04pm] |
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This weekend went by waaaay to fast! On Saturday Emilie and I went riding. Definitely had an awesome time, really got a good ride in. Around 10pm or so the main database server locked up and everything went down. Totally suckass, so I had to drive like 20 minutes to where the servers are located and had to manually reboot it to find out the boot system RAID set had become degraded. No idea how it happened, but the rebuild only took 2 hours which wasn't too bad. The last time that happened to me, it happened on a 500GB set and took like 12 hours to rebuild lol. I do apologize about that! emilie actually came with me to keep me company, we finally got home around 12am haha
Sunday, not much happened, I've been playing as much Star Fox Adventures as I can, pretty fun game. I am ~20% done...worked at the barn and then went to my parents for dinner. Had an awesome dinner...I got a bunch of new movies and some new anime too (picked it up off the server while there).
Today I went back down to Boston with Keith. He had a second interview with Apple, he said it went very well, so that's awesome. We hit up Fire & Ice and the way back. Had some amazing food as usual. I highly recommend anyone who lives in Boston or visiting Boston to go there, you will love it! Really good price too, a lot better then I thought it was going to be.
I snagged an iPhone 3G, and it's quite nice. emilie got my old 8GB iPhone.
Tomorrow I've got consulting down south, so that'll be nice, of course I doubt it'll be nice weather, oh well. I think I might go riding tomorrow too. I got paid from the appointment at Yellow Steel in NH, yay!
I believe that's all the news I've got for right now! :) OH, Emilie and I saw Ex Machina, AWESOME!!!
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| Main Database Server Issues |
[09 Aug 2008|11:51pm] |
Greetings Users,
This evening our master database system had some issues with the boot drive RAID setup. After reviewing the issue we found out no data should have been lost and the RAID system has been rebuilt. Fortunately the drives contained within the RAID set were relatively small (80GB) so the rebuilt didn't take much time. We'll be watching the RAID set closely to make sure it's not a hardware failure, although at this point it doesn't look like one which is good.
We apologize for the downtime and thank you for your patience.
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