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You ever have one of those slow motion moments of disaster? Where you see it coming and your going “Noooooooooo!!!”, but it happens anyway. That was me today.
I had stopped at the Kwiki Oil Lube to get the oil changed on my van. After changing the oil they always ask you to start the engine and let it run for a min or two while it is sitting there over the pit. So, when asked, I reach in and turn the engine on and step back to the front of the van.
The thing about my van is that the after market remote lock system, when you crank the van, automatically locks the doors. So it is sitting there running and I had left the drivers door sitting open. Trust me I know my van… I always leave a door open or a window open so I can get back in. I’ve locked myself out before.. lol.. Maybe I shouldn’t tell on myself but, well, it has happened.
I went out with Jay on Walkabout yesterday..Walkabout Video It was a blast.. there was a small craft advisory but for us it was flat waters because the wind was out of the north and with 12 to 20 knots of wind we were hauling butt… average over the water speeds of 8.5 knots with us hitting 9.7 knots once or twice.
I decided to play with some video I had taken with my camera (canon s45 4mp digital) and compile a little movie. 🙂 here it is. Walkabout Video
This has got to be the server month from hell!!!
Not 3 or 4 days after getting the server back online from the DOS attack but the motherboard in it looks like it died (It had been running without being rebooted 745 days 🙂 Go linux.. It has been down for the last 2 days from this. Today we spent 6 hours swaping out the old server for a new one and copying the hard drive on to a new one to use as the primary boot drive. The new server and hard drive though not “new” should be a bit faster as the CPU is about 30% faster and it has double the ram now with one gig of memory. Also the new new hard drive is a 7200 rpm 8meg cache drive running at 59megs a second throughput. This is probably 5 times what the old drive was doing.. We found after the fact that DMA was probably not enable for the hard drive on the old server.. To be honest it probably didn’t matter as it was still much much faster than the available bandwidth for pushing content over the internet.
I appologize to everyone that my website has been down for the last week. One of the other websites on my server got targeted for a DOS attack.. The attacker did a pretty good job of it. He couldn’t hurt the server but he was able to crash road runners gateway for the network. Between the attacker and Road Runners slow responce time it left me without an ip address for my server for about 8 days. Sadly I would have to rate the attacker as more competent than road runner support. On a bussiness class roadrunner account, and not a base account at that, they really were not that excited about helping us. Last thursday they were not responding to calls to their support center and saturday till this morning they also were unavailable. How do you provide a business class mission critical service if they wont even answer the phones and tell you we won’t be available for you when your down. The two lower end techs I delt with were nice but pretty unreliable about calling back when they said they would. They were as far up the food chain as I could get on the phone.. According to them the guys that I really needed to talk to don’t talk to customers and they had to relay all communications to them.
I was feeling pretty anti-social yesterday and it having been a while since I had gotten out sailing, decided to take Sea Puppy out by myself. It was nice to just go sailing alone. Serious recharge the batteries time for me. It was a gorgeous day and though alone on the boat I did get over near Walkabout to get a few pictures of her for Jay.
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I got a few pictures of the water and clouds that day that I thought were pretty cool also
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