Reduced updates

Currently, the server hosting this blog (a 300MHz Silicon Graphics O2 with two SCSI discs) is sitting on a shelf in my bedroom, where it’s been housed since I moved house in December. This’d be fine, except the discs are so damned noisy! So basically, for the past 8 or 8 months, the server’s only been switched on whilst I’m not there (and even then, only when I remember to turn it on before leaving) and so there have been long outages, and few updates.

The good news is that, as of tomorrow, this should all be a thing of the past: The electrician is coming back, and is fitting the power sockets, network sockets, and a light under my stairs, so that I can finally move all of the computers into here, where they can run all day long without disturbing anyone!

(With the added benefit that the gaps in the floorboards under the stairs are so wide and draughty that all of the kit under there will probably be better cooled than the work servers in our datacentre! Either that, or the immense amount of heat blown out will reduce my heating needs to pretty much nothing 🙂 )

This post brought to you in association with Boothby Graffoe, in acknowledgement of the number of outages this server has experienced recently: