{"id":1359,"date":"2004-12-30T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2004-12-30T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T23:29:00","slug":"so-you-wanna-act-like-a-professional-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/so-you-wanna-act-like-a-professional-server\/","title":{"rendered":"So, you wanna act like a professional server… :("},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve started actually using the technology at home for an actual purpose. I started building up not only my own web sites, but helping others administrate and host as well.<\/p>\n

As a result, I’ve also been putting some more money and work into my home system. Well, that was until today.<\/p>\n

This morning, my server system went down. And it went down hard. I think besides losing one of the old hard drives inside (happily none of anyone else’s important served data), I think the power supply has also gone south. The system started spontaneously powering off within 3 minutes of boot time.<\/p>\n

I called tech support who basically tried to get me to manually eject the CD with the power user’s tool (read: a paperclip). When this failed, they actually had me remove the DVD\/CD and Main Drive assembly. And in the process of doing that, the ‘molex’ power plug for the main drive unit came apart in my hand.<\/p>\n

So.. my sweet server is now off at the shop getting checked. This happened just as I was putting in a redundant backup system. The idea being, if the server were ever to go down.. at least I’d be able to continue to serve on a backup machine \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Good idea.. A few hours too late.<\/p>\n

So… I have my laptop, and my net… But all the server work I’ve been doing is currently unavailable. Well, I do have a local copy of apolo.com (minus the last code change)… I theoretically could serve it from my laptop.<\/p>\n

So, to make up for the pain and suffering, I’ve decided to let myself join the herd and bought myself a copy of Neverwinter Nights. Everyone and their brother has been talking about it. (As if I don’t have enough online and offline distractions already)<\/p>\n

The install came on TWO Cds. I’m really not much of a ‘game player’. I’d forgotton how games tend to basically ‘take over’ the computer. Which was a little annoying as I was recieving AIM messages but couldn’t toggle over to respond.<\/p>\n

Well. it’s the 30th.. So quiet time I guess.<\/p>\n

I miss my copmuter. I hope it gets better soon. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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