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Category: On the Radar

  • 1500 APC UPS Engaged

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    Please no more spending of money on technology.. this stuff hurts.. but now we have I think the largest capacity home 110v APC Battery Backup. After wiring it all together and getting the server to acknowledge it we have probable statistics! * LOADPCT : 25.0 Percent Load Capacity * TIMELEFT : 35.1 Minutes I can…

  • Stability returning

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    Glitches begone! So the machines stability is getting better. I have to pick up a larger UPS / battery backup. The one I have just does not handle power fluxuations around our home. Makes me cringe every time we flicker. Upgraded to Movable Type 3.2. Thought it was easy, but then due to the way…

  • The story of the glitch

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    Man this has been a real pain. Whoever said technology makes life easier should really be held accountable. hehehe. I’d like to try and break this down into laymen terms but it’s rather difficult. In my machine there were three drives. * Boot / Root drive (sata) * /opt = archive & application file store…

  • Technical Glitches

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    The drive MovableType is situated on is dieing. I lost a portion of my photography archive and a handful of important programs that help us get things done. Working on a solution that doesn’t break the bank but expect downtime over the next week. I know part of the blog is corrupted in places, watch…

  • SERBC 2005

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      This weekend Robin and I traveled to Chapel Hill for the finals in the South Eastern Barista Competition. We arrived about 11:30a, enough time to say hello to friends and colleagues before the two hour competitive marathon. Peter, Daryn, Tim, Cindy, and many more faces from [CCC](http://www.counterculturecoffee.com “Counter Culture Coffee”) working hard to pull…

  • Quickies.. Wassaap

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    The kitchen job went bust.. long story short the people who we paid to insure proper measurements measured wrong. This caused a 6″ gap in the counter which basically shut down forward progress on installing a kitchen. Of course the old counter had been removed prior to learning this therefore finagling was involved. In the…

  • Craigslist, Tech Sale

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    Ok so I’m pimping equipment we really need to get rid of here at the office. The Sun Monitor is the only thing that has been sold thus far but give it a look, and come out to support lightening my load. [CraigsList Charlotte, Technology Asset Sale](http://charlotte.craigslist.org/sys/88432801.html) -a