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1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:41:16 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Obtaining a more recent copy of URL2 (Net_URL2) made things work better. Yet another test post.
2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:39:19 EDT Clarissa Walker
   http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/293
3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:38:53 EDT Clarissa Walker
   https://efiction.org/community/efiction-software-news/efiction-4/
4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:37:59 EDT Clarissa Walker
   http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/188
5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:22:26 EDT Clarissa Walker
   https://efiction.org/community/efiction-software-news/efiction-4/
6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:19:21 EDT Clarissa Walker
   May have fixed the URLs here. Test:
   
   https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B850I%20Lightning%20WiFi/index.asp
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:19:51 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     And another:
     
     http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/232
   • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Sep-2026 00:20:15 EDT Clarissa Walker

     in reply to
     Okay... mostly.
7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 03-Sep-2026 22:02:59 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   Recompile
   php 8.5.10, 8.6.0beta2: due to missing zip/libzip support
8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 03-Sep-2026 20:54:39 EDT Clarissa Walker
   ...It seems I have been compiling PHP 8.x without libzip support for quite a while.
   
   So, recompile time!
9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 28-Aug-2026 18:45:18 EDT Clarissa Walker
   Updates!
   
   openssl: 3.0.21 -> 3.0.22, 3.5.7 -> 3.5.8
   php: 8.5.9 -> 8.5.10, 8.6.0beta1 -> 8.6.0beta2
   
   Recompile
   curl: due to openssl updates
   
   
   Amusingly, PHP 8.5 and 8.6 was going to be recompiled after the Ubuntu 26.04.1 upgrade path, but PHP was updated before this, and that upgrade path is apparently ~2 weeks away... so this was to be done today.
10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2026 19:38:46 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    mariadb: 11.4.12 -> 11.4.13
11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 17:42:54 EDT Clarissa Walker
    The MariaDB databases have been relocated to an old low-use, low-hour 60GB SATA 3.0 SSD, specifically the Kingston SKC300S - SKC300S37A60G.
    
    As a result, the MariaDB databases now respond faster than when they were on the RAID 5 setup. Ironically, they were historically located on the system drive long before the RAID setups were a thing... that would be from 2007 to mid-2011. Of course, the current system drive is also a SATA 3.0 (3.2) SSD...
12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 17-Aug-2026 14:10:33 EDT Clarissa Walker
    I now have three 500GB SATA HDDs with no data on them at all.
    
    There will be a fourth one at some point, but this will require setting up an entirely new build for cross-checking purposes because the backup data from that 4th SATA HDD are spread on about three IDE HDDs...
13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 22:54:59 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Zend OPcache's file cache is now enabled for PHP versions 7.4, 8.5, and 8.6. More of a test than anything.
    
    ...I should change some directory names in two instances...
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 22:59:30 EDT Clarissa Walker

      in reply to
      Hah, it worked. 🙂
14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 15:55:17 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Updates!
    
    Development
    php: 8.6.0alpha3 -> 8.6.0beta1
15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 19:29:09 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Zeroing the drive removed from this web server's RAID array using my video converter PC.
    
    I do want to see if those 2 sectors marked pending either disappear or be remapped.
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 16:12:01 EDT Clarissa Walker

      in reply to
      The drive's 2 pending sectors were not remapped, but disappeared instead - weak sectors or general misbehaving drive.
      
      They were near the end of the drive.
16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 16:10:27 EDT Clarissa Walker
    The old Western Digital RE4 2TB drive is now in the home Jellyfin build! This is alongside the busted HGST Travelstar 1TB drive (which is somehow fully functional despite the near 11k reallocated sectors).
    
    I have also obtained yet another 500GB hard drive. However, I ran out of room in the Jellyfin setup for HDDs, so that won't be installed there.
    
    The Live TV server does need more storage for recordings, but both that and the Jellyfin servers need more storage organization.
17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 19:35:21 EDT Clarissa Walker
    The server is back! The old 2TB drive is still in the video converter machine...
18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 15:30:14 EDT Clarissa Walker
    The RAID array is having its drive replaced. However, the replacement drive is getting its checksum integrity set up, which will take a few hours. So for now, the array (which holds the entire website data, barring config files) is mounted in a degraded state.
    
    I do have the old 2TB drive; will zero that one at some point. If the pending sectors do not remap, this will be used for another purpose rather than going back in the array. Amusingly, worse-faring drives are added to the Jellyfin and Live TV servers due to being very cheap.
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 15:30:46 EDT Clarissa Walker

      in reply to
      Rather, *one* of its drives replaced...
19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 09:58:28 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Spent some time replacing the 2004/10/10 DirectoryIndex icons with a new set. [Spoiler: they are from the Google Noto Sans Unicode 17.0 set.] They only cover the most used files so far, and this also required a cleanup and restructuring of set icons.
    
    Lesser used files still use the v2 icon set from 2004/10/10 (called http-icons.tgz), and the only one used from the original icon set is the blank icon.
    
    Oh, and this server finally uses transparent .png instead of .gif for the icons.
    • Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 03-Aug-2026 10:17:25 EDT Clarissa Walker

      in reply to
      New set uses Noto Color Emoji 17.0 except the back icon so far, which is the HTC Sense 7 emoji font.
20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 01-Aug-2026 22:44:27 EDT Clarissa Walker
    Accidentally re-discovered a forgotten piece of PHP code floating on my server: TinyArchive!
    
    Script posted to the Internet in 2005, installed here in 2010.
    
    Works properly with PHP 4.4 and code uses PHP short tags (!). PHP 5.6 bombs on this, so it is finally removed from the server. I surprisingly still have the .zip archive on my NAS...
    
    For the chuckles, I'll probably spin up an old Windows server for this someday, as I'm not going to bother using Linux for that. (That, and it's easier, as the PHP, Apache, and MySQL packages are already compiled.)