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  1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 08:27:07 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    The power supply arrived today, but it got misdelivered due to the address being one digit off. However, I got the package. 😏

    The mainboard and RAM were delivered a few days prior, so the only thing needed is a CPU.

    Power supply test:
    * basic power on with no load. Short green power-on wire to ground, and that is it. All voltages are on point.
    * basic power good test. Connect power supply to motherboard and power it on through the board. Success.

    No actual load test has been done, e.g. power good test but with a complete system instead of just a motherboard.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 08:20:20 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Sis's HP laptop has file integrity issues, but system is fine so far. Still monitoring the situation; the drive exhibited no actual issues. Apparently AMDGPU drivers are somewhat problematic.

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    Main server, compile box, and CD-ripping machine are still on Ubuntu 23.04 (Server, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu respectively), main laptop and test media server are on Kubuntu 23.10.

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    Speaking of test media server, it is on Mom's 2018 HP laptop, runs Jellyfin, and has a few test videos scrounged up from the main NAS and my old Windows 10 install.

    I'm still working out the quirks on the setup before the final install, which will not run on Ubuntu or any such spin; it will be running Debian 12, which is actually unusual to me, since I specifically prefer Ubuntu/spins.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 01:55:59 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Real life...

    Lot of maintenance to network and Internet equipment, then a certain HP laptop.

    I also started using Linux on my main laptop, and it's much more responsive than when it was on Windows 10. I still keep the install, because ~7 years' worth of cruft is on that install, which has gone through three laptops so far!

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    Routers have been upgraded from OpenWrt:
    22.03.5 -> 23.05.0
    and wireless signals have improved slightly, so has stability; no random disconnects on certain clients so far. Also, switched CPU governor from:
    schedutil -> ondemand
    and made a few tweaks to the ondemand settings... more responsive now. And... the minimum CPU frequency has been changed from 437500 to 600000 due to possible stability issues with the 2.4GHz radio and startup issues. Haven't had those myself, but it is preemptive.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 00:36:06 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Blew up the server by adding the orphan_file feature to the system drive. 🙃

    The filesystem was created before the feature even existed; better opportunity was to add it after moving off the old system drive.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 22:52:23 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Forgot about the Compile Box: the other Linux machine at hand... the 40GB drive can be accessed on that machine.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 21:39:13 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    The last install was a Raspbian (Raspberry Pi OS) Buster lite variant upgraded from Stretch on an 8GB SD card. Before that, it was a custom cut-down version of Jessie on a 4GB SD card (before a lite install was a thing). No known RPi2 server version here ran Wheezy as I recall.


    Last run:

    Using username "pi".
    pi@amisaph-raspi's password:
    Linux amisaph-raspi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l

    The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
    the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
    individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

    Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
    permitted by applicable law.
    Last login: Sun Sep 24 19:35:07 2023 from 2601:406:4c00:55c7:e9ef:4335:e256:5dea
    pi@amisaph-raspi ~ $ uname -a
    Linux amisaph-raspi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
    pi@amisaph-raspi ~ $
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 21:27:43 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    As of September 30, 2023, the Raspberry Pi 2 Test Server is now retired. This originally ran back in 2016 and had a few things that weren't on the main server. PHP was actually installed on the server but somehow broke a few months later; couldn't fix it.

    I now have the 40GB hard drive that contains the entire site contents. Will go through the drive on the CD ripping box as that runs a Linux distro.


    Other notes:
    * This is the second Raspberry Pi 2 in the entire set.
    - The first one unfortunately had a 9V spike due to a power outage, which killed it.
    * The RTC unit's battery installed on the Pi 2 is almost dead.
    * This particular Pi 2 has a header soldered for easy reset/power on.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 22:55:38 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Server update!


    Upgrades:
    openssl: 1.1.1v -> 1.1.1w

    Recompiled:
    httpd-2.4.57
    php-7.4.33
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 21:40:29 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Forgot:

    Upgrades:
    pcre2: 10.39 -> master_20230920
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 21:36:15 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The compile box needed a hard drive replacement; moved from Lubuntu to Xubuntu in the process... which required rebuilding the compile box setup. Saved and updated notes regarding such this time.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 21:33:17 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Server update!


    Upgrades:
    openssl: 1.1.1u -> 1.1.1v

    Recompiled:
    apr-1.7.4
    apr-util-1.6.3
    curl-7.88.1
    httpd-2.4.57
    php-7.4.33

    mod_bw-0.9.2a
    mod_limitipconn-0.24
    mod_fcgid-2.3.9


    Config fixed:
    php.ini (due to an oversight when htdocs server path changed again; broke session cookies)
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 12:57:58 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Server Update!

    mariadb: 10.11.4 -> 10.11.5


    OpenSSL needs to be updated; doing so another time, however.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 15:58:50 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Retrieved the 1TB drive and looked at the March 22, 2017 file. The archive is fine, there's just no unpacked file size calculation data stored in the .tar.gz archive for some reason.

    Also, the 2017 archives had the Abit and FIC FTP archives at the time. The Compaq FTP archive would then be added in May 2018.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 14:21:21 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The site will be down on or around September 12, 2023 due to Comcast finally upgrading the network in our area. I think mid-split is finally going to be here, though the actual configuration for our bought modem would be further away.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 14:19:10 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Additional notes: Some additional fans were added to the server, as the hard drives would end up being around 50°C otherwise.

    This was in addition to the CPU being around 60°C under load... though the fact that it had no thermal paste after ~5 years didn't help.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 14:17:01 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Post-upgrade notes: the system drive had exhibited massive read errors, coincidentally after the storage upgrade... and no, it was not the IDE cable.

    I had to mirror the drive to another one. That was around September 1, 2023. Though interestingly, I had to position the IDE cable at the right position, otherwise the data transfer speed would literally be in the kilobyte range.

    Old drive: Hitachi 180GXP IC35L060AVV207 - 61.4GB
    Current drive: Western Digital Caviar WD800BB-22JHC0 - 80GB

    That particular Western Digital was one of the many eBay purchases that sat mostly in storage until it was used in a Windows XP build, but even then, it wasn't used often. Found some unique data on that drive and sent that to the NAS before using it as a replacement system drive. It also had nearly 20K hours on it and no bad or pending sectors when initially examined.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 14:00:36 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Some notes: the last backup of the site before the recent upgrade was March 22, 2017, though the size of that archive has a discrepancy of full vs packed and will test it. The January 15, 2017 archive is more trustworthy and that size is ~95GB unpacked. The March 22, 2017 archive should be ~110GB unpacked.

    The current September 6, 2023 archive is ~575GB unpacked due to the additional FTP archive data that was added since May 2018, though the FIC FTP archive may have been present in the 2017 archives, but that will be checked after retrieving the 1TB hard drive.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 13:49:56 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    I have finally created a backup of the site data, htdocs. The 4TB scratch disk should be formatted once again, as the entire www-data directory set is no longer needed. I have already removed it from the NAS as it was supposed to be temporary.

    The recent database and htdocs mirror are being sent to the NAS, and all very old server data will be burned on two Blu-ray 25GB discs. That same data will remain on the older 1TB drive, but removed from the NAS.

    I have yet to mirror the site configuration; that was planned about two months prior to the upgrade.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 21:13:00 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    There was unscheduled downtime due to me adding 2TB to the server. Finally, I am creating a backup of the current server data.

    However, the drive is being zeroed because it was used as an NTFS drive with a GPT flag, and as a result, will be until tomorrow when I will start doing so.

    This is actually a part of the delayed server upgrade.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 20:12:46 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Another thing being done is finally upgrading an old machine to Windows 10. Also, finding some practically unobtanium (read: expensive) 8GB RAM (2x 4GB DDR2) that works on an Intel board; most are AMD-supported because of the large RAM chip count. Hasn't really been much of an issue since DDR3 era; only real issue now is server vs. desktop compatibility nowadays.

    8 or 16 memory chips for a 4GB DDR2 stick work on Intel boards, usually. AMD boards usually use 16 to 32 memory chips for a 4GB stick.

    Installing an AMD-supported RAM stick on an Intel board will either show up as half-read (4GB stick as 2GB) or beeps indicating unrecognized RAM.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
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Clarissa Walker

Clarissa Walker

Detroit, MI

http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info

Hobbyist computer tweaker/repairperson, webmistress, procrastinator. Does things on my own time. Also known as CW Cyrix.

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