Notices by Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)
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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... -
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... -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 22:59:30 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Hah, it worked. 🙂 -
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 15:55:17 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Updates!
Development
php: 8.6.0alpha3 -> 8.6.0beta1 -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 16:12:01 EDT
Clarissa Walker
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. -
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. -
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... -
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 Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 15:30:46 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Rather, *one* of its drives replaced... -
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 Monday, 03-Aug-2026 10:17:25 EDT
Clarissa Walker
New set uses Noto Color Emoji 17.0 except the back icon so far, which is the HTC Sense 7 emoji font. -
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 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.) -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2026 23:34:31 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Started using my Rockbox-flashed Sansa Fuze v1 again, now using v4.0. Painstakingly loaded a bunch of lossy and lossless music files on my old 128GB SD card. Forgot how great this old Digital Audio Player sounded...
Shame none of my old Sansa Fuze v2 units work right anymore... Got a bunch of Sansa c200 units, however, which are about as good audio-wise. -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2026 15:58:27 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Updates!
Security
php: 8.5.8 -> 8.5.9 -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2026 19:53:47 EDT
Clarissa Walker
I'm going to revive my old 'testskin' eFiction 3.x skin and properly make a scaling width 3-column layout rather than a fixed width one...
...after I do a proper release of efiction3-mod.
I think I did it the fixed width way due to Internet Explorer 6, but am not sure. -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2026 03:03:34 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Now, I finally managed to get gitlist working! That one was supposed to replace gitphp, but both will run now.
Since this took quite a while to get it up and running, I wrote up some internal notes on how to set it up. (I have way too many internal notes on how to do a bunch of technical stuff...) -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 10:46:54 EDT
Clarissa Walker
lmao, I remember now! I moved all the ISOs to a larger 256GB USB stick!
That was the reason the old 128GB SD card was now an empty exFAT partition! -
Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 10:31:23 EDT
Clarissa Walker
Somehow, I don't even remember zeroing my Ventoy SD card. Welp, time to rebuild it, as none of the original ISOs are missing anyway...