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  1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 01:15:21 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    A bit of Ubuntu Server network config history:

    Ubuntu Server, like a lot of distros, stored network configurations under a single filename: /etc/network/interfaces. Of course, starting and stopping them was a bit different.

    With version 17.04, they changed it to netplan. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are handled there, and configs were stored under the /etc/netplan directory. Starting and stopping network interfaces changed as well.

    With version 19.04, they changed it again to systemd-network. They helpfully migrated the configs to the appropriate /etc/systemd/network directory and had 'netplan' in the filenames. (Uninstalling netplan would be a bad idea here; you need renderer: networkd in a netplan .yaml file instead.)

    --

    That same year, I spent over 30 minutes attempting to migrate IPv4 over (IPv6 was successfully migrated and was disabled in netplan) but eventually gave up, mainly because I knew no better of the systemd-network formatting back then. So this pretty jank network interface setup that stayed for six years is a result of the double migration of interfaces.
    In conversation about 9 days ago from web permalink
  2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:46:40 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    More tidying up the (quite) ancient scripts:

    * httpd.service no longer uses the apachectl script and now uses the httpd executable instead.
    * the netplan 00-installer-config.yaml file had a forgotten change for one of the network adapters.

    For the network setup, it's quite jank: IPv4 is handled by netplan and IPv6 is handled by systemd-network. This is due to a historical (2017) setup. Initial IPv4 migration to systemd-network actually broke this a few years ago (around 2019), and I never attempted to fix this since. It should be possible now, though. I also learned to not uninstall netplan at that time...
    In conversation about 9 days ago from web permalink
  3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 02-May-2026 15:55:56 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Forgot to mention: the HDD -> SSD swap is probably the main factor of cutting down power, the CPU/motherboard swap being second.

    I shaved off ~40W power usage by doing both.
    In conversation about 11 days ago from web permalink
  4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 02-May-2026 15:35:10 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The system upgrade is finished! I may have disabled the onboard video to make it headless on the OPNSense box, as now booting up the webserver will bring up the beep codes for that... maybe next time.

    Also, found out that the old swap partition was corrupted, so that was fixed.

    It's now possible to run future versions of MariaDB. However, version 11.4 will still be used for now.
    In conversation about 11 days ago from web permalink
  5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 15:32:06 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    The drive arrived today, and it's pretty abused. ~53% life left. This is fine to me, since this drive will not get a lot of writes from me, anyway.

    My current Silicon Power MLC SSD's life left is 32%. 😏

    Anyway, it also sorely needed a firmware update. This fixes the following:
    - issue where the solid-state drive (SSD) does not resume from low-power mode
    - issue where the system fails to boot when it is not turned on for a long period

    I also updated the firmware of a Toshiba MQ01ACF050 500GB 7200RPM drive due to the following:
    - Improved the shock handling capability of the hard drive in power-on state.

    This server will be offline May 2, 2026 for the system migration.
    In conversation about 12 days ago from web permalink
  6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 27-Apr-2026 18:24:42 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Follow up to the notice below, I was right, it was the Sony display.

    I touched up the diodes in the battery circuit on the Supermicro board, thoroughly cleaned it up, and powered it on. The display happened to glitch up at that time, so instead of rebooting the system, I turned the display off and back on again... and the display was normal again.

    I have two of these 20+ year old displays, and this panel is the first of the two... and it happens to have rare display issues, but the panel has no dying pixels, and the bezel is fine. It also has a matching back. The second one has (barely noticeable) dying pixels, but it functions perfectly otherwise... but it has a dent in the top right corner. It also has no matching back.

    I'm going to swap the power board and Tcon from the second one into the first one and retire the other display. Dad has the second one (which replaced the first), so it goes back to him after this.

    I'll have to retrieve another display for the retro setup, it seems.

    http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/232
    In conversation about 16 days ago from web permalink

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  7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 16:47:51 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Okay, ordered an SK Hynix SC311 128GB 2.5" SATA SSD for the replacement board.

    This actually delays the migration by about a week. It may also need a firmware update - specifically, a may not occasionally boot scenario.

    I also had an idea: relocating the database to another drive... again. I did this last time and it was a success, but it was with 2x 80GB IDE drives as a dm-integrity RAID 1 test.

    The database is on the same drive setup as the rest of the webserver data... which is not the system drive.
    In conversation about 17 days ago from web permalink
  8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 18:48:20 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    And... it also seems that I finally managed to get the board to keep its BIOS settings.

    That literally took over an hour to solve that.

    It originally started with it not responding with the power button, then eventually I walked off to retrieve something (over two minutes), then tried again and realized it powered on...

    Set the time and date, exit, power off the board then the PSU... wait ~2 minutes, power on the PSU, then the board. Forgot its settings.

    Repeat this ad-nauseam between testing RAM for errors and CPU temp. Oh, and the display would glitch up at times. May have to retire that particular old Sony SDM-HS94P monitor.

    Earlier, I disabled the BMC by jumper; the BMC was still zombie-enabled, but now the BIOS would no longer acknowledge it. Odd.

    Eventually jumpered the Chassis Intrusion setting and then used the Set User Default settings in BIOS. From there, BMC was no longer running...

    The board is in standby; it needs a SATA drive before the system migration.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink
  9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:03:22 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Yes, I have actually brought CPU temps down nearly 20° Celsius because the original thermal paste was bone dry.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink
  10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:01:47 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    After the CPU repaste: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink

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  11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 16:01:06 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Before the CPU repaste: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink

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  12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:16:13 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Corrections:
    open 'case' -> test bench
    Xeon E3-1270 -> Xeon E3-1270 v2

    Also, max temp hit 72° C this time.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink
  13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:11:50 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Ran a memtest, left for ~15 minutes, returned and saw that the CPU hits ~70° C on load... and that's on an open 'case'. Will repaste the CPU, but I may replace it with a Xeon E3-1270 at some point anyway.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink
  14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 13:00:28 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    The board works, though its IPMI is also very old and insecure. [Version 1.86! Latest official is 3.52 (was 3.38 but someone YOLO'd and is official now), though 3.64 exists.]

    Since I'm not going to bother updating it like I did with the OPNSense board, I'll disable it on the board with the jumper settings instead for now.

    Still haven't disabled it on the OPNSense board yet... http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/54
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink

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  15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 11:33:54 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    The replacement server motherboard has arrived. I haven't tested it just yet, however.

    Going to have to obtain a SATA drive, though. The board can also use a SATA DOM (Disk-On-Module), and those are usually of industrial spec.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from web permalink
  16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 21:22:55 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Found out the other old drive CD image is questionable as well. Going to have to re-download it. So both 2021-era driver CD image downloads have mismatched checksums...
    In conversation about 21 days ago from web permalink
  17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 20:14:35 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Forgot to mention: found one questionable file (possibly slightly corrupt). It was a driver CD image. Moved that one to 'questionable'.

    One BCM/IPMI firmware was repacked and a few third-party source files were loose, so I repacked them into RAR files.

    There actually was one official BMC/IPMI .zip file that was packed a little over a week before the known good checksum one, so it was moved to 'old'. The files themselves matched the ones in the known good one, too.
    In conversation about 21 days ago from web permalink
  18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2026 19:56:14 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Well, this future upgrade had me going through my archived stuff regarding the Supermicro X9SCM-F mainboard, since the OPNSense firewall uses one. I should turn off the IPMI/BMC on that, since I have not used it in over five years... It's not even hooked up, either. It merely adds ~2 minutes of boot time to the entire process...

    Anyway, found some missing BMC firmware and one newer BMC firmware on the Internet. I am also obtaining the rest of the driver CDs, since an earlier attempt was done when I didn't even have enough space in general.
    In conversation about 21 days ago from web permalink
  19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 13:11:22 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    I was just made aware that the Rev. C2 version of the AMD Phenom II X4 945 can be 125W TDP (most are 95W TDP), so that part is correct. So it does not account for the 95W Rev. C2 or C3 version of the CPU...
    In conversation about 23 days ago from web permalink
  20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 12:48:51 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    For fun, here is a comparison (the 125W TDP is actually wrong on the Phenom II; it's 95W):

    https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1189vs7/Intel-Xeon-E3-1230-V2-vs-AMD-Phenom-II-X4-945
    In conversation about 23 days 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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