Unix: November 2006 Archives

Soooo. Major headaches with the new machine. Every few hours I'd get a reboot, with nothing logged in syslog. Very odd.
My initial suspicion was the power supply, but it's a spanking new 350W effort, and it's only driving ~30 watts of hardware. The voltages looked fine in the BIOS page and in 'sensors'. Not too likely, then.
I looked to the motherboard next. No bulging or burst caps, no debris anywhere, corrosion, all normal.

And then I put the RAM in my desktop machine and ran memtest86 over it. 1086 errors.

What surprises me most is that I didn't get any kernel messages before any of the reboots. I would have expected to see a kernel oops or panic at one point or another, but there was nothing.
Anyway, I've treated the poor wee thing to half a gig of unbuffered ECC RAM, so hopefully it's feeling better now.

More rumblings on the website / email / geekery front: I've bought the 'ilikejam.org' domain, so very shortly you should be able to get here by wibbling over to www.ilikejam.org.
It didn't really make much sense to have a website called ILikeJam, but which isn't available through www.ilikejam.something, so I've sorted that right out.
See unix for further inconsequentialities.

As you may be aware from the front page, I've bought the ilikejam.org domain. Some twazzock is squatting ilikejam.com, so I couldn't have that (although .org fits my purposes better than .com anyway). I was always uneasy claiming to be 'ilikejam' when I didn't own an ilikejam domain (ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com doesn't count), and now balance has been restored to the Universe.
So, I now own davidstark.name and ilikejam.org. I'm pondering whether or not to seperate email, web and FTP between them, but I'm not sure. Maybe I'll use the davidstark.name domain solely for email, and have web and FTP on the ilikejam.org domain. Dunno. At the moment, the DNS zone files are identical for both domains, and postfix has its $mydestination set up to receive for both, so my options are entirely open.
Suggestions welcome.
The next step is either to finish and deploy JamServe, or to install and lock down Apache to serve these here webpages. I'll probably lose my pagerank (of 4) in the process, though, 'cause I don't have access to the pipex webservers to set up a proper redirect - I'm not sure how Google responds to meta-refresh redirects, but I suspect it won't be pretty.

Yay. I'm finally running my own mail server, so anything send to @davidstark.name should get punted straight to the server in my wardrobe.
Just for the record, we're running: Postfix, procmail and Dovecot.

I'm transitioning my home server from my old ilikejam.dyndns.org domain to my davidstark.name domain, now that I have a static IP. I should really just leave everything as-is until my DNS record propogates with the changes, but since I'm here, I might as well do it now.
As such, depending on how 'far away' your DNS server is from mine, the FTP server might be unavailable from the links on this site.

Since I'm in Europe it makes not-a-blind-bit-of-difference to me (at least not directly), but the US courts seem to think the GPL is possibly the best thing since various other good stuffs.