The 4th of July went really good. Jane and I went to the lake near Sonora with family. We had the jet boat with the inter-tube and wake board. I didn't get a chance to try out the wake board, but next time I will. Jane was doing really well one it.

We also ate and ate and ate. There is always lots of good food at Uncle Rich and Aunt Jane's. They pull all the plugs when they have guests over. (thanks!)

It's nice to have a rest once in a while.

I got the new hard drive for my dev server. I tried and tried, but it was DOA. Gesh... I have good luck I'll tell you. But lucky for me, Johnny had a 8GB drive for me to use. I've got that in there and I'm configuring it now. I'll be shipping the bad one back for a refund.

My WRIP died today also. Totally dead. Sucks. It's going back tomorrow also.

WRIP from Hell
So I have this WRIP from Net Nimble. It doesn't work right. It locks up everyday. I can't go anywhere because I have to go power cycle it when it locks up. So I have Net Nimble send me a replacement. I get the replacement and it does not work at all. It turns on, but the radio's don't work. So it looks like my 4th of July is shot.... Thanks to Net Nimble.

Ryan's Big BMX Movie
Check this out foo foo: Ryan's Big BMX Movie(3.5MB). This is some of the video that we filmed when Ryan was here last weekend. He is getting really good on his bike. It was really fun to have him over...even though he got his car stuck in our front yard. ;-)

DNS is here!
I've got my DNS server up and running. It's looking good. I've got all my domains transferred to it now. Finally, I have total control over my internet connection. I love my T1.

The Day After
It's Sunday night and all seems well. Then a stream of HDD Unrecoverable messages few across the console. CRASH...All was gone. Going back to the start....

Friday was my T1 install day. I installed the T1 system and tweaked it to perfection. Took all day to do it. For the weekend I had buddies coming over to hang out. Friends I had not seen in a while. So I decided that I would do my backup of the system on Monday after everyone has left. I figured it would take most of the day to do.

After my friends left I finally get back to the Office to check things out. I notice that my email is not working, so I check the console. The hard drive crashed. I'm thinking that I can just run FSCK on it and fixed it right up. So I reboot it.....Bad...All bad.

The hard drive was toast. I had lost everything that I did on Friday. I'm thinking to my self, no big deal. I'll setup a new system and restore the data from the 2nd hard drive. I have a script that backs up the data each night to the 2nd hard drive.

Bummer... The script stopped backing up in Jan 2002. Not only that, but I didn't have my email archive included in the script. I just lost 5 years of email and all of my development code. I lost all my user accounts. I lost everything.

Lucky for me, on friday I moved my web directories to the new web server. I retained my Billing system and web sites. So the job was to restore the T1 router, user accounts from the billing system, the DNS server, and my email server.

Well, 12 hours later I have the system all up and running. I'm missing my email and my dev code. Not too bad. I did loose a client web site that I'll have to re do. Still hope.

I also checked a few sites to find a hard drive recovery company. Looks like it will be about $700 to recover the data from the hard drive. I'll keep checking around and see if I can get a better price. I sure would like to get my email back.

For now... Time to restore my dev system.... and a better backup system.

Old HDD's are not good to use
Well, I have another HDD going out. The HDD I put in my new Dev server is bad. I just need to break down and buy some new HDD's.

Ryan Is Da Man
Ryan showed up last night. Here is a photo of where he parked his car. So today we are going to tear up Gardnerville skate park. Later I'll put my new brakes on and get the hookups foo foo. Well, it's breakfast time now... I'm out of here.

T1 Madness
I'm on the T1! This is so nice. I went from 14kB/s to 170kB/s. Awsome! Now it's time to move my web sites over from the Webentory server. Another fun job.

My Chrome Cube
Check it out! I chromed my cube. This is way awesome. My cube rocks now. It turned out OK, but I got a few wrinkles in it when I put the chrome tape on. Other than that, it's perfect.