complich8′s journal

*sigh* Subject says it all. /dev/hda (the newer system drive, recycled old 120 gigger) is throwing occasional seek errors, and just incited a reboot of the server. /dev/hdh (recently retired) is throwing smart errors. I’m goign to … err … move away from using those drives for anything important now

So I’m doing the usual stuff, updating systems at work… and ran into some unusual results… Basically, gentoo just marked gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4-r3 stable, and on three of my systems (all webserver-setups), I got compile failures (see behind the cut for the spammy failure message). Well, it turns out, gcc 3.4.6 can’t compile [...]

So I just watched a channel9 video about Microsoft’s Sharepoint 2007 last night. It was interesting, how they’ve basically rolled their CMS product and their collab product into the same suite, and basically turned sharepoint from what seems to me to be a mediocre, spotty product into one that could be reasonably useful. Now, microsoft [...]

So, back in the world of wordpress (like world of warcraft, but with much, much worse graphics), I was getting really sick of the whole “not able to save posts cleanly” thing. I mean … it worked, it was just really annoying. So I did what I’ve done in the past: I smacked down a [...]

So, it looks like I get to get some new toys… Turns out, the proposal I wrote up made some people very happy … even though I didn’t even remember writing it! Medium-term memory? Who needs it! So, I get to plan on about $8000 across two servers. They’re going to be database/content servers for [...]