Since adding the 85ah deep cycle battery to the old conext900 has gone well, I’ve decided to move forward with the project and install and modify a larger UPS. I searched ebay and lost my first few auctions, finally I have won a dell DLA3000RM2U, which is reportedly new in the box, and so it […]
I ran a 60 odd watt load on the autozone powered UPS for 24 hours or so…no issues, and lots of run-time being reported via ‘nut’. So I moved it over to a bigger load. Here is what is being reported currently: root# upsc autozone battery.alarm.threshold: 0 battery.charge: 096.0 battery.charge.restart: 00 battery.date: 10/07/02 battery.runtime: 1320 […]
At the office we picked up a QNAP TS-809 Pro Turbo, and loaded it with 8 1.5T drives. The QNAP is an interesting, if a little pricey device. Essentially it’s a mini-itx core 2 duo MB with 2 Gig-Es, some usb’s and lots of sata ports. 8 of which are in nice little hot-swap trays. In […]
In addition to dirving seperately to the mall whenever I need to go, now everybody and their brother also has a blog or five. Hence, it’s about time I start an online journal as well. For a long time I considered the whole concept somewhere between childish and uberdorky, however I’ve reconsidered. Though many (most) […]
I have a hodge-podge of UPSes, many are loaded to 80%+ capacity, and many are > 2 years old. As such my runtime during power failure isn’t even enough to actually shut down any of the machines. Instead of buying some new ones, I decided to experiment with using a ‘car battery’. These UPSes all […]
This weekend I upgraded some of my home servers to 10.6(.1) server, using the developer keys. I wouldn’t say that it went ‘without a hitch’ or even smoothly, but overall it wasn’t bad. The first machine to get 10.6 was the one with the most complex setup. It was an OD master, mail server, and […]