Musings of a Daydreaming Wanderer » IT Mangement

Faster, Better, Stronger

Daffodilistic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:01:09 +0000

Have moved through two hosts during the changeover period from Dreamhost. The previous one’s support was atrocious, coupled with dodgy caching settings for their hosts (although hosting with them is dirt cheap at $1.66 a month given the current exchange rates), so I moved over to a local server now for $8/month. Was struggling to get [...]

Graduation Soon…Again

Daffodilistic — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:17:03 +0000

Back from a long hiatus after my Final Year Project completion.Spent the last 24 hours before project presentation at a friend’s place near Lavender, with the Singapore F1 Race in progress as well. It was a good and bad thing, though – loud motor noises kept us awake, but unable to focus on the [...]

A Nightmare In The Server Room – Old Hardware

Daffodilistic — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:57:31 +0000

Spent the last 2 days at work trying to install Ubuntu Server on an old IBM NetFinity M7000 M10 server (2x Pentium III Xeon 500MH, 512MB RAM, 100GB RAID-5 SCSI), and although installation was successful, booting the server was not. Tried many ways to troubleshoot the problem, and finally found something interesting – Fedora Core [...]

Busy, Busy Days

Daffodilistic — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:30:43 +0000

Sorry for the long delay in posting, its been almost a month since I last posted. Been really busy with the final year project, and the prototype was only submitted last Friday – hope that the assessment would be a good one. On top of that, my subordinate got into a minor motorcycle accident two weeks [...]

Drowning In IT

Daffodilistic — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:03:58 +0000

Well, it’s been a busy two weeks – most of the time spent on either calling vendors, surfing the internet to check out product specifications, and also budgeting at work, and in my spare time, PSP programming and doing the project proposal for my FYP, amongst other things. Its amazing how fast new stuff can come [...]