Tag Archives: Hardware

Adapt, adopt, improve!

Monday, August 31, 2009 – 00:00

I have to apologize to everybody who’s been unable to visit my blog the past week or so. There’s been some downtime, but I hope that the issues are sorted out by now. Here’s the story behind the outages. The whole summer I’ve been planning a major overhaul of the servers I’m running in the [...]

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Radio equipment

Friday, December 1, 2006 – 18:39

So we finally got started installing various radio and navigation equipment on Elida V. I and Robert attached the various devices to the navigation cabin on the deckhouse. We have a lot of radios, and a lot of antennas, but this is because the equipment is heavily regulated by the maritime administration. Being a passenger [...]

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Server upgrades

Saturday, June 24, 2006 – 15:09

Since the rest of the family is away during midsummer, I have taken this occasion as a chance to do some upgrades to the server park. I have replaced the router/webserver/dns box with a brand new Ubuntu installation, which will be easier to manage than the old gentoo system. That system had been running for [...]

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New DSL modem, should fix connectivity issues

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 – 09:00

Yesterday I bought a new DSL modem, a cheap D-Link modem with no fancy functions, to replace an old, faulty speedtech modem. The old modem had a tendency to fail silently for several hours and then come back online again. This did of course cause that this blog got unavailable for long periods of time, [...]

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Lysboj is back in the game

Friday, November 25, 2005 – 16:30

Yes, she has been left unused under my desk for a longer while now, but yesterday I decided to plug her back in. I nuked the old Gentoo installation and installed the oh-so-nice Ubuntu Breezy. For all who don’t know; Lysboj (Swedish for “buoy that lights”) is my own desktop computer, a PII 350 that [...]

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Server upgrade

Sunday, November 20, 2005 – 20:27

Upgraded the server today, everything except the harddrive is new! broach.se in now powered by a much more powerful Dell OptiPlex with a PIII 1GHz CPU and 256 MB ram. Nice!

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