halcy.de v4 » Version four-point-oh and counting.Two weeks!

So I got me new hardware, and made a few new holes in my case to fix the HDD cages properly since the new motherboard is bigger, and now the server is finally up and running. Only thing left to do is clean up, which I’ll do tomorrow. Some pictures of the whole thing (Click on images for large version):

Drilling holes

Putting in the hardware, with a nice view of the battlefield

The result, with side-mounted hard drives.

So apparently, several things in my server broke.

First, the HDD. It’s now pretty much done for, but that did not worry me much since I had a spare HDD, had backups and was even able to get whole the system off the old HDD and transfer it to the new one, improving partitioning while I did, which amazingly worked perfect first try (Now there’s a seperate /home XFS partition).

But, something else doesn’t work anymore either. It’s one of or multiple of the graphics card (Which was broken before - some part of the circuitry for the S-Video out got literally fried), the CPU, or the motherboard.

Since I should do that anyways, I’ll use this opportunity to upgrade those parts to shiny new ones (And improve the working of my self-built HDD cage). Till then, here’s halcy.de, served by a temporary PC into which I just plugged its HDD.

The system will be down again as soon as I get the new stuff to switch over, but should be very stable after that.

So apparently, he pissed of someone with a botnet, who went on and killed off his tumblelog. Which means I think you should read what pissed of those people and what they wanted to suppress, and what he has to say about that.