Could not read tty from store
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory I see this message a bit more frequently then I would like bopping around from server to server. Generally the problem is that xenconsoled is not running. The fix: /usr/sbin/xenconsoled
CMYK to RGB
On of the real beasts I’ve fought for a few years is getting ImageMagick to do a good CMYK to RGB conversion of files. In the past I’ve messed with the color profiles but always came out on the losing end of the deal. This week though I got all my image conversion to look […]
In the Cloud
Today I got my first EC2 instance running. It took a total of about two hours from registering for the service to a point where I had a full CentOS 5 install up and going serving out a static web page. Responsiveness of my server was fast ( even at the cheapest level ) and […]
good day
I managed to do three “got my shit to work” victory dances today. Yes, I actually do a physical dance, almost as goofy as most NFL players endzone dances. The first was a minor thing, I got the MyBook mounted to the Logs server via USB and started to move off 500GBs of access logs […]
big numbers
Thursday is sons and daughter day at work so I was thinking I should get some sort of number of the amount of traffic we do in a certain period of time to throw out. I knew we were sitting at around 50 million page views per month for the site, but we get a […]
New Facility
Going to the new facility we cut down to four racks of space which was made very much possible by moving from our old 3U 1850 and DL380s we purchased in around 2001, to new DL360 G5s which are 1U. I can run about 4 virtual servers of similar memory and processor on the newer […]
Facilitating
So it looks like we’ll be moving to CoSentry up north in KC near the airport for our new hosting facility, since the location we are at now will be closing down in a few months. That means as the newly appointed sysadmin I also am plotting out the move to the new hosting facility. […]
MacBook
So we got MacBook Pros at work for our latest round of laptops. Being that we are and equal oppertunity employer we had the choice between new Dells or the Macs and we thought we’d give the macs a try. As soon as I got mine I installed Parallels and got a Ubuntu and XP […]
Spot On
Sometimes Dilbert is just spot on. Today was perfect.