Archives: 2001 October
The Outer Limits of Server Maintenance
October 25th, 2001, No Comments
Today I’m bringing down zanti, our Sun Ultra10 that runs Red Hat Linux 6.2. It’s main job is being a PostgreSQL server. Zanti has been up for 597 days but now it’s time to do some major upgrades. I’ll probably switch it back to Solaris as well since Red Hat no longer supports the Sparc [...]
State Fair of Texas 2001
October 22nd, 2001, No Comments
The 2001 Texas State Fair ended this weekend but not before Susan and I spent the day there seeing the sites and eating the usual variety of State Fair Food. I was pleased to see that funnel cakes were still available and selling well in spite of their being covered with mysterious white powder. As [...]
Philip Glass Ensemble in Austin
October 15th, 2001, No Comments
Susan and I have been back in town for a few days after a week in Austin to hear several live performances of the Philip Glass Ensemble. I’ve been meaning to post a summary of our adventures and here it is. We left for Austin on the 2nd, opting to drive rather than fly. It [...]
Chickens, Kittens, and an Opossum
October 1st, 2001, No Comments
We spent a fairly quite weekend doing some work on the lawn. Susan did some weeding and I trimmed some dead branches from one of the trees. Saturday night we went to the Dallas Symphony. This week it was Wagner’s Overture to the Flying Dutchman, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, and a work for Orchestra and [...]
