"Epad Discontinuation" written by News on estrip.org

Category: update

12/02/07 07:32 - 38ºF - ID#42363

Epad Discontinuation

I am going to drop the epad in the new version of estrip. I may offer some other substitute in the future but it doesn't look used enough to continue maintaining it. So if you have something in your epad, copy it out soon.

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Category: party

12/01/07 01:39 - 19ºF - ID#42352

e:strip Holiday Pot Luck

Please sign up in the comments of this post if you're coming to the (e:strip) holiday dinner, to be held Thursday evening, December 13th (two weeks away) at 24 Linwood. It's a pot luck, so when you sign up include what you'd like to bring. If you're not handy in the kitchen, volunteer for drinks or something purchased from the store.

We'll also be collecting canned goods to bring to the food bank, so if you're feeling charitable bring a little something for those who are less fortunate, there will be a box near the entry way for collection.

Hope to see you all there!

jim writes at 12:12:25 12/13/07 - Comment #29227: around 7pm

carolinian writes at 11:37:09 12/13/07 - Comment #29226: At what time does the dinner (roughly) begin?

fellyconnelly writes at 07:16:11 12/12/07 - Comment #29176: ok guys i'm out. i keep forgetting to post here - but i'm working the close shift in east aurora... pooey.

brit writes at 06:52:19 12/11/07 - Comment #29158: I mean dessert, but maybe not...I am going to wegmans now to see what they have.. Gaylynne says she will make not spicy ones as well as matt freindly ones and even non spicy mat friendly ones..you get the point

brit writes at 06:14:33 12/11/07 - Comment #29150: gaylynne will bring spicy green enchillas, matt friendly and chicken....I will attempt a desert of some kind. see you then

mrmike writes at 11:31:44 12/11/07 - Comment #29129: I'm out, got a work dysfunction I got to go which won't be nearly as much fun. I have to go which makes me want to go even less. See, Imk, it's catching.

jim writes at 11:21:30 12/11/07 - Comment #29128: I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to sparkle motion, Zobar.

zobar writes at 11:16:35 12/11/07 - Comment #29127: crappo, I think me and (e:dragonlady7) are out. Roller derby practice and preparing for the calendar signing/christmas party on Sat.

- Z

metalpeter writes at 04:45:13 12/10/07 - Comment #29082: What time should I be there I ordered the Cake I'll be bringing. I don't want to be to early nor do I want to be late. On a side not I love Lasagna, however I can't eat to much of it so thanks for making that.

drew writes at 04:11:42 12/10/07 - Comment #29081: what's this "we" stuff. Did you make a lasagna, (e:janelle)?

janelle writes at 03:18:10 12/10/07 - Comment #29080: we're bringing lasagna.

carolinian writes at 03:13:48 12/10/07 - Comment #29079: I'll bring a flan and thai peanut chicken linguine.

metalpeter writes at 05:54:14 12/03/07 - Comment #28807: It is kinda funny that what (e:imk2) says is what I'm affraid will happen with me. I plan on being there and hopefully with some kind of cake or pie or ice cream or something along those lines.

janelle writes at 10:32:46 12/02/07 - Comment #28761: Awesome, (e:Jim)!

jim writes at 10:04:38 12/02/07 - Comment #28760: Cheese potatoes is a traditional dish from my homeland.

janelle writes at 09:39:05 12/02/07 - Comment #28757: It's cool Jim. Drew can make something else. I should have never said anything. It was kind of rude. Sorry!

imk2 writes at 09:02:23 12/02/07 - Comment #28755: as soon as i say that i'm in, i won't want to go. so i'll try to do it, but i can't make any promises. :(

jim writes at 08:10:59 12/02/07 - Comment #28754: We'll think of something else if you like.

janelle writes at 07:58:50 12/02/07 - Comment #28753: I think Drew and I will go. we'd like to bring a cheese-potatoe casserole thing, but it looks like Jim and James are bringing something along that lines...so, we'll see.

mike writes at 09:36:04 12/01/07 - Comment #28716: i'm in, i will bring mini cheescake desserts

jim writes at 09:20:37 12/01/07 - Comment #28714: Sure thing, guests are fine :) Encouraged, actually.

tinypliny writes at 09:02:04 12/01/07 - Comment #28713: And maybe raita (a tangy yoghurt dish, just in case the former thing is too spicy.) I am not going to tone down anything for anyone. >8) Hee Hee.

tinypliny writes at 09:00:03 12/01/07 - Comment #28712: I am in, and could I bring a guest with me? :)

I will be bringing a spicy potato-garbanzo beans-mint-coriander-tamarind-jaggery street food from north-west India.

jim writes at 05:04:10 12/01/07 - Comment #28708: (e:James) and I are in, and we're going to bring cheese potatoes and also a big mixed greens salad.

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Category: server

11/28/07 11:13 - 30ºF - ID#42319

Question for the peeps?

Does anyone have any interest in me moving their loudfeeder podcast over to the new server? Did anyone even use it? Same with gather, does anyone have anything important in there or can I just start fresh when i eventually port a new version of those packages?

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Category: server

11/21/07 11:54 - 39ºF - ID#42230

One step close to the new site

The newest surebert toolkit is ready but not public yet. However, this means the new server is one step close to launching. I have had it on since I got it, and I am happy to report it is running perfectly - no lemon here. I still can't believe the deal we got.

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Category: server

11/07/07 07:08 - 36ºF - ID#42032

The New Server Arrives

It finally came today and it seems pretty great. I am going to keep it here a bit and install and test and upgrade, then soon I will swap old the old server and we will be on the new one. Thank you everyone who helped make this possible.

I still can't believe the specs - 2x dual core 3.0 ghz, 2x73 hardware raided 15k drives, 1333mhz front side bus, 4GB of ram, redundant power supply, dual nics.

It was in perfect shape.

It is so quiet that honestly, I think our Xbox is louder.

I can't believe I got it for ~$1800 considering its cost for the same exact specs if I bought it on the Dell site right now $6,000+

I transfered ownership on the Dell website for the warranty and service plan which runs through 2010.

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Category: estrip

11/05/07 10:56 - 46ºF - ID#41993

Traffic

Here at estrip we usually get about 500 unique real visitors coming from javascript enabled browsers. But recently the number started to climb close to 1,000. Its weird there are no new very exceptional referrers and most traffic is still coming from google or direct.

This last month we had 23,000 visitors.

Imagine if there were some other incoming links. Anyone have any they could put up somewhere, there estrip link code on the front page of the site.

The only out of the ordinary referrer is a google images search for britney spears pussy. Which brings my journal even with adult content filtering on. But that only counts for 3% of visitors. Which is only 30 out of 1000. Although, I still can't believe we rank so high for it. Check it out or try for yourself

. Look at (e:mike) in there, lol.

We are on a general upward trend. Here we are since last April when I started tracking with google analytics.

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Category: server

11/05/07 10:10 - 46ºF - ID#41991

The server is on its way

11/5/2007 6:32:00 PM ORIGIN SCAN WATERTOWN, CT US
11/5/2007 3:56:00 PM BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED US

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Category: server

11/02/07 02:17 - 52ºF - ID#41942

Bought the New Server - $1869

We got us a Dell 1950 server with:
2 x 73GB 15k SAS drives Raid - upgradeable to 1TB
2 x 3.0 GHz dual core xeons - upgradeable to Quad core
4GB ram - upgradeable up to 32GB
1333 mhz front size bus
redundant power
RHEL certified
Small form factor - although as Ajax pointed out this doesn't matter for us, unless we are in a rack someday.

4 hours of onsite service from dell before Jan 2008
4 more hours of onsite service from dell before jan 2010
gold service warranty till 2010

Best of all it all comes from one place to my house and I already paid for it. With shipping it came to $1,869. Selling the vaio laptop for (e:ladycroft) or (e:drew) will defray the cost. If anyone else didn't donate and still wants to, feel free - I am going to leave the message up for a bit.

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Category: server

11/02/07 01:16 - 38ºF - ID#41930

Okay I think I need a little more

I think I underestimated the price a little bit. So we are back to 78.9%. I could buy a cheaper supermicro server and hope for the best as it is not certified for Centos 5 and has no warranty, or spend a little more and get a used, certified centos compatible server with a 2 year warranty and drives in it already. The dell server is definitely something that would work for a long time.

The difference, however, is me spending another $462 dollars.

At least we won't need a windows license!

If anybody still wants to donate, now is the time. I might just have to pay for it up front as the auction ends in 13 hours!

Also, if anyone want to buy my old Vaio s360 cuteass laptop (e:paul,31660) I am willing to part with it for $500 to make up the extra money. It is still a great computer. It was around $2000 when I got it less than 2 years ago.

On the other hand I might just go ahead and risk it on another supermicro

,that is what we have right now. But what if it doesn't work, it owuld be such a waste of money.

news writes at 11:07:04 11/02/07 - Comment #27375: The laptop has 1 GB of ram.

The reason I do not build my own ajay, is because I don't have any extra time. I built the last one. It was fine. I ordered all the parts separately, put in the chips, the paste hte ram, the hardrive. Screwed everything together, etc.

It takes time. No matter how easy it is. I am going to be dealing with several vendors for the parts, more time shopping, the time to put it together. Waiting for everything to come separately and then pickig it all up from the post office at night because I can't let them leave the server parts outside my house. Its not worth it when I can get a perfectly good used one for not that much more and have a two year warranty on it. I don't know if you ever had a Dell machine under warranty but hey basically service everything quickly.

I am already going to be doing so much software configuration.

As for the form factor you are right, I don't need a 1U in fact I would rather have a 2U for expandability as ease of working on it. However, the Dell I was looking at is not new but a used one, that comes how it is.

When I priced out a new supermicro with CPU and hardrives, the used supermicro one I put the link to was cheaper.

drew writes at 08:41:10 11/02/07 - Comment #27364: (e:Drew) is interested. It still has the RAM that you added? Anything else we should know about it?

janelle writes at 08:20:13 11/02/07 - Comment #27363: (e:Drew) might be interested in a laptop.

mrmike writes at 07:21:11 11/02/07 - Comment #27362: I'd be interested as well

ladycroft writes at 06:08:36 11/02/07 - Comment #27361: i would be interested in your laptop!

ajay writes at 01:39:41 11/02/07 - Comment #27357: Why not build your own? You don't need the 1U formfactor. You could build a kickass machine for about $1K.You're most probably I/O-bound anyways; so load up on gobs of RAM and get a scraming-fast Quad-core puppy.

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Category: bug fix

11/01/07 09:43 - 46ºF - ID#41918

Leopard multifile upload fix

Adobe labs released a new mac flash player today that address the file upload problem with leopard and flash player that I reported in (e:news,41833). Now all you leopard users including myself can go back to using the normal file upload system!

Just download and install it. Make sure you have you browser off when installing. It will prompt you about that.

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