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I guess I forgot to post last year.... sigh.

They should all be done burning by now... hopefully not to just flare up again next month. We need rain.

I got a good deal on a Ryzen 5 3500 6-Core system... so as of yesterday, that. Before then it was on a 4-core 4th gen i5. It runs Minecraft and Plex too.. so it's not completely overkill

After looking at the docker option... it seems like too much work for almost zero gain. At least for something already working.

I'm thinking of moving to a dark theme for the forum. Any thoughts? Like this one.  http://smftheme.byethost18.com/index.php?theme=5&i=1


Edit. I installed a few themes to test. One is a dark theme and the other has a dark-mode option.
Go here to try them out: https://forum.randomland.net/index.php?action=profile;area=theme

I am far overdo for some adventure!

The DNS update script wasn't working for a while. So no one could get to the site. It's fixed now.

I've been wanting to learn Docker better. So I might re-do the webserver as a bunch of docks(?) on a single machine rather them all the sites under a single Apache install. Put them all in their own little pocket I guess.

Moved to a new host machine again. Now we have 4 cores of Intel 4th gen I5 power.

It seemed silly to have a machine for just the Minecraft server. So now everything is on there and the tiny little lenovo can be Corbins desktop.

Hope you are all doing well and staying healthy.

Crazy world out there these days.

Sure! That would be fun to learn.

I need to set up alerts as well so I know when things are down. And stop using windows as the host OS for the VMs, it's janky and prone to update without warning.

I also need to update the forum software (Or switch to another set of forum software all together if anyone has a preference). That's what started the whole OS update for the webserver. Making sure I had everything else up to date first.

Server was apparently offline for a while.... I doubt anyone noticed.

When I upgraded Debian for the WWW machine it apparently broke PHP. So after reinstalling MySQL, apache2 and PHP it works again!

We need an excuse to use this again.


And whatever happened to building robots?

[13w]

Upgraded hardware!

Lenovo M73 tiny - CPU G3220T - 8GB ram. (it's temping to get a low power xeon for it... but that would cost more than the rest of the system - and it's really not needed.)

Idles at a whopping 13w (twice what the pogoplug ate.... but almost 10x the CPU power and 32x the RAM. (It's also the NAS, Plex and Nextcloud server for the house)

Also, thanks to Lets Encrypt, everything is now automatically forwarded to HTTPS. Apparently images are not... I don't know if I care. I might look at it when I have time.

Let me know if you have any issues. Or if you even visit...

The Yukon is in dire need of a new paint job. It kinda has been since I got it... but that is beside the point. There are places on the roof where it's down to the metal and starting to rust a little.

So not being very skilled or wanting to spend a couple hundred on proper automobile paint I figured I would use some good 'ol 'Rusto paint and put a UV rated clear over that for some longevity.

While I am at it I will hit the grill, both bumpers and the rocker-panels with spray-on-bedliner. Mostly just because. And I think it will look good. I might even do the wheels.

Courtney and I have been making some color mock-ups in photo-paint-gimp-shop.

Here they are for your consideration and criticism.

Here is an interesting little discussion on the topic. Complete with people telling them why they did it wrong

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/6qflp1/diy_submersible/

Gallery linked at the top of that page.

Man, I know I have this  running on a Potato, but ever since the SMF software upgrade it has been slow as molasses.

For now.... I'm sure I will break it again soon.

It's comforting to know it's here though.

The site was broken after a failed upgrade of the SMF forum software. After a full reinstall (re-using the existing database) we are back up. I hope the theme will be back soon. I can't stand all this white.

Also... I seem to not have all the attached images and files from posts anymore. Not many are missing... I think mostly the pictures of the roof-rack I was designing. But if anyone has a backup of the forum with an attachment directory with a files starting with numbers higher than 258_XXXXXX then you have more than I do ATM. I have backups somewhere... if I can find them still.

So dead here...