March 1, 2007
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Unracked Systems for Move

Tonight unracked the systems so they can be moved to th new place keeping only the web server, music server, my main desktop system and a system I use as my TV in my computer room, even though my main system and other systems have that capability.
Now its time to move but the music server and web server will stay up for a day or so more then I’m gone to figure out my new situation for while and be offliine a while probably.

February 21, 2007
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Packing for Move to New House Possibly Offline for a Period

Well making the move to another house and packing for that move right now. I will rent out my current house. Moving is always a process but I’m not usually much bothered by the process but this time there’s more to this move.
First the impact on my web site will be significant since I host my web site, blogs and Internet music station at home. I will have to break up my services because of the house I’m moving to not having the same services available for various reasons even though its not far from my other house.
I will no longer have 20mb unregulated upload and download Internet service. This will affect performance and availability of my web site and music server. For some reason the developers didn’t equally allow all of the service providers in the area access to placing their infrastructure in place.
My current ISP will continue to hosts my domain but even though the new Internet service will costs more it will be one third of the speed even though its of fiber like my Internet service I’m moving from and they have a lot fewer features. I will not be able to get static IP addresses or
I’m also having issues getting my telephone service turned on for some reason. The only thing the new telecommunication company I’m moving to can say is that they are having facility issues at that address I’m moving to. What an ambiguous statement! Hell let me fix it!
I work at home most of the time so the internet and the phone service is very important and the fact that I’m capped on the Internet even though this provider has the same fiber infrastructure as my previous provider where I had 20mb upload and download really ticks me off!
All these delays are keeping me from moving into the new home so I can get in there and get this place rented out in a timely fashion and thus costing me money!
I may be offline for a while until I swing through the hoops of this new ISP and what I can do to push the envelope of this restricting package they offer.
What is this trend in America now of only doing well enough to edge out someone else who is underachieving? Come on someone try some excellence! That’s why we have idiots in political office and in key positions in companies and government positions there is definitely a decline going on and it may come to a tragic head in our generation if things don’t change. A lot of this is driven by inefficient fascists concerned more about image than substance. Don’t believe that fairytale that fascists are efficient their structures are a deck of cards!
Oh well this is all for the future and I couldn’t pass up the deal on this house as a future investment. I’ll start kicking off my personal business a bit stronger I do on the side.

February 3, 2007
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Runs Coming Along

The runs are not even close to where they should be but the wind is coming back and the legs are getting used to the pounding
I get the legs ready for the pounding of course with some weight training. I get the wind via some cadio on my elyptical trainer when not running.
Now is the time when I will not increase the weight on my leg exercises but pound out some runs to really start moving me towards where I want to be and when I’m strong on my 5 & 6 mile courses I will up the weight when pumping the iron.

January 28, 2007
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New Refrigerator

I picked up a new refrigerator (Kenmore Elite Side by Side) at the Sears clearance center at a very nice price yesterday. My other refrigerator is in passable shape but the compressor was a bit loud. I ‘m sure all my former fridge needed was some cleaning underneath to get it in good shape but since I may be getting one in about a month or so anyway I made the purchase.
My new place will have all white appliances so I wanted get that plus the same features I currently have like water in the door and ice. Well the new fridge has that plus auto lighting in the ice & water area, counts the amount of water dispensed with your choice of measurement, ie.. ounces, cups or liters.
The new fridge also has an ice bucket you can easily take off for parties drinks etc.. and a ton of other great features in the refrigerator area that someone who cooks quite a bit like I do would enjoy like a see through bin in the meat locker so I can remember to cook the meats there or freeze it.
I also finally trimmed the bottom of the cabinet that the refrigerator sits underneath so it could fit fully beneath the spot in the kitchen it was intended to sit in. When I installed my slate rock flooring in the kitchen it raised the floor level just enough so that my former or current fridge would not fit beneath it.
Thank goodness this cabinets is at the end of the wall so the cuts were easier but not easy.
Anyway I now have my former fridge in the garage and my new fridge has taken over after its 24 hour acclimation period.
Now I don’t have to listen to a loud compressor while trying to watch TV or listen to my late night slow jams on my Internet radio show @ http://www.dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/

January 27, 2007
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Out of Shape!

Well I knew I had been lagging in my work outs, ok not working out, so I knew I was out of shape but wow today it really hit home.
Everyone has a barometer to go by that tells them the shape they are in, my barometer is running distance & pace.
Well today my pace for one mile was as bad as I thought it would be but the second mile was horrible.
In fact I’m embarrassed to say that I ran one mile walked a lap on the quarter mile track and then ran my second ragged mile.
Well this is only a start with the running as I have been doing cardio indoors on my elliptical trainer but that’s just for convenience when I cannot get out to run. For me only a run can tell my true physical shape and I have a ways to go before I’m where I like to be.
Even though my strength is not so far out of whack my criteria for being in shape is the formula of high flexibility, strength, cardio mixed in with the mental mind and body are one philosophy.
As I have done since junior high it’s I’m really ramping up to that all encompassing Darryl Hoytt all around shape and the work has begun!
Feel that burn baby burn!

January 23, 2007
by dhoytt
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Once Again Fixed Sendmail Hang on Linux Web Server, Plus Mysql Login Issue

Yes I had been living with a sendmail hang on my web server since I removed my second NIC (network interface card). I do not reboot much but I had some time and thought it would be nice to insure that my web server boots up quickly and with the sendmail hang of several minutes it was not a very fast process.
The first thing I had noticed was that the second NIC eth1 was still being called upon during the boot up process. I had removed the entry from /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices, /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default but it was still being referenced somewhere.
After looking in /dev & /proc for references of eth1 I finally saw a directory in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and found a reference to eth1 with all of the settings of the removed NIC.
I removed the eth1 script text file from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and rebooted the box and no longer had eth1 referenced only eth0 the only physical NIC on the system.
Now even though I no longer had eth1 showing up during boot I still experienced a hang on boot when the system started the sendmail server and client daemons.
Well obviously there was another reason and I found that reason in /etc/hosts. It seems that /etc/hosts did not have my local loopback defined any longer I corrected my local loopback, using one of my other Linux systems as reference to look like the following:
localhost.localdomain localhost
I did the reboot on my system and it came up so fast starting the sendmail daemons along the way I was barely able to see them referenced on the screen during the boot process.
Now that the sendmail issue was fixed there had to be other issues associated with the system resolving correctly and I soon found the issue. Now I could not log into my mysql database instance for my blogs.
Trying to login to my blog I got the infamous Bad ObjectDriver config: Connection error: Access denied for user ‘NNNN’@’ip.adress’ (using password: YES).
I wanted to write this post and could not login initially. This became an issue because I used to have the two NICs and pointed separate databases to be accessed off of the two different NICs but I used the same username but different passwords for that username depending on the NIC you were accessing the database from.
So for this Mysql login issue I went and deleted the Mysql user pointed to the now removed NIC and changed the user to access from the NIC now on the system and changed the file on Movabletype to the password of the username on my current NIC eth0.
Now I can login ok to my blogs as you can see and sendmail no longer hangs on boot! Now its time for me to check my other database instances to insure they work ok as well

December 31, 2006
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Gumbo for the New Year

I’m currently doing prep for Gumbo I’m cooking tomorrow it will be at least two large pots and maybe more. Now when I say large pots one pot is 34 quarts and the smaller pot is 20 quarts. .
I am making my gumbo with large Alaskan King, Crabs, Chicken, sausage, scallops, oysters, clams, and all of the other fixings!
We will also have some collard & Mustard greens, black eyed peas and I think Turkey.

December 25, 2006
by dhoytt
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Fantasy Football Finals 2006

Out of four Fantasy football leagues I’m in the championship game in two of the leagues. The other two leagues I was one position out of the last playoff spot. Coming into Monday night I have the lead in both championship games I am participating in.
The custom private league that I’m the commissioner of I have a commanding lead of about 130 + points that is insurmountable unless the players my opponent has for Monday have legendary games.
The public league is competitive level, where the point system is different and not as flexible I’m up by 3 points and have a very good running back that is the hub of the offense going Monday night and he has the number two or three wide-out on a not so potent passing team. You can never tell though but I like my position.
I haven’t won the custom league we call the BDFL (Big Dogs Fantasy League) I am the commissioner of in a couple of years. In fact my opponent who I’m beating had won the last two years and was going for a 3 peat. He’s not a Lakers fan so I had to squash that!
Anyhow just having fun here about the Fantasy sports I love to play its just nice fun and something to do on the internet that combines sports as well, I try to win but don’t go crazy over it.

December 10, 2006
by dhoytt
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Power Outage On UPS Power

Well my power just went out so now to see how long my UPS’ will keep my systems for my sites up and running.
I hope they stay up long enough for the power to come back on. Time for me to log off and shut a few things down to conserve power.