The Quiet Won Log

This is a run-on page keeping a log of all maintenance on most machines for your enjoyment.
for the newest information go to the bottom.
All the formats are in (Y/yy/mm/dd) EST/EDT.


log entry Y100514-16:10
Marks-iBook G3 900MHz 14"
UpTime ~ 5 days 00:20:00
I just finished an update moving from 256 MB to 640 MB the max that this system can handle,
this was a long-overdue upgrade that I wanted to do for a long time.
I also upgraded my moms iBook G3 900MHz 13"? to the same.
while I was in there i decided to take out my Airport card, it hasn't been playing nicely with my WPA network so most of the time I had it off.
I decided to take it out because I figured this Web server probably isn't going anywhere that it would require Wi-Fi and that's mostly because....
this is one of the infamous G3's with a video chip problem that causes no video to be outputted either by built-in display or VGA out.
( Google it + iBook G3 Video chip problem ).

log entry Y100824-17:20
New to the site a WEB CAM.
when it is on line.

log entry Y110607-23:10
Going off-line for an attempt at drive repartitioning, to give me more space on the Web server.
because after all this Web server at one point was my primary laptop
and thus most of the space is allocated for a data partition and not for the operating system partition.
I will be restarting into target disk mode and using a FireWire cable to another Mac.
and i will be running defrag and Drive genius repartitioning software.
UpTime = 47d, 6h, 27m

log entry Y110608-00:37
Defrag finished, moving on to the repartitioning.

log entry Y110608-17:35
Finally finished repartitioning.

log entry Y110808-02:00{a}
Went off-line approximately at 2 AM.
local access only.
i had to move the home server to a new location, in in other words I had to move.

log entry Y110810-00:57
The final System shutdown.
UpTime 62d 7h 20m

log entry Y110813
Moved into new house.
went with no Internet for multiple months.
Found out how badly frontier is/was running the mess purchased from Verizon.
went with no Internet for multiple months, again.
Switched to "Hughes–net" got ripped off on cable ( and the service ),
(web 125' free. phone 25'. installer 1/ft for 300', oh not 300' it was 178', but paid $300 personal check! deposited on a holiday, no way to cancel!).
and got "FAP"ted to death. no public address on top of being proxied through a compression server for no point, and i was still using just twice++++ as much data.
eventually switch to AT&T cellular, no public address either.

log entry Y121029-31
ALL Systems shutdown!
mostly due to the lack of electricity and the need to conserve battery power, A.K.A the UPS and to conserve Internet connectivity.
it was due to Super-Storm Sandy and the need to pack away every single bit of property from the house just in case.
and this being a home server it had to be evacuated, and living abnormally close to the Potomac River at that....
thankfully the house came out OK, but the water came up to about 10 feet from a retaining wall, which had a gap of 5 feet to the house.
and don't forget the satellite dish on a 8? foot pole which went underwater!
( the dish did still work afterwards, however the service "Hughes–net" was still just as crappy! ).
and that went out during the storm, before it went under but still no kidding,
( like somewhere near the beginning before it started to even rain heavy, no prior connectivity problems ).
AT&T was up the entire time, until I ran out of battery power, "?HOW?".

log entry Y140224-02:14
I Just finished a three-day stint at setting up a VM file upload container with direct directory linking.
so one day when I get a public IP address again, then I'll be up with a file upload capability.
( public and private, { the public one will certainly be interesting, can you say send me malware and viruses!}).
except for now I don't have a use for it vs. a handful of years ago there was a legitimate use to suck up remote files from somebody.
i should also mention that at some point I dropped back in my Airport card, due to the need of having a backup network interface.
and discovering that the original Airport card does not like WPA2 encryption and dropping to regular WPA creates a normal environment for it.
for many months have past. things have been on, things have been off. things have been hear things have been their.
and In time has been lost. drives have been upgraded, drives have been backed up, erased, recovered and restored, etc.

log entry Y240527-16:30
Well let's see a lot as happened I've probably should read the last comment I think some things happen between now and 2014.
Well unless I'm missing a version that I didn't upload which might be I guess I'll start here.
I got Comcast Business the best of the worst, but at least Support is really good.
I originally had a 350 MB connection down but running through my PF sense router with 100mb NIC caused a 'slight' bottleneck camping out at 95mb and well I bought a new Netgate appliance in 2020.
Life caused all sorts of stupid stuff so I would take it off dig it out try to configure things get it kind of working put it on the back burner, put it on the cold burner put it in the freezer take it out again rinse and repeat.
Until earlier this year when it started acting a little funny and due to other changes in my life, I suddenly had 6 months of free time... it's amazing what you can do after you get called a liar.
So I made a hard switch to the new box and said I'm gonna reset it and reconfigure it and just get online and now I got 350mb down.
then about a month ago they decided they wanted to upgrade my service with the latest contract renewal so 650 here I come, unfortunately the stupid upload is still 25 meg!
The iBook is still running although more like running out of space! I've used the heck out of it.
it's so nice to just be able to drop a file on there and be like here's the link. local transfer at 100 meg network speed is almost instantaneous on my end for large videos and then it can trickle down at the other end.
The thing is showing a little bit of of its age more due to the graphical defect, every so often I find that it has just completely crashed and hast to have a hard reboot.
Considering it's sitting on my floor right now for the past few years I could accidentally literally give it a hard re-'boot'.
This is probably due to the BGA chip shifting with temperature and occasional physical interruptions just enough to interrupt things.
Messing around with VLANs since I finally have use for them and well concepts are easy however I usually end up second-guessing my configurations due to all the misinformation around.
On the upside I got a new access point and retired the airport express AC units which I got a 3? years ago used and were starting to act a little weird as well.
New laptops new desktops. I bought a slim form factor PC with the intention of migrating the website over for a better and worse.
I've been trying to cut down on my constant power usage so the router, switch, AP (Now) and back up WWAN unit are all 12V (except for the 9V for the switch with DC-DC converter).
The plan is to feed all of this with a AC 12v 20A power supply connected to a battery protection unit, batteries and boost converter to deliver a constant regulated 12V.
basically a DC UPS so I would get a gain in less efficiency loss an automatic always on fall-over.
For the moment this is also feeding my ham radio, finally got license 2? years ago.
And everything is distributed with power pole connectors, to distribution panels to 5.5mm or appropriate interface cables.
where have they been all my life there's so many connectors that should just get replaced with these things.

log entry Y240530-00:30
Well I finally did it I finally removed Spaces that I had in file names for some reason.
I don't know why way back when I had spaces in my image file names, I tried to not do that with the HTML files and for the most part I have obeyed that rule. But somehow my images slipped through.
I also did some general tidying up which is why the landing page is a bit off right now I have to fix the overlay on the matrix.