I wonder if I will ever be able to beat this record…
Today is the day that I finally had to reboot my Linux router. It was able to stay running for 390 days and 57 minutes. I was able to keep it running through multiple hour long power outages, migrating ISPs, and countless other daily issues. Alas, a problem with the hard drive caused the system to start haning any time it needed to access the drive, causing the internet to become practically unuseable. It took a reboot, disk check, and some error correction to get it working again. It worked fine after that for 15 minutes or so, but now I’m back to the same problem. A temporary solution might be cutting the bittorrent sharing of the new ubuntu release. There might be too many open connections for the router to handle in ram, or it might be trying to cache something. I’ll update when I’ve figured it out.
Computers
Firewall, ipcop, linux
I’ve recently reflashed my T-mobile G1 with a hacked firmware version. This new version of the software grants full root access to the phone and lets you do some really cool things with it. For starters the customized release of R33 comes with a multitouch enabled browser as well as automatic tilt detection. In my observations the entire OS actually seemed to respond slightly faster than the official release. The real reason I decided to get root access on the phone was for the WiFi tethering ability. Once you have root access on your phone all you have to do is install a free app from the market place and tap a button. Suddenly I can share my 3G connection with my laptop (and all of my friend’s laptops as well). The guide on Gizmodo was very helpful, as was the guide on the XDA forums.
Computers
android, G1, linux, T-Mobile
Today marks the first time I have had a computer reach 100 days of uptime. This same system had once made it to 94 days of uptime, but I had to physically move the system to it’s current location. The above screenshot was taken a few minutes ago from my IPCOP firewall/router and demonstrates just how reliable linux can be. My webserver that is hosting all of my websites (and physically located imediately bellow my router) is on it’s 88th day of uptime. I’ll post again when my web server reaches it’s first 100 days of uptime as well. I wonder how much power it has consumed in those 100 days…
Computers, This Site
ipcop, linux, uptime
I’ve had some free time the past few days, so I started up one of my old projects: building a PBX. It turns out that my project server was several versions out of date, so I had to download the latest Trixbox ISO. Trixbox is an open source operating system and software stack that makes Asterisk very easy to manage. I pulled out an older model FXS 4 port module that was made by Audiocodes and spent several hours trying to get it to work. After much frustration I now have a working Asterisk system. The next step is to connect it into my existing home wiring, but that is proving difficult. All of the wiring in this house (including phone lines) seems to have been an after thought, as nothing was connected or routed properly. Go figure. It’ll take me a while to figure out where everything goes.
Computers
asterisk, fxs, linux, trixbox
Clonezilla is a utility similar to Norton Ghost with a few key differences. First of all, Clonezilla is open source, which means that it is free to download and modify. It is also very good at what it does. You can make an image of your computer using an external hard drive, a windows folder shared over a network, or even mount another computer’s hard drive using SSH. It is compatible with any type of partition because it has the ability to copy a partition block by block. Clonezilla also compresses the saved image file in order to save space. I’ve been using the Clonezilla live CD for about a year and have never had an issue with it, it simply works.
Computers
clonezilla, image, linux, samba, share, ssh