Originally Mike thought only his garage and a small portion of the house needed to be torn down and rebuilt. However, it has now been determined that the entire house must be torn down.
Mike has been able to recover data from the disks in one of the computers from the garage [...]

I’ve just set up an album of photos of my server after the fire.

My server is finally online again. It was actually down for less than three days, but it seemed like forever. Thanks very much to:

Andy Rubin for providing high-speed internet access,
Steven Ellis for helping with data recovery,
Scott Dattalo, Steven Ellis, and Brad Parker for contributing to the cost of the replacement [...]

Some time back, a friend asked me to provide backup DNS for his domains, including some commercial ones, and I was happy to oblige. But it turns out that he never put ns2.brouhaha.com into the registrar’s records for the domain. So now those domains depend on his server and my primary, both of [...]

More on the aftermath of the fire. But first, a bit of history of the machine. It was an older system that had been through many generations of motherboard, CPU, and drive upgrades. For a while now, it’s had an Asus P2B (or perhaps P2B-F) slot 1 motherboard with a Celeron 766 [...]

I’ve been thinking about writing a diary entry for a while, but wasn’t sure that anything that I do, or that happens to me, was of the slightest interest to anyone. Maybe this isn’t either, but due to current circumstances I may as well.
My personal server machine, which runs my web server, mail server, [...]