Archive for November, 2007

Amateur radio vanity call sign

0 Comments Published by Eric November 28th, 2007 in Amateur Radio

My new call sign is AI6ES.
None of the available 1×2 or 2×1 call signs were to my liking, but I like AI6ES better than my previous sequential call sign, AF6FG.

RAID Capacity Expansion, the Suboptimal Way, or How Not to Have a Fun Weekend

4 Comments Published by Eric November 19th, 2007 in Disaster recovery, Hardware, The Suboptimal Way

On Friday, I needed to add disk space to the RAID 5 array on my server. I’m using a 3ware 9550SX-8LP RAID controller, which I’ve generally been very happy with. It has support for online capacity expansion, so I decided to reconfigure it to drop the hot spare drive, then add that drive [...]

TDAH is back!

0 Comments Published by Eric November 12th, 2007 in Blog/website/news comments

I’d nearly given up on This Day in Alternate History, but it is finally back.  Apparently the hiatus lasted a bit longer than expected due to a slight technical malfunction.  Welcome back, Mur and Jason!