The GrabPERF Web server has been offline for more than 4 days, after it was moved to a new rack.
Kevin Burton complained about the lack of availability today [here].
I have enquired about an ETA for return to service. None has been forthcoming.
At this point, I guess you can consider GrabPERF offline until further notice.
Author: spierzchala
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GrabPERF: Frustrated and Demoralized
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GrabPERF: Web server still out
The folks who host the server are slammed and trying to figure out what is happening. Hopefully it will return to action tomorrow.
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GrabPERF: Web Server Offline
Last night, the folks at the hosting facility moved the servers to a new rack. The database server is up and data is coming in from the measurement agents, but the Web server is not yet back up.
I hope that this will be resolved later today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Welcome aboard!
I finally tired of running my own blog server, and since most folks use the feeds, I figure I will abuse Matt Mullenweg’s bandwidth rather than my own.
Welcome back?
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Creative Hiatus — Sketching
As a part of my creative hiatus, I have strated sketching. A lot. Still lifes mainly (people are still way off in the future), and mostly objects found on my desk and around the house.
Nothing worth showing yet, but it is relaxing to dissect an object line by line and then put it back together.
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The Size of Storage
Today, I took an inventory of the portable storage solutions I have with me at all times.
On the bottom, a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition at 100GB. In the middle, an 8GB Zen Microphoto. On to, a mostly useless iPod Shuffle that I use as a thumbdrive.
The top two are provided for context. I also purchased a 300GB Maxtor OneTouch III that I use for my media files.
Based on it’s size, the Maxtor Mini must use a standard 100GB laptop drive in a sleek aluminum housing. So far, It’s a dream. Slides into my bag, acts as a backup, and stores larger media files for when I’m on the road.
But the whole idea that I can slip nearly 110GB of storage into my pack is insane. And next year, this will be old school.
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Suburban Wildlife
Over the last 12 hours, we have had some pretty remarkable “wildlife” scenes in our yard.
Last night, as I took Wiggles out for her walk, she found a cat…a striped, stinky cat.
Skunk 1, Wiggles 0.
We suspect that it had been hiding under our back porch. We are taking steps to encourage it to find new digs. But Wiggles did enjoy her bath at 10:30 last night.
This morning, two squirrels decided to try on their best wrasslin’ moves in the ancient birch tree outside our house. The were tumbling around like crazed…well, squirrels. They rolled down the tree in a ball once, and then fell separately from about 20 feet, bouncing off tree branches on their way to the ground.
When they broke it up, one of the combatants sat in a tree branch for about 20 minutes, recuperating and literally licking its wounds.
Who says that we live in a world devoid of natural elements?
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Visual Beauty
As I re-align my processing, I have discovered that the beauty of photographs really holds me. Many of my Bloglines subscriptions are now streams from Flickr. One photographer in particular that I have found captures images of power is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir. There is something very powerful in her images, and she lives in one of the countries I really want to visit: Iceland.
© 2006 Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir — All rights reserved. There is something primeval and cultured that emanates from that island nation, the cultural centre of the Vikings.
Pictures make my mind snap, change my mood in an instant, draw power from inside me.
Wandering Flickr is always a wonderful way to relax.
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On a creative hiatus
Over the last 3 weeks, I have been unusually quiet, even for me. I am taking a creative hiatus and doing a lot of reading, by real writers, not just technical books.
I am also in the office a lot more than I have been for the last two months. Getting back into that takes a little time as well.
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