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huge crashes with centos 6.2 & LSI SAS

Yesterday I ran yum update on most of my servers. It was a large update, I guess it was centos 6.2? At any rate part of the update was kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64. After I updated 3 of my servers became unresponsive … Continue reading

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MegaRaid Manager (MSM) for the LSI 2108

I have the supermicro SuperServer 2026TT H6RF server. Each contains 4 nodes and each node has an onboard 6Gbps SAS controller, an LSI 2108. I wanted to install a manager for monitoring the drives and raid status. Digging around I … Continue reading

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FishBlab Fishing Groups

FishBlab Fishing Groups is now in place. You can create a Fishing Group that is based on region, people or whatever you want. A Fishing Group can be: 1) open to all who wish to join 2) Membership by request, … Continue reading

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Google plusone button hides tweet button

I was slightly frustrated when I tried to add the google plusone button to www.fishblab.com. When I added it in my development environment the google plusone button would completely mask the tweet button. So there were actually 2 google plus … Continue reading

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The best Servers(s) in the world

So you are a startup. You have decided to not use the cloudy stuff. You want some rocking hardware! Here it is. Start with the chassis: The awesome Supermicro 2026TT. This badass in a 2U case has 4 nodes and … Continue reading

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New section: User Profiles – user.fishblab.com

User profiles are now live on http://user.fishblab.com. One can browse and search for Users, view and edit one’s own profile and view an individual profile. The default view shows a map driven view of all FishBlab Users. Change the map … Continue reading

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Roll your own or virtual cloudiness

For a startup you have 2 choices: host on some virtual hardware in the cloud (EC2) or roll your own. I spent a short time evaluating the pros and cons of each and what I came up with is that … Continue reading

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New section : Discussion – discuss.fishblab.com

Discussion with comments is in place at discuss.fishblab.com. This section is for free-form fishing discussion. A discussion requires a short descriptive caption and then the body or content of the post. The date defaults to the current date. Multiple photos … Continue reading

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Fish Catch, Reports, Spots added to photo section

The http://photo.fishblab.com section has been improved. Fishing Catch Reports have been added. This is a log of each species of fish caught – which can be multiple if needed. For each species the name, weight and length are needed. The … Continue reading

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New Photo section on http://photo.fishblab.com

A new section has been added to FishBlab: Photos. photo.fishblab.com is where users can quickly upload Fishing photos using a simple photo uploader. Once signed in the user can quickly add photos with optional captions and descriptions. Once uploaded the … Continue reading

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