Inanis.net

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Sorry about the server problems folks. Either someone is playing a game of “Denial Of Service” on me, or the Inanis.net webserver has hardware issues.

The hardware will be replaced shortly.

UPDATE:

#define EPIPE           32 /* Broken pipe */

A process gets EPIPE when it tries to write to a pipe (or socket) when the process at the other end has closed the connection.

Bad network card? Bad network equipment between the server and the Internet? More things to look into.

UPDATE 2: Server hardware replaced. Seems much faster and more stable now, but I think there is a firewall and/or switch issue causing dropped connections to the server. This is somewhat out of my control but I will stay on top of it…

MySQL ate dust tonight. Don’t know how long it’s been down, but a server reboot fixed it. Sorry if the system was down and you couldn’t get to the site.

I am testing a new version of my blog theme. It looks even better than the previous version, and is actually more cross browser compatible than the previous one. Lets take this for a swing for a week and see how it works, ‘kay? Glitches found and fixed (or maybe just found) to be listed here…

Sometimes, the best way to test something is to just get in and drive.

• Browsers Working:
  • IE 6/Win [with issues, but it's viewable and usable], IE 7/Win, FF 2-3/Win, FF 3/Linux, FF 3/Mac [has a weird issue with post titles, need to get a Modern Mac to fix this], Opera 9.6/Win, Safari 3/Win, Safari 1-2/Mac, Chrome 0.2.149.30/Win
• [fixed] - Sidebar XHMTL validation failure under certain circumstances
• [fixed] - lightweight theme widgets bottom has incorrect setting in stylesheet for sidebar-bottom.
• [fixed] - Tag Cloud overflows the Options Menu. Put it in a scrolling div?
• [broken] - Certain items (galleries, blockquotes) are getting margin-ed off the page. ODD. {it was a clear:both problem} (still broken on picture gallery pages in FF2/Win)
  
• [fixed] - Theme is not named correctly in the Disclaimer
• [fixed] - Certain widgets seem to be broken? {it was a case of using classes instead of ids for styling}
• [fixed] - My search template’s search field is too wide for the sidebar.
• [fixed] - search button hover on start menu not working
• [fixed] - Theme was not Valid XHTML Transitional
• [fixed] - comments area form inputs are too big
• [fixed] - Lightweight theme is glitchy because of fixes to make widgets work
• [fixed] - gallery pic pages “post titles” are broken
• [fixed] - edit button is illegible on certain themes
  
• [added] - add ability to leave comments on “pages”
• [added] - some javascript to force sidebar to always be full size of page content
  
• [working] - minor graphic tweaks
• [would like] -
  • ability to click on post title and go to full post

Sorry about the extended outage. The remnants of Hurricane Ike met with a pressure front and created havoc where the server lives. My fiber connection was out for about 3 days. Everything should be hunky dory now.

Had some extra hardware come into my possession, so I upgraded the Inanis.net server today. Upgraded the Athlon XP 1700+ to a 2800+, bumped it up to 1GB RAM, doubled the Hard Drive to 80GB and replaced the motherboard (or mobo, to the geeks). I had planned on putting the new CPU and RAM in the original mobo, but I found out the old mobo had a couple of capacitors that were starting to puff up, so I went full tilt. This upgrade was much easier than the last one I did. I used CloneZilla to copy the Hard Drive, and brought the new machine up beside the old one, to reduce downtime. I got the X Server configured correctly and made sure the network card worked properly (which, this time, was not an issue, not like last time), then switched the box over. Total downtime: about 10 minutes.

Life goes on.

Inanis.net has finished it’s conversion from Windows jail to Linux freedom. Open Source: feel the breeze.

Enjoy the new layout. It was the toughest part, a labor of love. It took me a total of 24 hours of work to get the theme hacked just the way I want it. My favorite part is the mouseover buttons at the top. Sorry IE6 users, you don’t get to see those. Get Firefox. Or Opera. Or run your damned Windows Updates, for Pete’s sake!

The server setup and configuration was easy. I just grabbed my in-house wiki box I was using for my Computer Museum and SPID, thew in WordPress and some greeblies, and put it on a public IP address. Having the wiki box as my webserver is an added bonus: no more weird dyndns and port forwarding crap!

It’s on a nice fast 3 Megabit fiber connection pretty much by itself, so it serves pages pretty well.

All in all, it was a fun project. Let’s hope it doesn’t break!