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Long time coming…

they.com is now running on new hardware!

There was a happy congruence of tax refund check and Dell having a sale of 45% off servers, so the 8+ year old system (a sun netra t1 with a 900MHz ultrasparc IIi, 1G RAM and an external 30G drive) has been replaced (by a poweredge 2750, with 2 2GHz AMD processors, 8G RAM, and 6 160G drives with hardware RAID). After running for 7 hours, the new system has yet to swap memory to disk!

They have also made the switch from Debian GNU/Linux to Gentoo.

There will still be a few things to work out — for example, they have not decided whether or not to re-export the /docs/ directory (which they don’t think they will do again), and some wordpress upgrading differences have yet to be fully resolved.

For now, though, they are just glad to have made the switch, because they can now re-enable spam filtering on the server, and now have virtual mail delivery (so that there are fewer hackable login accounts).

Oh, and since it doesn’t take over a minute to make a post on wordpress anymore, you can expect more frequent posting!

Here is the new server last weekend, while they copied over the gallery images to save bandwidth:

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Over the canyon!

Over the canyon! Grace has finally make a shot over the canyon onto the green!

It happened on 13, and she was excited enough to play all of 17 and 18 from tee to cup by herself.

(She is also pretty excited about the $200 she got for doing it!)

Catchup blogging is the latest rage

Few overhead things this time:

Some other funny things:

Speaking of movies:

Geeky things:

Since golf is big in my life again:

Since we took Grace to Longhorn Cavern State Park during spring break and bought two fossils:

Political and secular things:

2blog folder catchup

As usual, we begin with things overheard:

Political things (since I did, in fact, caucus last night):

Geeky things:

And some funny stuff:

2blog folder catchup

As usual, we begin with things overheard:

Political things (since I did, in fact, caucus last night):

Geeky things:

And some funny stuff:

I am going to hell?

I want to open up a christian bookstore.

Not just any christian bookstore, the wal-mart of christian bookstores.

And what do I want to call it?

Jesus Christ SuperStore!

Milestone!

Grace has her first loose tooth!

It is the front right tooth.

Updates as warranted.

Golfing first!

So we played golf both yesterday and today. Yesterday I played very well (for me, at least!) But today, on the 15th hole, I got my first completely legitimate birdie on a par 4.

Not that anyone cares, but it started with an incredible drive that left me about 2 yards off the green. Then, my approach shot left me 3 feet from the hole. It wasn’t a gimme putt, but I pulled it off!