Saturday 02/07/04
Sometime this weekend, this site will probably be down for an hour or two while I upgrade the server's motherboard. In the parlance of the kids today, the machine will be "getting giggy." As in a 2.4 giggyhertz (Intel-equivalent) Athlon, a giant leap from the dual 366 Celerons that are in it now. With luck, it won't be as frustrating as the last upgrade I did.
Update 1: Well, it required a Windows 2000 re-install, and I'm still configuring IIS and the mail server, and there seems to be at least one folder whose permissions somehow got so forked-up that I can't even delete it, but the Web site seems to have survived. I'll call it a success! Movable Type is quite snappy now, too.
Update 2: Mail and IIS are happy now. Not bad! The server will probably be up and down a bit more this evening as I install some stuff that got lost when I re-installed the OS. And at some point, I want to put the Netgear firewall on -- there's no time like the present, since the box is already dragged out and has a keyboard and monitor hooked up to it.
Update 3: Firewall installed and... well... firewalling. Figured out how to fix the permissions on the aforementioned forked-up folder.
Footnote: You know how a couple weeks ago, I bitched about a motherboard upgrade that required the ATX12V connection to work right? When I ordered the motherboard for the server, I made sure to order a new power supply with the ATX12V connector along with it, only to discover that 1) the new motherboard didn't need it and 2) the power supply already in the machine had the connector anyway, tucked underneath where I didn't see it at first. Meh. Guess I'll keep the new one as a spare.
