• Et cetera, Highlights

    Posted on August 23rd, 2008

    Written by cliff

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    Move to Santa Cruz

    Move to Santa Cruz

    Well, after five years living in Vermont, and something like thirteen years living in New England, Courtney and I have gone and moved to Santa Cruz, CA. There are a lot of reasons for this; the very hard winters and extremely rainy summers in Vermont were starting to wear on us, but mostly we just [...]

  • Data and Technology, Highlights

    Posted on August 5th, 2008

    Written by cliff

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    Bare Metal Linux Restore

    Bare Metal Linux Restore

    Several weeks ago we started seeing some pretty scary errors showing up on the main system disk for our Blackboard server. We had an extra server hanging around, so we decided to move all the data off the failing disk and onto our spare server. The only question was how to make the new server [...]