Exhaust pipe and a smattering of urban markup.
Actually, what you’re about to hear is the sound of multiple drives clunking, clicking, knocking, and otherwise kvetching. Canadian data recovery experts Data Cent have compiled an impressive number of disturbing audio snippets documenting various hard drive failures and mechanistic death throws. My teeth hurt just listening to a few of these.
Via Daring Fireball
The available domain name of the week is rejivenate.com
The available domain name of the week is taxical.com
The available domain name of the week is ballotpox.com
The available domain name of the week is copypastedelete.com
No, you’re not seeing things … that’s a small sliver of 4D’s WebStar 4.4 running under OS 9 (9.1 to be exact, not Classic). This post could be simple documentation of my attempt to unify the administration of the servers residing in my basement. That would be absolutely true. But in all honesty, I’m just kinda showing off. In this particular example, I’m using Redstone Software’s free Vine Server for OS 9 to provide VNC services — enabling me to control my web server at home using Leopard’s Screen Sharing from elsewhere.
A headless rack is a happy rack.
Keeping the VNC server company alongside WebStar is an old school version of Maxum’s Rumpus for FTP and the unbeatable Summary for raw log crunching. Sophisticated Circuit’s iDo Script Scheduler keeps things tidy by firing off a series of maintenance AppleScripts, while Rebound! handles monitoring and recovery tasks for when various application or system events go kerflunky. The server itself (running the very site you’re viewing) is an 11 year old Power Macintosh 9600/200 dual processor with 256MB of memory and a pair of 4GB hard drives.
Who needs OSX Server, anyway?
Well, I suppose long filename support would be nice …
See the entire screenshot on Flickr.
The available domain name of the week is unlouder.com
The available domain name of the week is redactionist.com
For six years — from October 1999 through November 2005 — the available domain name of the week was a regularly updated source for hand-picked, inspirational, and occasionally useful interweb addresses. It was a simple idea that was confoundingly popular.
Well, after a mighty long hiatus, I’m bringing the whois back.
Tune into the lovingly refreshed listing of potential web wonderment, or get your weekly dose of domain via Twitter.
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