Ok, this is embarrassing. I have a watchdog app monitoring my server from another box, which sends sms messages to my cellphone. One of the test is for the words “Welcome to my eWorld” to appear on the front page, which my old site didn’t have.
I don’t know why the watchdog’s alert emails weren’t being sent out, but now they are. Hundreds of them. The fun part? I’m away at a conference, and the box running the watchdog requires a certificate to SSH to it, which I don’t have on my work laptop (for good reason). So the best solution I could come up with was to put “Welcome to my eWorld” on my front page. I’ll fix it when I get home. It’s either that or turn off my phone.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albrigh
I do not know why. It is beyond me. However, it is mildly entertaining in a “Uh, there’s something I’ve never seen that before!” This guy went around China taking pictures of people sleeping in public. Over 700 of them.
Witness the splendor yourself.
So I was looking at my server’s various temperature measurements today, because I added a fourth hard drive a few days ago (this server is, among other things, a MythTV box, so I need lots of video storage capacity). I hadn’t looked at the temperature measurements in a while, because my Antec case has done an admiral job of keeping things cool enough in the summer. My case has a separate lower section for up to 4 hard drives with a dedicated fan, in addition to a fan in the back and one on top, all with three-position speed switches (and of course the CPU fan, which is variable speed too). An additional 4 hard drives can go in the upper front, but I have all four hard drives in that lower section. Read on…
Jack Ganssle is an author, consultant, and software developer who focuses on embedded software. He’s got an e-newsletter called The Embedded Muse I’ve been subscribed to for years, even though I haven’t done embedded development for quite some time, because he has great insight into software development in general. He also talks about other related topics, like dealing with customers, dealing with coworkers, dealing with change, etc.
His most recent issue[0][1] talks about the failure of software reuse, especially in the embedded world. Not that reuse isn’t great, but that we’re simply not doing it. Read on…