Dave and Rob's Excellent(?) Adventure

Ok, this is gonna be funny: the short story is we have a new server running Slashdot, the longer story starts by saying that its not the machine that was shipped to us. Click the link below to read what happened if you're actually curious...

Ok so we took down Slashdot and swapped the hard drive, video card and eth to the new box. Powered up... and nothing. No video. We tried a ton of stuff (tested a different CPU, yada yada- we've both worked Tech Services for many years, so we know the game far to well) and finally gave up on the new mobo.

In the process, we tore apart a few other machines to canibalize parts that we knew worked. At that point we decided to move Slashdot from Triton to Spazmo (spazmo is my P2 that I brought to the office last month to test The Mystery Project on *grin*). So after many sqldumps and rapid setting up of programs, we made the IP switcheroo, and tada! Slashdot is a P2/266.

It's running an older version of mysql, but hey, we have twice as much ram. We're gonna get article archiving going today, and probably compile the latest mysql. Tomorrow we hopefully will do the test site- we're aiming to release the Source right after LinuxExpo.

So if anyone notices any wierdness, let us know. We made the swap in like 45 minutes so we might have missed something... or nothing... or everything... *grin*