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The humble server that I use to host a few (11) web sites is getting updated. It’s not going to be that big of a deal (99% idle instead of 97% idle).

The big deal will be the addition of Xen, LVM and RAID. I’m thinking about setting up a small domU that will act as a firewall. It will also run Apache as a reverse proxy and Postfix as a transport relay to the domains that will get their own DomU (3 currently). Normally I would also have it run Asterisk to avoid NATing with SIP, but since I switched to IAX with my voice provider, I don’t think it will be necessary.

Anyway, the lights might go out for a little while. Don’t be alarmed.

I’m working at home today. As usual, my son Jacob is looking over my shoulder.

He really likes playing flash games at PBS Kids. I have the flashblock extension installed on Firefox to make browsing the web more nag-free. As a result of the flashblock, Jacob has learned (wrongly) that behind every “click-2-flash” is a kids game. The only thing more annoying then viewing flash ads is being asked repeatedly to click them.

“Dad, can you click that?”

“Don’t you like games?”

“Can you *please* click that?”

“Dad, can I play now?”

“Are you ever going to click that?”

Looks like my Xen hacking has been delayed TYAW (till yet another weekend). I just got a Dom0 installed and was bootstrapping another install to use as a template for DomUs when the Ubuntu servers went out. At first, I thought it was the network because it was hit and miss. Then after about 10 minutes of that, it was a solid miss. They are still offline today.

The command that will not work:

debootstrap –include=language-pack-en,wget,openssh-server –verbose \
–arch i386 dapper installdir http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu

I’m glad it wasn’t *real* work I was trying to get done.  I guess it’s time to setup my own apt-get mirror.  Anyone know how that would be done on Ubuntu?

I like giving a little nudge to those who have not submitted a photo for their Utah Open Source Planet hackergochi. Watch for these gems to show up as they post:

If you have others “heads” that should make the “missing” rotation, let me know.