http://grommit.comhacked-up perl scriptnews and updates for the grommit.com portalensteve@grommit.com2008-09-06T23:01-08:002008_august 18 10:00 - grommit upgraded2008-08-18T10:00-08:00 after 263 days of uptime, i rebooted into a newly upgraded snv_95 build. 2008_july 20 11:49 - wordpress upgrade2008-07-20T11:49-08:00 upgraded the shared wordpress blog installation to 2.6 2008_june 23 11:05 - gallery upgrade2008-06-23T11:05-08:00 upgraded gallery to 2.2.5 2008_march 4 22:00 - 100 days of uptime2008-03-04T22:00-08:00 the new grommit has been up for 100 days now! woohoo! 2007_november 25 19:03 - grommit goes quad2007-11-25T19:03-08:00 just finished installation of the <a href="/about.php">new machine</a>. grommit is now powered by a quad-core Intel Xeon 2.4GHz with 4GB of RAM and 1.5 TB of disk (in a RAID mirror of two 750GB drives). major software upgrades include a full OS upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris Express snv_75, PHP 4 upgraded to PHP 5, and SquirrelMail bumped up to 1.4.11. additionally, the IMAP software was upgraded to Dovecot for even better imappy mail goodness. 2007_july 17 22:37 - gallery upgrade2007-07-17T22:37-08:00 wow, it's been a long 8 months without grommit news updates. i upgraded grommit to gallery 2.2 today - and we now have two features i've been jonesing for for quite a while now: dynamic keyword/tag based albums, and EXIF auto-rotate! woohoo! 2006_dec 3 20:52 - moving homes2006-12-03T20:52-08:00 after three and a half good years with <a href="http://communitycolo.net">CCCP</a>, we've moved homes over to the <a href="http://www.cernio.com">Cernio</a> Co-op. we've moved from the <a href="http://he.net">Hurricane Electric</a> datacentre in Fremont, to the 200 Paul UnitedLayer datacentre in San Francisco. 2006_nov 16 11:30 - gallery upgrade2006-11-16T11:30-08:00 upgraded gallery to 2.1.2 today 2006_sep 9 10:00 - blog upgrade, redux2006-09-09T10:00-08:00 upgraded the shared wordpress blog installation to 2.0.4 2006_sep 9 8:30 - the last word in filesystem (migration)2006-09-09T08:30-08:00 finally finished the 3 stage ZFS migration. all home directories and webspace is now on ZFS. 2006_aug 10 18:23 - it's zetariffic2006-08-10T18:23-08:00 updated to the latest patches and rebooted so we could get some ZFS goodness. mmmmmm.....ZFS... <img src="/smileys/smiley_orange_01.png" alt=":-)"></img> 2006_jun 2 15:44 - blog upgrade2006-06-02T15:44-08:00 upgraded all the shared wordpress installation blogs to 2.0.3 2006_apr 28 14:32 - minor gallery upgrade2006-04-28T14:32-08:00 i upgraded gallery to 2.1.1 for some minor bugfixes today 2006_apr 13 16:52 - major gallery upgrade2006-04-13T16:52-08:00 huge huge major gallery upgrade today! we finally have a bunch of features you guys have been bugging me about for ages now :) hidden items, the ability to password-protect individual items (that one's for you jesse), the ability to link to other items/albums/external sites within an album (for you farrah!), rss feeds (for a gazillion people that asked), as well as tons more. read the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gallery/gallery2/README.html?rev=1.164#whats_new">changelog</a> to see what's new in gallery 2.1 2006_feb 26 15:16 - squirrelmail upgrade2006-02-26T15:16-08:00 i upgraded the webmail software to squirrelmail 1.4.6. this was a fairly substantial upgrade, so please let me know if anything isn't working as expected. 2006_feb 7 21:08 - patches, and a reboot2006-02-07T21:08-08:00 i installed a bunch of patches last night, including a new kernel and a new boot loader. installing a new boot loader remotely is a scary thing. anyway, everything looks smooth except for one hiccup that left the MySQL database down all night, rendering the blogs and gallery offline. sorry, totally my bad for not verifying they came up succesfully after the reboot. everything looks good now though. let me know if you see anything awry.