It's Been a Busy Week - Random Thoughts 1
Nothing really to report this week. Doing RMA stuff on an old Antec 550W PSU and getting an estimate to fix the Dell laptop.
Saying these things is much easier than what I really had to do to get them ready to ship. I wiped the data partition from the Dell disk after mirroring it to another drive. Had some fun with ntfs-3g FUSE drivers since my USB-SATA connector decided to stop working last weekend. Oddly, it worked a few days later – must have been a heating issue?
Since the laptop had my main xubuntu and WinXP VMS on it, I’ve been trying to migrate them to either Xen or KVM or ESXi4. None of those attempts have worked so far. In the years I’ve been running Xen, I’ve never gotten an HVM machine to work. Perhaps I need to try with a fresh HVM install before trying to import an existing VM that may have incompatible CPU/IO settings.
Some of the features for this blog, Typo, aren’t working as I’d like either. Posting new articles causes a 500-Server Error. I have a fix for that, but it shouldn’t be needed. There are other issues too. I’ve researched replacements. Most appear to be based on PHP which just doesn’t sound like a good idea due to security concerns to me. OTOH, Joomla and Drupal are extremely popular and could lead to other paid work. Wordpress and Movable Type are in the running too, but not as useful for businesses. I’m always on the lookout for CMSes that help with both personal and business needs. A way to migrate 400 articles into the new system is needed too. I’d prefer to retain content, formatting, comments, and links in the migration.
Today, I awoke to a loud noise from a PSU fan. I check inside to see what is rubbing the fan – nothing is. Wack! That did it. 10 min later and the noise is back. Wack! Wack! All is good. I really need that RMA back.
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The RMA from Antec worked with no issues beyond the hassle of dealing with an RMA. No receipt required because the PSU had a 3 yr warranty. Shipping was under $12 ground FedEx. About 10 days later, a new PSU of the same wattage, bronze 80+ efficiency arrived. It is a different model, but I think the NeoHE line was short lived. This is a Antec TP550. Since it is new, not refurbished, it includes all the extras a new PSU does.
The new PSU will be installed today when the PC isn’t busy. The current, old, backup PSU running in it is making a bunch of fan-hits-cable noise that just started again this morning after running without it for about 20 days.
So the TP-500 PSU install went nice and easy. That machine is happily running AND beautifully quiet. Life is good.