Geekido

It’s time to replace the aging Linux server that is the latest in a long line of servers that have been storing our mail at home for the last decade. It’s gone through several upgrades, but the general architecture has been the same — a low-end tower or mini-tower computer running some form of Linux. For a long time, the OS and configurations have lived on one hard drive, with the mail store living on another physical drive. (The total mail store is around 2GB right now.) This is a lot of hardware running a pretty simple server. I’m sure I’m using a lot more electricity than I need, and the aging drives worry me. With modern technology I think I can do a bit better.

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Last night I went to check out Typo, a Rails-powered blog, only to find the page was down. It was still down this morning. After a bit of Googling, I found a cached reference to the new home for Typo — http://www.typosphere.org. I don’t know if this is really meant to be live, since it wasn’t sitting right out there to find, but it does have some info.

UPDATE 8/1/2006

leetsoft is back up, and the redirect is in for the new Typo home, so now it’s officially live.