Category: Personal

Personal Category

Divine Guidance

I was wondering about the phrase “rise to fight another day”.  I was led to the quote that it supposedly came from, and then curiosity about the author, John Dryden, led me to an unexpected boost.

Fight on, my merry men all, I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain;
I will lay me down for to bleed a while,
Then I'll rise and fight with you again. - John Dryden

I found some quotes that were PERFECT for how I was feeling, and I think it was because I prayed about how I was feeling, especially about a decision I have to make.

  • They conquer who believe they can.
  • Fortune befriends the bold.
  • None but the brave deserve the fair.
  • He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
  • Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue
  • Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
  • Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
  • Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
  • The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
  • Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.”
  • Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
  • We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
  • What passions cannot music raise or quell?
  • Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Another Server

This morning I was upgrading my web server to F16. It came time to reboot, and now it won’t boot. Powers up, though. I went an bought a PSU tester, seems I will need one, now that I’m back to being a HW guy. I’ll guess PSU, CPU, or Motherboard is the issue. For the first time in years, www.techharbor.com is DOWN

What happened to bring this computer misery on me?

It lives

I bought a Dell 1600SC server back in 2001.  It helped me learn DHCP and DNS.  I learned about server hardware as I upgraded through the years.  As I moved to open source software for my workstations and servers, it was the only the only Windows software I had, and its main job was to run Symantec EndPoint for the virtual PCs I used in working with corporate clients.

Except two days ago, the server crashed.  I was quickly reminded how dependent on having a local DNS server I had become.  I wasn’t sure if it was the Power Supply or the System board, but things looked bleak.

Be Strong and Courageous.  So, I ordered a used PSU off of e-bay, since it was the cheapest T/S route.  Yep.  I had to hack at W2K3 to restore the Windows installation, and I don’t want to tell you how long that took, but tonight, She’s back runnin’.  Praise the Lord, remind me to make DNS redundant in my network.