The White Dragon relinquishes it's primary task as a web server to the Indigo Dragon. The Indigo Dragon expands on all functions of the White Dragon. It's 60 gig hard drive is a step up from the White Dragon's 20 gig, and with the growth of the web site's footprint, this space is needed. The Indigo Dragon's base operating system is SuSE 9.1 with kernel 2.6-- a step up from SuSE 7.3 with kernel 2.4. The Indigo also holds the title for fastest computer on the Park Place network, with an Atholon 2600+. But it's mobil CPU can operate on a mear 200 watt power suply, enabeling the 1.15 KVA UPS to keep the server on even longer durring power outages.

   Having a video card with tons of horsepower and two monitor headers has proven to be too much to resist. We've long thought about having a 21" monitor, and now we've done. The Red-Dragon now has as it's primary monitor, a 21" `Perfect Flash' ViewSonic running in 2048x1536 at 68 Hz. Our 19" Schneider sites along side, running 1600x1200 at 75 Hz. With 3.1 megapixels, the 21" ViewSonic is an awesome graphics monitor. And with the additional space from a second desktop on the 19", we have tons of needed workspace.
   We typically setup the 19" as a status space, watching the web server logs, bandwidth and temperatures, along with holding some standard apps, like the IM list and music. When work with graphics, the 21" holds the image, while the 19" holds tools like layers, color palette and the like. It is an excellent setup :)

    Having sat in Pluvius's basement for a couple weeks as DrQue.net's backup server, the Indigo-Dragon returns to Park Place.  Plans for the Indigo Dragon include permently hosting DrQue.net so the White Dragon can turn into an other expermental Linux box.

    The phone compney has switched the DSL service and DrQue.net returns to the Park Place servers.  We got to use Rsync over SSH to sync the White Dragon to the Indigo Dragon (to keep logs and the databases matched), and it worked flawlessly.

    We lost the DSL connection today, but the phone compney says the black-out period shouldn't last byond Monday.  The Indigo Dragon sits happly under the couch in Pluvius's basement, quietly serving DrQue.net.

    Not since 2001 when the White Dragon was born have we upgraded the video card. But, questioning proformance improvements, we decided to buy from Pluvius a Radeon 9600 with 128 MB. It's a bit of a step up from the nVidia Geforce 2 w/ 32 MB. We also have video capture, which we confermed can capture directly to MPEG-4 with MP3 audio. So I don't really have any more excuses not to convert the 8mm video tape to digital ;)

    The DSL setup at Park Place is undergoing change, and a temporary server is being setup with Pluvius to handle DrQue.net.  The phone lines are getting changed over to a new name, and due to their system, it means we have to get the current line shut-off and the new line connected.  Due to the possibility of downtime, Pluvius has agreed to host DrQue.net with his connection while the change takes place.

    We had to build PHP with support for GMP for an encryption project, so decided to update to 5.0.3.

    It's been a long while (like, since June of 2002) since we've been assigned a new IP address.  But, we now have a new one.  All primary domains *should* be functional, with a few we don't control being switched over as soon as their respective operators get the message.

   The Indigo Dragon took the show for awhile while we compiled Apache 1.33, mod_ssl 2.8.22, and OpenSSL 0.9.7e.  It's been quite awhile since we've updated Apache and before we did it I wanted to be sure we had a backup server.