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The Venue Online

ibukun — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:12:12 +0000

Xcomputerman.NET is proud to welcome The Venue into our family of hosted sites. The Venue is a dynamic contemporary young adult fellowship at Grace Community Church in Houston, Texas. Services are held every Monday evening at 7pm, followed by the after-party at a nearby restaurant. Visit their brand new web site to find out more.

Back from the Dead

ibukun — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:37:44 +0000

We’re back. The invincible Xcomputerman.NET has once again been snatched from the jaws of certain death. Here’s how it all went down…

About a month ago, I received a text message from Ben at NerdSystems.com saying that he couldn’t access the server all day.

Long story short — I went back and forth with tech support all day, and eventually found out that the hard drive had failed crapped out spectacularly.

I didn’t have backups. I quietly resigned to fate. Three years worth of email archives for my entire family. Web sites. Blogs. Photographs. Friend’s web sites. All kinds of little things. All gone. Forever.

I had no time to mourn. Work was kicking my butt and midterms were upon me. As soon as the hard drive had been replaced, I just quickly setup Postfix to start receiving mail again, and put it all aside.

A week later I received the failed hard drive package. I hooked it up, and it spouted out all kinds of 0×40 UncorrectableError messages. Fate confirmed. My data was surely done for.

Nearly three weeks later, I decided to try again. To my surprise it
booted up without incident. Incredulous at my sudden good fortune, I proceeded to mount the drive read-only. Within a couple of hours I had copied everything of value off it and onto my home PC’s hard drive.

The rest is history. Xcomputerman.com is back, and so is everything else. Emails and all. It is a good day. Rejoice, people. Rejoice.

New site

ibukun — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:00:10 +0000

TosinMusic.com has joined the family of sites hosted at xcomputerman.net. Tosin is a new talented gospel artist about to release her first album. Find out more at TosinMusic.com.

Cache-22 web site almost done

ibukun — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:52:27 +0000

Worked hard on the Cache-22.org web site today. The new site has personal blogs for users, personal photo albums, event calendar, birthday reminders, classified ads, and a greatly improved message board with lots of new features. I’ll be testing the rest of the night to work out the last few kinks and make last minute improvements, and there should be an official launch either tonight or tomorrow morning. In the mean time, you’re free to go check out the site, play around and report any issues you find.

Sites Reactivated

ibukun — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:51:45 +0000

I’ve finished transferring the files for Cache-22.org over, so the message board is alive once again. DNS records have been updated and should propagate within an hour at most. The new site is not ready yet, so whatever else you see on there right now is subject to change in the next few days. However, you can go ahead and start posting away.

xcomputerman.com is partially done, I’m still transferring the picture gallery.

Update @ 4:57pm: Enlightenment BugTracker is also back online.

Update @ 5:15pm: Picture gallery is done.

Good News!

ibukun — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:21:30 +0000

I’ve been working so hard today at getting my email system setup on the new server that I didn’t realize … Network access was restored today (I think Miguel may have helped me fix something … thanks Miguel!). Message board is up but only temporarily, it will soon be shut down when I begin the process of transferring data to the new server. And then work on the new site resumes! I’ll try to have the board available on here as long as I can before the new site is launched. If you have any concerns definitely contact me.

Hello world!

ibukun — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:56:36 +0000

This is only a temporary blog. Will post info on here until everything’s all setup and ready to go. For those of you Cache-22.org members who have not read my status updates –

We’re still suffering network problems with the UH network and there’s no estimated time of resolution. I’m waiting for the network to come back up so that I can start transferring everything over to this server, which will never go down again (well, maybe not never, but we sure won’t be having frequent network issues like this again in the future). Please be patient, keep checking back on here as I will be posting status updates whenever I have them.

Right now the server is all setup and ready to go, just waiting for actual data. Many thanks to Benjamin Price who’s both helping to support the cost of this server as well as helping to set it up. And on that note…

Congratulations to Ben and Christine, who just got married last night! May God bless your marriage and home with peace and joy (and little kids, lots of ‘em) … amen!