So like every good Mac fanboi, I follow MacUpdate/Versiontracker for the latest software updates. So when I saw an update for Livestation (a peer-to-peer TV app for watching live broadcasts from various stations) I was ready to download. But according to MacUpdate the 3.0 version of LiveTracker was Intel only. Lots of software producers have gone this way as they drop support for PPC, but I decided to trudge over to livestation.com and check out the situation for myself.

Loh and behold there is a new 3.0 version of the software available. This normally wouldn't ...

Since I was being down all week anyway, I decided to take an extra day to do an OS upgrade. So the server moved from FreeBSD 7.2 stable to FreeBSD 8.0 pre-release. FreeBSD just released 8.0-RC3 and should be very close to a 8.0-stable release within a week or two.

Lots of changes between the 7 and 8 branches, so there was a need to rebuild all of the ports used locally, like perl, php, python, and erlang and apache, postgresql, dovecot, ejabberd, openldap, openser, privoxy, clamav, spam assassin and so on and so forth.

So ...

So the-eleven.com has been having a lot of downtime lately. An old SCSI drive has been having issues and causing kernel panics.

So I backed up the data on the drive, took the server down and performed a SCSI-level format on the drive. I then relabeled and newfs'd the drive and restored the data from the backups. While the machine was unavailable I used the opportunity to move from Postgresql83 to Postgresql84 as well.