badger is dead, long live saffron

13 views
Skip to first unread message

Jeremy Morse

unread,
Oct 5, 2014, 7:27:43 PM10/5/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
Hi,

studentrobotics.org now points at a new host,
saffron.studentrobotics.org. This is a new linode4096, which at the time
of writing has an SSD disk, 4Gb of memory, and 4 dedicated (ish) CPUs.
Great thanks to everyone who's contributed to puppet over the last two
years, particularly Peter, who did a lot of the Fedora 20 legwork.
Moving over took a total of 2 hours, previous moves have taken multiple
days.

There will be a small prize for whoever guesses the naming scheme,
except Alistair who suggested it several years ago.

Everything on the new host should be the same as on the old, except that
trac has been updated to version 1.0 (enjoy your slashdot-style drop
shadows and curves). I believe that all our data has been moved across:
however I'd appreciate it if people could poke around everywhere you
can, to see if anything is broken or missing. The old machine can still
be accessed at https://badger.studentrobotics.org . Be sure to enter
https, or you'll be redirected to the main domain.

badger will be up for at least the next week. After that I'll delete it,
there's no point keeping it around. If you have a home directory there,
be sure to remove anything you value before then.

The host keys are:
2048 45:d6:29:fa:26:8f:47:27:2c:56:7c:b4:0e:ad:e4:d8 (RSA)
256 7e:46:8d:61:25:ea:da:91:5e:74:ce:a6:ff:3a:67:a0 (ECDSA)
1024 0f:fa:a7:99:f7:8a:5b:4b:e4:ab:d0:7c:f9:f4:8a:49 (DSA)
I might have reported different ones before; however the badger ones got
restored over them. The gerrit ssh host key has not changed.

There were some snags in moving things across, which I'll open tickets
about. I imagine there will always be snags, and they contributed to
less than 30 minutes of additional work.

I for one look forward to our SSD wielding overlords eradicating all
spinning rust disks from the world.

--
Thanks,
Jeremy

signature.asc

Jeremy Morse

unread,
Oct 5, 2014, 7:38:01 PM10/5/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
Hi,

On 06/10/14 00:27, Jeremy Morse wrote:
> There will be a small prize for whoever guesses the naming scheme,
> except Alistair who suggested it several years ago.

Rob has correctly guessed firefly, and wins an entire doughnut. Alas, I
imagine google would have identified any combination of character names
anyway.

"Yosafbridge" would have been obvious, of course.

--
Thanks,
Jeremy

signature.asc

Rob Spanton

unread,
Oct 5, 2014, 7:49:09 PM10/5/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 00:37 +0100, Jeremy Morse wrote:
> Rob has correctly guessed firefly, and wins an entire doughnut. Alas,
> I imagine google would have identified any combination of character
> names anyway.

Next time you'll have to rot13 them.

R
signature.asc

Rob Spanton

unread,
Oct 5, 2014, 7:50:22 PM10/5/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
And I would have much preferred it to have been based on this news
article: "Badgers poisoned near Saffron Walden"

http://www.essex.police.uk/news_features/features_archive/2013/april/badgers_poisoned_near_saffron.aspx

R

signature.asc

Jeremy Morse

unread,
Oct 12, 2014, 11:46:26 AM10/12/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
Hi,

On 06/10/14 00:27, Jeremy Morse wrote:
> badger will be up for at least the next week. After that I'll delete it,
> there's no point keeping it around. If you have a home directory there,
> be sure to remove anything you value before then.

I will be deleting badger tomorrow.

--
Thanks,
Jeremy

signature.asc

Alistair Lynn

unread,
Oct 12, 2014, 11:56:17 AM10/12/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
Hi Jeremy-

> I will be deleting badger tomorrow.

Don't tell Brian May.

Alistair

Jeremy Morse

unread,
Oct 15, 2014, 2:19:41 PM10/15/14
to srobo...@googlegroups.com
Hi,

On 12/10/14 16:46, Jeremy Morse wrote:
> I will be deleting badger tomorrow.

RIP

--
Thanks,
Jeremy

signature.asc
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages