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I’m writing this at 11:20AM EST (ignore whatever the timestamp here says). As of now, the store that built the server is almost done its tests and hasn’t been able to replicate any of the crashes that I got. At about 1:30 I’ll head down there and walk them through a series of tests that should crash it. If it doesn’t crash, maybe we got lucky and either solidified a loose component or the bios and firmware upgrades we did solved the problem.
So assuming I can’t make it crash in a test environment, I’ll plug the machine back in this afternoon or early evening and see what happens, although I’m fully prepared to build a new machine from scratch if it comes to that (and that’s what I expect will happen, personally). Oh, and if you see people asking elsewhere what’s up with IAM, please let them know that I’m posting updates here on ModBlog.
And I’ll add again for anyone just seeing this that no data is lost, and it’s both unharmed on the server, and additionally backed up as well. So when we come back up, there should be no unpleasant surprises.
UPDATE: 1:30PM – The store has been unable to make it crash. So I’m going to go get it, plug it in, and see what happens. If it works, we’re up today. If it doesn’t, we’re up most likely tomorrow (on a new box).
UPDATE: 2:30PM – The site is currently online experimentally on the old hardware. Even though every piece has been stress tested and comes out OK, I’m not sold this will solve it. However, I have now got a duplicate of every piece of hardware in this box, so if it doesn’t stay stable tonight I can rebuild it.
Heh, I thought this was an appropriate picture given the current IAM server issues!!! Anyway, enjoy today’s updates here — I’ve tried to post a little bit more than usual. I don’t have any news on the IAM server — the original builder hasn’t been able to source the issue either (at least not immediately) — but I have ordered parts to build a second machine tomorrow if it comes down to that. So no matter what, we’ll be back online this weekend.
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This photo was taken at the 2006 London Tattoo Convention… If anyone knows the artist credit, please pop into the forum and post it.
The lovely Dunebug has one of my favorite implants that Steve Haworth has ever done — the textured pieces running across her collarbones — augmented with tattooing by Jackie Brown at No Ka Oi in Philadelphia. I’m a big fan of her work and aesthetic in general!
A few weeks ago I posted on my personal blog that I wanted to remove my anti-tragus — so I was quite pleased to get this freshly done anti-tragus removal from iam:Howie (aka LunaCobra.net). His procedure for them is to elevate the skin off of the cartilage and then removal so that there is enough skin to comfortably stitch around the new form. Very cool to see these in a modern/Western context! If giant labrets and giant nostrils can come back into style, I hope this can as well.
Thanks to SarahScar sending in this photo (with more on BME) of her second play piercing session.
Melz sends us this photo of the memorial tattoo she had done for her former husband, portrait tattooed by Leslie Allen, at the time tattooing at Body and Soul in Gutenburg, NJ. Far too young to die! (Vaguely related: In Memorium)
I don’t see hood ladders that often — let alone a five-piece ladder (not counting the triangle) — so I thought I’d share it here. More are of course in the female genital piercing galleries on BME.
