The first pipe I bought has seen a bit of abuse over the last 2 years and I’ve started to become displeased with the way it’s been smoking. It’s not entirely surprising either. So many different blends have been through that bowl. It’s been time for a good, thorough cleaning. The question is, how do you clean a brier bowl?
After joining the pipes.org forum and spending some time reading over the maintenance section the solution seems to be the “Salt and Alcohol” treatment. Wherein you remove the stem, block the shank, fill the bowl with kosher salt, then top it up with alcohol. Let it sit for 12-24 hours. Remove the contents of the bowl, let it all dry out, and repeat.
We’re currently at the “let it set” stage. Here’s to hoping I get to enjoy my first pipe again.
Anybody who builds their own 3d printer with a rework station and a make controller gets uber geek cred. That it prints in sugar is just a bonus
The new hardware has been stable in apoc so far. Almost 48 hours solid, which is a fairly big jump from rebooting every 12-16 hours. It’s also a far cry from “proven stable” in my mind though. I think I’m going to start running some tests on the hardware I pulled out though. First round is going to be a couple passes of memtest. If that clears then I guess I’ll be getting a pair of hard drives and trying to mimic the OS install.
From there I hope that the same behavior will present itself. Then I can try the tweaks one by one, disable hyperthreading, disable usb, disable apic, etc. Until we find out what solves the problem. Then I can get this board back in apoc. I’d really much prefer to have the full 3gb in the VM host.
I’ve got all the MD units renamed now, so instead of /dev/md0 consisting of /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5 those units are in/dev/md5 and so forth. Does it make a difference to anyone but me? No not really. But I like having things consistent.
Today I headed down to the colo after work. I swapped out the mobo, proc, mem, and sata controller in apoc. So far things seem to be a bit more stable. However, I made a number of other tweaks that may have fixed the instability. On the new board, I disabled hyperthreading and onboard usb. Unfortunately this board doesn’t do dual-channel ddr and only has three slots instead of four for ram. I would eventually like to get the original board back in apoc, but only after extensive testing at home.
Here’s to hoping we get a stable Xen box soon.
Just stupid busy.
I’ve been fighting with server bitchyness the last week or so now. Apoc seems to have a memory issue somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find it yet. I’m not sure if it’s hardware or an issue with the new Xen kernel I’m running from etch. Eventually I will get this resolved. I still need to move the jabber server off the VM server and onto the new seraph. Need to get another disk in seraph and mirror them too. So much stuff to do.
I spent yesterday layed out in bed with a fucked up back. It still hurts this morning but I’m hoping I’ll survive the day. I guess maybe it’s time that I actually see somebody about that.
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