I bought the UPS I was itching for in the last post. I’ve got it connected and the SimpleTech NAS is running on it now. Tomorrow morning, I’ll start the computer and begin the long process of updating it. The computer hasn’t been maintained in many months so I’m gonna use this guide in the Gentoo docs to help me. It beats doing a clean install.

I also created a new category to publish downtime/maintenance notices and server software updates. Mozilla blogs all of their scheduled maintenance and the expected changes during that time. Doing Change Management correctly takes discipline. Discipline not to make changes on a whim. Discipline to document everything in detail.