Well a lot has happened since I last posted:

• Went to Central Australia for two weeks
• Mac OS X 10.4.2 came out
• My web server's hard drive died
• I went to the Hunter Valley
• I fixed the web server
  

...and lots more!

I plan on doing a longer post covering all that stuff. But I'll give a quick run down on the server issues.
At 4.28am on Friday the 15th of July the web servers hard drive died. I wasn't able to start looking into the problem until Saturday afternoon as I had been in the Hunter Valley.

My plan on Saturday was to replace the single IDE hard drive with two SATA drives running in a Raid 1. This proved to be more problematic than expected.
I ended up going through three SATA controllers and many attempts at both software and hardware raid. The main problem (with the SATA cards) was the lack of support for freeBSD and generally just seriously crap hardware (Silicon Image 3112 chipset).

Anyway the server is currently running two Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA hard drives running in hardware raid 1 on a RocketRaid 1520 SATA controller.

I'm going to bed! More later...