Ringer Spy Flinch sends along these great pics from the Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) book signing event, attended by our very own Quickbeam and other friends we made at The One Party last March! [More]
Day: May 18, 2002
Taniwha writes in again with nothing more than a little ‘Jamb’ sign…but to us LOTR fans it is quite possibly the coolest thing in the world! More LOTR filming!
“I Finally found a JAMB sign that wasn’t somewhere totally dangerous to photograph, but got a really bad shot of it due to reflected light. These were heading FROM Miramar to the motorway (or at least as far as the Mt Victoria Tunnel) but I lost the track then – probably led back to wherever the Ent was coming from, which could have been Centreport…”
Streyeder writes: FoxNews just showed some wicked snippets of the LOTR game for the XBOX. One was (I believe) Strider fighting off Orcs and the second was Legalos taking some very cool rapid-fire shots off his bow! [Gaming Havens]
We have been saving up to get a new server since before Fellowship hit the screens in December, and it has finally happened. A little over a week ago, Dell shipped us a brand spanking new PowerEdge 1650. Since then Arathorn and myself have been spending all of our free moments working to get the new server ready and in production.
Today between 2-3PM EST the new server went into production. I am fairly sure that most people will be able to feel a notable performance increase in the responsiveness of the new server.
Hardware Specs (old server):
Compaq Proliant 6500
4 x Pentium Pro 200MHz w/ 1024K cache.
2GB of memory
7 x 9.1GB Wide Ultra SCSI Drives
Compaq SMART2 RAID Controller (2 x 2 drive mirrors and 1 x 3 drive RAID5)
Hardware Specs (new server):
Dell PowerEdge 1650
2 x Pentium III 1.26GHz w/ 512K cache.
4GB of memory
3 x 18GB U160 SCSI Drives
Dell PERC3/Di RAID Controller (1 x 3 drive RAID5)
OS Information:
The old server ran Debian Potato with a 2.2.19 kernel.
The new server is running Debian Woody with a 2.4.18 kernel.
Additionally, in the transition we have switched from the use of Thttpd for serving images to the use of RedHat’s TUX Web Server.
Welcome to the new TheOneRing.net, running on its brand new Dell PowerEdge 1650 server! Over the next few days you might find some errors in the site, a side effect of the transition from our previous server to our new one. So bear with us in the meantime, and enjoy the benefits that our new server brings!
Update: If you are interested in the geeky specifics behind the new server follow the link [More]
For many months, TheOneRing.net has searched for a new server to replace the ailing one which has served us so well for so many years. Well, thanks to the support of many of the fans themselves, we have that new server and today we make the transition from old to new. What does this mean? Well, at roughly 13:00 EDT/19:00 CET, the site will cease to exist as we make the change and will do so for at least half an hour and most likely more. So next time you visit the site, hopefully you’ll be using our brand new server!