2016 — 30 March: Wednesday
I think I shall now simply "declare victory"1 in my migration "back" to static HTML and an AWS web-hosting setup. And the radiator up in my bathroom is now (almost) glowing. So it's time to address my next little challenge, which is more likely to be breakfast than any food-shelf-filling exercise in the short term.
Longer term?
Targets currently include a data de-duplicating exercise that should render unnecessary any NAS capacity upgrading. (Preceded, alas, by what I predict will be a tedious data assessment task.) It's probably better not to dwell on which aspect will entail the greater tedium. As Kai Lung almost puts it: "To regard all data as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among the various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous." (Saying #18.)
There's also the issue of a couple of large piles of garden waste to consider. (Following the weekend's murderous botanical exertions [not on my part, I hasten to add] Technology Towers is temporarily a relatively bramble-free zone.) Plus I face the more pleasant prospect of two lunch dates in the next three days.
And I shall be watching to see if a neighbour retrieves her green bin when she finally realises this week's normal collection day has been "bumped" by a recent religious-and-chocolate spasm involving the cult2 she thoroughly supports.
Don't be so...
... vague, William!
But what else might one expect the Lord to say?
Meanwhile, yet another Indian-accented chap "from British Telecom" wants to talk to me about "my computer Internet connection". He hung up when asked "What makes you think I have a computer?"
My route to analogue...
... audio bliss from the Intel NUC (and thus all my network music files) is re-established3 thanks to a dinky little mini-jack to twin phono adapter in its headphone output, and a moment's resetting from "HDMI audio" to "stereo analogue" out from the built-in audio on the i5 Skylake processor chip. So now all my main audio sources (CDs, Blu-rays, network audio files, and satellite radio) are feeding analogue stereo audio to the wondrous Rotel pre-amp...
... to hand straight across to the power amp without any digital mangling. A very desirable side-effect being to remove the effects of HDCP from the source4 switching. I enjoyed my six-year dalliance with the Zen simplicity of my Audiolab pre-amp / power-amp approach. But the video side of things was too clumsy. The (HDCP-related) deficiencies of the Audiolab have been banished upstairs to gather dust.
Back from a...
... couple of errands, and buying a much-needed drink for the Mazda, I shall now study next week's "Radio Times". One never knows what one might find until one looks.
I've also put back the 250GB SSD I mount as /backup into Skylark, edited its /etc/fstab entry to reflect this, rebooted and... utter desktop redrawing chaos. So I've also now hastily reverted to the more stable of the various window managers available with Mint 17.3 Xfce and all now seems to be redrawing "properly" once again after one further reboot. I'm becoming quite used to the idea that Linux brings with it a whole set of behavioural quirks.
Though I could wish I wasn't quite so adept at stumbling across them.
Molehole's web stats
I don't have a full set of 'molehole' web stats, and I gather (from watching Peter struggle a little) that the process for collecting and displaying them is in any case different on AWS. So I took the precaution of capturing a snapshot of what I did have from the previous ISP before they entirely evaporated in the Texan heat. They start on 26th August 2007 and 'run' until the weekend just gone:
| Year | Unique visitors | Pages served | Bandwidth | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2,625 | 51,763 | 1.17GB | |||
| 2008 | 9,188 | 99,135 | 4.66GB | |||
| 2009 | 7,008 | 76,738 | 3.43GB | |||
| 2010 | 7,399 | 71,231 | 3.69GB | |||
| 2011 | 5,010 | 61,520 | 4.77GB | |||
| 2012 | 3,498 | 66,838 | 2.77GB | |||
| 2013 | 5,970 | 95,401 | 3.78GB | |||
| 2014 | 9,624 | 89,051 | 5.36GB | |||
| 2015 | 9,828 | 88,871 | 5.01GB | |||
| 2016 | 1,807 | 26,796 | 2.13GB |
In this Brave New World, and certainly for the time being, I no longer have any idea what the web traffic is (the bill that Peter gets from Amazon Web Services will shed light on that in due course). I think he plans to host some further web sites (having used the relocation of 'molehole' as a Proof of Concept) so I'm sure he'll come up with a Cunning Plan sooner or later.