Leica releases “Safari Edition” M8.2

Leica recently sent out a press release describing a new special edition version of the M8.2. Dubbed the “Safari Edition” it features an olive green paint job and matte silver colored ELMARIT-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH.lens with a matching Billingham bag. A tribute to the 1960 M3 “Safari Edition”, only 500 of these babies are going to be made. I myself would be more interested in the “Panda Edition” M8.2 (black with silver trim), but the Safari Edition is a collector’s item so there will be the usually over-inflated prices associated with the collector’s market. Don’t be shocked to pay over $10K for this model. Some pundits have decided to pass on this model stating that they prefer to wait for one covered in “reticulated Ostrich testicles”.

PlanetAMD64 Server back online!

Server is up and operational. One table was corrupted in the database, but a quick Repair Table command cleared that up.

Allon-sy!

PlanetAMD64 Server offline

The server that hosts PlanetAMD64/PlanetX64 is currently offline due to a concussed RAID controller. In spite of the fact that I have that server backed up to Mozy Pro, with a RAID 5 plus a hot-spare drive, the one real hardware failure that could kill us happened: RAID controller failure. Technically it's not dead, it just lost the RAID configuration. A call to Adaptec support + $80 USD and the server is back and rebuilding the array. Whew! The server will be operational by noon tomorrow (1/27/2009).

Unfortunately, that server also hosts the primary DNS for all of my domains outside of the Planets (including this one), so I was out of commission for a few days. I have switched DNS hosts for this domain to DynDNS.org and now at least I can get the word out.

I have to see about getting a cluster for the sites to avoid this nonsense in the future.