Mrs. Dorotha Mills Hudson, age 82 of Abrams Moore Road, Rutherfordton, died Thursday, October 8, 2009 at White Oak Manor, Rutherfordton. A native of Polk County, she was a daughter of the late Gaston Mills and Sarah Jane Wilson Mills, widow of the late Joe Hudson, a homemaker, and of the Baptist faith. Survivors include her son, Kevin Hudson and his wife Kelly of Rutherfordton; two daughters, Barbara Crews and Donna Hudson, both of Rutherfordton; a brother, Keith Mills; a sister, Helen Brady; and a grandson, Christopher Crews. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Festus Mills; sisters, Lula Mills, Elsie Ruff, and Aberdeen Jackson, and a son-in-law, Don Crews. Funeral services will be held 4:30 Saturday, October 10, 2009 in the Padgett & King Chapel with Rev. Travis Smith officiating. Interment will be private in the Grays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rutherfordton. Visitation will be from 3:30 until the hour of service at the mortuary. The Padgett & King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com.
Recently in Events Category
The last few nights, between 1am and 3am 4am, firebot has been offline, because of an ongoing connectivity issue. At the current time, I have no eta for when the issues will be resolved. The situation is pretty straightforward though, the outages are due to construction along the highway where I live and firebot is hosted, its being expanded to multiple lanes resulting in the need for my ISP, TimeWarner cable / RoadRunner, to move their fiber optic lines to make way for the new road. Though this has been ongoing it would seem they’ve reached the point where the overnight customer-facing work is being done, as each night, like clockwork, the cable has been going out completely.
Other recent events affecting firebot’s stability and connectivity over the past few weeks which are not external that are:
- Migrating to a new server. After 6 years of service, the machine he previously ran on was replaced as another more powerful machine became available. Firebot now runs on an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with 2gb of RAM, 320gb disk running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition.. (Which, while definitely not current, is more than adequate.) Previously it was an Intel Celeron 1.7ghz with 1.2gb of ram, and 120gb disk, which was not performing well anymore. This is also the reason why at times there were two instances of the bot running.
- New network hardware, the network has been upgraded to gigabit (and Wireless-N), requiring the replacement of both the switch his machine was on, as well as the router. This caused a nightly (twice daily actually) connection reset, due to a bug in the firmware of the router and how it handles static dhcp leases (it for some reason, issues a dhcpnack before reissuing the same address to the machine, resulting in a brief loss of connectivity.) I’ve worked around it for now. (For those curious, the router is a Netgear WNR3500.)
Everyone have a happy and safe 4th of July.
Special thoughts to all the members of the US armed forces, a big thank you for all you do.
Dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, The men and women of the military fighting overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to anyone suffering around the world. You're not alone.
All alone in the dark
No walls no windows
Trying hard to define
Heaven from hell
Standing out in the rain
With just one shadow
Nothing to see or believe
Beyond myself
See my life going by
Each moment I'm alive
I keep reaching out, holding on, hoping
Somewhere in my life
There's one light burning
I feel it like my heart beating inside
Somewhere in the night
There's one light burning
All alone with my fears
No words are spoken
A story yet to be told
Locked in my mind
Hope is somewhere ahead
Shining brightly
But the past is always following close behind
See my life going by, each moment I'm alive
I keep reaching out, holding on, hoping
Somewhere in my life
There's one light burning
I feel it like my heart beating inside
Somewhere in the night
There's one light burning!
Glowing in your eyes
Lighting up the sky
Leading the way
One light burning
Somewhere in my life
There's one light burning
I feel it like my heart beating inside
Somewhere in the night
There's one light burning
Glowing in your eyes
Lighting up the sky
Leading the way, leading the way...
Somewhere in my life
There's one light burning
I feel it like my heart beating inside
Somewhere in the night
There's one light burning
Glowing in your eyes
Lighting up the sky
Leading the way, leading the way...
-- Richie Sambora (Stranger in this Town, 1991)
Well, not great, not bad either. I personally was hoping the Eagles would win, just cause the Patriots have been there and done that 2 times before in the last 3 years, but oh well.
Halftime was better than I expected, I figured the NFLs safe pick of Paul McCartney would result in a so-so halftime show, but it was well done, even though Fox could've done much better with the video work of the fireworks and overhead shots of the LED stage.
