Servers! Roof!
Yes, my servers are finally in the roof; which means I can relax and wipe everything off my whiteboard. I'm happy. I'm also connected through w1zard who is now our network's personal Proxy server (currently optional, in the long run mandatory). It caches and filters and makes life more streamlined and safer for the old fogeys in the house who are a little naive to say the least (my mother searched Google for "fisting", thinking it was the act of shaking one's fist; which first prompted me to think about setting up a filtering proxy).
Ossum has changed its name to Enosis and still hasn't been worked on very much; but the infrastructure is now in place so the next step is to write a plan and then a tech demo. Fun, fun, fun!
I've received four 7"x5" canvases and finally dug out mum's old acrylics (of which there is a disappointingly small pallet, but it should be significant for the work I have planned); I will be painting four abstract works entitled "Battlefield of the Mind". Pictures once I've actually done it.
I have also begun thinking about considering contemplating starting to ponder the possibility of organising a "Geeknic" over the summer, so if you're a geek in the Tewkesbury area (or a geek who can reasonably travel to the Tewkesbury area) then get in touch, the more the merrier!
Very excited about finally having my desktop back... And my whiteboard, for that matter!
Oh, and started work on a computerised Rubik's Cube solver with the ultimate goal of making a robot that will solve rubik's cubes (hopefully to be shown off at the geeknic).
Servers!
The two servers I ordered from ebay have arrived! £235 for:
w1zard:
- Intel Xeon 3.2GHz (/proc/cpuinfo reports 2 cores)
- 1024MB of RAM (free reports 1023012 bytes)
- 73.1GB 15k RPM SCSI hard disk drive (df reports 67456272 bytes on /)
- 2x1Gb ethernet (both identical Intel 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controllers)
- Floppy disk drive, CD ROM drive, front-availability VGA and 2xUSB
w1tch:
Same as above
W1zard is already up and running, serving you this webpage! W1tch will be up when I work out how to configure the network (I'm thinking internet->router->w1zard->w1tch->war1ock for the time being, with w1tch and war1ock later becoming siblings in a w1zard-controlled network).
Problems encountered so far:
- Missing kettle leads for both servers (borrowed a couple, ordered some from Ebay so I can return the borroed cables)
- W1zard's RAID was set to RAID 0, but the second disk had been removed - so I got a RAID error on first boot - solved by switching RAID off in the BIOS.
- Minor damage to w1tch's front mount thingy, fixed by bending it back the couple of mil it was out by.
They are also very noisy, and very big; which doesn't matter in the long run as their ultimate location will be the attic, but for now they are on my desk and very much in the way.
Both servers also came without any software, but the MBs support PXE; but it was a quicker job to use a Ubuntu 9.10 server edition disk on w1zard - I may experiment with PXE when I get w1tch up and running.
Any questions?
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