As is customary here, I only post when I make changes to the site.  Wordpress is shaping up to be pretty nice to work with.

I’ve been thinking lately about how inexpensive (okay, using that term loosely) it is to actually get some “enterprise class” hardware, provided I have the space/power for it.  A rack, ip kvm, nice switch, ups, ip pdu and some other accessories are definitely attainable as a mere human.  Too bad I currently lack the space to put all of it.

I’m probably the last person to figure this out, but it’s definitely something I’ll be doing once I move into a real house.  The only concern I have now is how “green” I can make it.

At the moment, there don’t seem to be too many options for green hobbyist fileservers.  Sure, I can put together a pretty nice fileserver, but I also pay power bills.  All of the low power options are based around small motherboards with limited pci slots and few sata connectors.  Ideally, I’d find some sort of Atom based motherboard with 5 pci slots and a bunch of onboard sata connectors.  Perhaps even dual intel gbit ethernet.

So when I can get my hands on a motherboard/cpu like that, I’ll be well on my way to massive amounts of storage.  1TB just isn’t enough these days.

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Finally got around to scping my old theme over to the new server.  That wood paneling was getting on my nerves.

Everything is going well.  I’ve decided to get rid of all of the pre-2008 rubbish (8 years of crap, no loss).  Anyhow, I’ll hopefully be posting crap that I learn and dumb things that I do on computer — as that seems pretty common these days.

For example, last night I was upgrading my home server from a hacked up Debian install to run Ubuntu with all of the latest Xen parts (I run a number of virtual machines on it).  I have two Windows VMs that weren’t connecting to the internet.  In all of my poking and prodding to get Xen to correctly set up networking through qemu, I forgot to actually check to see what Windows had to say about the actual network cards.  It turns out that since I upgraded to Xen 3.2.1, the old virtual nics disappeared and new ones appeared.  I don’t run a DHCP server in my main network and since Windows by default uses DHCP for new network adapters, I officially did something stupid.

In addition, the other day I was teaching myself some basic IOS (Cisco’s “Internet Operating System”) and typed shutdown while configuring the port that trunked a few vlans (including the one with access to the outside).  Had to run down the hall…

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