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April 27, 2005
New Motherboard and CPU
I just ordered a great bundle deal from TigerDirect:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=MBM-K8V-3400&sourceid=qIZcQm@5kXb0AcC5@YKj&siteid=0029407737&CMP=AFC-AFFIL
This is an Athlon 64 3400+ processor and a great motherboard (the K8V SE Deluxe). 3 IDE on the motherboard, 2 (I think) SATA, 3 DIMM sockets and 5 PCI+1AGP. Also has gigabit ethernet, sound and firewire on the motherboard. My current server has separate PCI cards for each of those, plus 3 (I think; possibly only 2) ATA-100 cards to run my 7 ata devices.
My current plan is to build this out to replace my existing (dual celeron 550) linux file server. But OTOH that would be a waste of an insanely powerful machine. So maybe I'll do something else with it instead.
Someone needs to stop me before I buy hardware. :-) Oy...
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April 16, 2005
iPodder
Thanks to Andy Ihnatko, I found iPodder 2.0 at SourceForge http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php.
Downloading it now, will play with it (probably) soon.
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April 15, 2005
Testing Guidelines
an interesting article at http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/category/9834.aspx?Show=All.
Basically a bunch of links to articles/comments about unit tests.
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April 14, 2005
Firewire disks on linux!
http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/sysresource/disks/fire_admin.html
Basically, I plugged in the disk, removed various modules that were already loaded (ohci1394, sbp2, ieee1394), then ran modprobe -v ochi1394 which reloaded the modules; typed "dmesg" to verify where the disk showed up (/dev/sda), ran fdisk and mkfs.reiserfs to create the file system, and there we have it.
Now I just hope I can copy most or all of the crap off the raid before the server dies repeatedly... :-\
This url: http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Linux/LINUX_InstallingIEEE1394FireWireHardDriveLinux.shtml seems to (slightly) abstract the info from the first URL.
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