Technology- Servers
posted in Technology |I’ve been busy the last few days- writing a bunch of code and setting up some machines. I should say that I don’t
have a specific focus of some great buisness idea that I want to tackle yet, but I’ve got a few technology things I’m playing
with. I’ll be putting up some new image libraries on this site in a couple of days that will show off some of the code I’ve written.
In the meantime I’ve also been setting up some servers. This site is running on a Windows 2003 Server box that I’ve had for years-
Its an old Dell PowerEdge SC500 with three (fairly small) disk drives and just a 1.1ghz Celeron. I’ve just recently added PHP and
a full set of other tools to the box.
I also just reformatted another machine I had sitting around with an install of Ubuntu linux. The old machine
was running Media Center, but with no tuner- I was using it for remote viewing of programs since the old extenders suck.
Now that I have an XBox 360, it works as a great extender and I can reuse the machine. I’m busy loading all the assorted packages
on it and it will be interesting to experiment with both boxes to understand better the trade-offs of both environments.
In other technology news that nice XBox 360 already broke- the DVD won’t read any discs, which is fine for use as an extender
but not so fine for playing games. It looks like its going to be weeks before I’m able to get it all repaired which is really annoying.
Kat
beat me to posting about the Stevens Pass season ticket deal. I’ve been up twice in the past week and hoping for another
3 visits in the next week (weather permitting). With all the late-season skiing I’m getting in the next-year pass will
already pay for itself before next year. I’d also like to apologize in advance to all local skiers- our next season is doomed,
whenever I buy a pass the snow is always terrible. Sorry!
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