Fenix

 I've decided to try something non-conventional.  I will be configuring this server to shut itself down at midnight, and to power up at 8am.  (Times are PST).  This will happen on a daily basis, and will be subject to tweaking.

 My reasoning behind this move is as follows:

1.  I don't think very many people visit my site, and those who do, probably don't do it very late at night.

2.  These are my sleeping hours, and considering that my computer is in my room, I will appreciate the silence.

3.  By cutting the operating hours of the server by 1/3, I will be reducing the electricity usage similarily.

4.  This site should still be accessible by Google cache, my site is not incredibly interactive, so this shouldn't be too problematic.

I will run this experiment until I am overburdened with complaint, or until I realize the error of my ways.

 Thank you for your readership,

Jade Lacosse.

Lightweight and deceivingly small, the Aspire One is as sexy as it is cheap. Its keyboard is accommodating for large and small hands alike. Its prepackaged software is well rounded and functionally complete. Gracefully, its shortcomings are outweighed.

Have you ever found yourself in a computer rut with no place to turn to?

Have you ever wished someone could just transport in to quickly fix a problem?

Perhaps you live far from the closest computer tech.

Well I am pleased to make my services known.

I am ready and willing to make your life easier.

I prefer to fix Linux problems, but am willing to fix windows problems,

hopefully, one day, I will fix the windows problem.

Drop me a line, you have my contact info.

Ours is an age of information, my community is one of data.

I dropped $90 for a 500GB Hard Drive, a fine price if you ask me.

I am running an amazing* little IBM ThinkCentre, pentium 4 w/hyperthreading. A gigabyte of mismatched DDR, An old Geforce 6200 that a friend had no use for. And up till now, two 40GB PATA Hard Drives. 

(* Amazing that the government would throw this out)

 So now came the challenge of throwing these things together. My colleague Adam, recently tried to image a Copy of SuSe 10 from one drive to another using dd (the data destroyer), and unlike when the same process is applied to a windows machine, was not properly booting.  Now, I have no idea why SuSe Linux install doesn't like being mirrored using dd, but I have heard that Gentoo can be mirrored using rsync.

I struggled to make room for the new drive and eventually succeed. I had to remove the floppy drive and toss the new drive on top of my older storage drive.  It still sits there now, and I think I should fix it and take out the old primary drive.

 Anyway, here's how I did it: