Labs
Server Upgraded, Power Increased.
The site is snappy after I moved it to a new home. Yes, my circa 1998 IBM Pentium II desktop-turned-server has served its last page (at least for now). And in its place I have commissioned my dear pegacron, (2002, IBM, PIII) a laptop I bought second hand a few years ago. Not only is the new server quicker, but it is also more power effiecient.
Aspire One, A Review.
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.
Migrating a Gentoo build from drive to drive
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:
Ubuntu 1501
So I am debugging an Ubuntu Hardy Heron Install on a Dell Inspiron 1501, This machine is somewhat old, but still viable. It contains a dual core AMD Turion processor, 1.5 Gigabytes of RAM and a Radeon Xpress 1100.
There is a fatal flaw between the combination of the hardware and software. There is a reoccurring freeze, It locks hard and randomly. I have begun the process of elimination and am basically typing this entry just to push the system to freezing. So far, the system has run a 25 minutes without a freeze so it's looking good.
I've made a corresponding post to the Ubuntu ForumsInteractive Linux Kernel Map
Like google earth, but for the Linux Kernel. Fascinating. I'd like to see one of these for all the major kernels: BSD, XP, Vista, OSX Darwin,
The Linux Kernel hackers map to golden treasure.
