No, not the bug spray. RAID means “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks”. It is a term used in the computing world for a collection of hard drives with fault tolerance so if one drive were to die, you could just replace it without downtime. Up here at work we just got a new server with …
Category: Computing
Jan 31
Been room cleaning
I have been cleaning up my computer room since we moved into our house last year. It is one of those slow processes as I have limited space and not the whole house. It is coming along good and the servers are working good in the closet. I just need to clean the work bench …
Jan 14
Setting up RAID 1
If I get time this weekend I plan to throw two 30gig drives in an older computer I have sitting around and use one of the Promise RAID cards for binding them together. I then plan to Install Windows 2000 Professional. It will be a backup server and backup workstation for my Dad to use. …
Dec 22
Updating phpBB2
If anyone is in doubt or outright does not know, phpbb2 is a message board system. I had to update it on two sites today. One of them I used as a test since it is not being used yet. It is www.digitalsheep.org. The other is used a lot so I did it second which …
Dec 19
Firewire it was called, and it was good…
I recently got a 3.5″ hard drive enclosure that has both Firewire and USB 2.0 connections on it. I did not want to use the usb side of things for a perm. solution so I went ahead and got a Firewire card. One thing I can say is that it may not be hooked directly …
Nov 18
Tired of spam related crap
You know, it really irritates me when I come to make an entry and find that I have gotten spam comments. I really do not like having to delete them. It seems to be happening once a week or so. Anyway, lates…
Nov 10
Firefox is 1.0
I don’t know about you but I plan to start using it asap to see how the whole version number handles. I almost never use Internet Explorer now except for the Windows Update.
Nov 08
kiosking around
One of the many things on my plate is trying to get a Linux-based kiosk working for where I work. I have to get it stable then lock it down but make it still useable. I plan to use Firefox as the browser as it works rather well in Windows and Linux. I wanted to …
Oct 04
Authentication methods…
A question was presented to me today regarding authentication methods for Windows 2000 servers(and *nix ones) across the Internet so only one login is necessary. While I think there are a few fielded answers, finding one to implement that is secure is not necessarily easy. RADIUS was proposed but Windows 2000 I am not sure …
Sep 27
She’s ALIVE…again
I finally got my Win2k Server running again. I got a storage repository again. w00t… I still have it sitting on the bench though making sure it works fine before I hold the heavy-assed thing in the air with one arm and screw it back into the rack(yes, the case is rack-mountable). Once this one …
Sep 23
Learning more and more…
Time has not been kind to me. I have to soon find time to get my Windows 2000 server going again and I plan to rebuild my Unix server that is running FreeBSD. I might wait until the 5.x series goes to stable if it has not already. It really depends on my mood of …
Mar 26
theuncle.com a go go
“theuncle.com” is going to be moving hosting companies in the next few days. I am hoping the downtime will be kept to a minimum but one can only hope. I know I have not been updating for a while but I have been busy with work and other endeavors. I hopefully will have enough time …
Nov 19
IT LIVES!!!
Kramer was revived and is working again. I do not, as of yet, have Active Directory enabled on it but it is working fine as a local file server again. Now, my main system can back itself up to somewhere again. I am working on a computer right now that I am thinking of calling …
Nov 12
Kramer problems
Yeah, I know it has been a few days or more since I last updated but being busy or tired tends to take up my time right now. Yesterday I was off of work because the banks were closed. Gotta love those bank holidays. Kramer, which is my Win2k Server, decided to die. I had …
Nov 03
An Apple Mac with a life to live.
This past Sunday I got an Apple Macintosh G3 Tower from my father. He got it somewhere free and did not want it so I got to take it and ponder on the madness that is Apple Corp. While the processor is not that high on the Megahertz arena the operating system came up pretty …
Oct 11
USB Hard Drives…
Well, I have had a USB 2.0 drive enclosure case for a while. I finally felt like using it more and more. It is holding up under a lot of work so it seems stable. I have a 30Gig drive in it and it is detected fine under Windows and Linux. On another note, my …
Oct 03
Not enough Keyboards…Or too many…
I need to dig up another keyboard. I know I have 10 or 20 of them somewhere. Well, AT style with the DIN connector types. I had to rehook the keyboard to the lackofpants.com webserver which is on my home connection tonight as the lights blinked and reset all the computers. Oh well, it is …
Sep 30
Laptop temptations…
I am thinking of trying to put FreeBSD on my laptop. I was doing some research and it looks like everything will work on it but the only real way to know is to try it out. I think I will try ‘FreeBSD 4.8-Release’ as it should be a bit more stable than the 5.1 …