…its LOUD!
So, I finally managed to gather all the bits and pieces together, power cables, ethernet, SVGA connector etc, plugged the thing in, and Jesus H Christ what a din! For a minute, I thought the Dambusters were overhead.
I’m, of course, referring to the new server mentioned in the last post. No wonder people have special rooms for these things, a man could go deaf venturing within 50 yards of it.
Seriously, it sounded like a plane taking off.
Now this is VERY exciting!
I’ve managed to get my grubby little mitts onto an old Sun Microsystems SunFire V60x S1U Server and I’m trying to figure out what to do with it.
Many thoughts are going through my head, not least which (if any) operating system to install on it. Do I go for Windows? If so which flavour? All research leads me to believe its an x86 server (no EMT64 support) so Windows 2008 R2 is out. What about a small footprint Linux server with no X Server? That’d certainly keep the storage space to an optimum…
BSD based system?
Now consider Solaris or OpenSolaris; it is after all a Sun Server, maybe a the SCSI’s would benefit from some ZFS?
However, since I spend so much time playing with virtual machines, it might be an idea not to use it for storage at all (I do after all back up my laptop to a small external HDD). Maybe I should install VMware ESXi on it and be in remote access virtual heaven?
Choices choices choices…
Having had a couple of days to mull this over, I’ve ruled the ESXi server out, as it appears you need to administer it from a Windows based computer. I’m thinking I’ll probably load OpenSolaris onto it and take it from there. If anyone has any other ideas, feel free to comment…
-EDIT-
I’m putting Ubuntu Server Edition onto it. The machine has 8Gb RAM but its (2) Xeon 3.06GHz processors are 32bit only, so I need an OS that’s going to see all the RAM. Ubuntu x86 Server installs a PAE kernel by default so that makes it easier. I can also use it to administer VM’s and set up a basic file server. In the process I’ll learn a hell of a lot about using the command line, as Ubuntu server has no GUI by default.
Full specs for anyone whose interested:
Fuck, shit, help!
I would like to introduce William Heaton. 7 hours and 20 minutes old. 8lbs 12.5oz. Current residence: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. God bless you son.
Where is it? I mean really, where is it?
We have been waiting on our bundle of joy arriving now for over 9 months and I fear the stork may have got itself lost somewhere over the North Sea.
Just as I thought I had got my head around the concept of arrays, I flicked through the associated question in my latest assignment and realised I knew nothing. I have absolutely no understanding of two-dimensional arrays, sub array processing, while loops, foreach loops (and when and when not to use them), casting etc etc. Continue reading…
Wikipedia describes sleep deprivation as the condition, either chronic or acute, of having had too little sleep. Helpfully, it also notes that long-term sleep deprivation causes death in lab animals and less alarmingly, chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness and clumsiness.
Aldous Huxley, the famous English Novelist and Critic, once wrote: ”Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.”
Jeez, what a day! My fair wife and I decided that we needed more room for stuff. Not least for the new pram, baby bath, cot, etc that would soon be gracing our small abode.
So, after a call to our local storage company and a not so small payment for the hire of a unit for 6 months, we have spent the day lugging what felt like the GDP of Belgium down Easter Road into Leith.
So here’s the story. I have a TMA (assignment to the uninitiated) due on Thursday. Yesterday, when every sane person in Edinburgh was sunning themselves at Portobello beach, or taking long, leisurely strolls in the the sunny meadows of Arthur’s Seat, or sipping ice cold beers down at the shore of Leith, I was stuck behind a laptop screen frantically trying to get a Java iteration to work.
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