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| 2008-06-07 |
| For all those who kicked in when I blegged a couple weeks ago, thank you. I have now proceeded to piss it all away. Our server, the venerable Shirley, is getting close to filled up, mostly with images, so I was going to take it offline and replace it with my development machine from home, to upgrade it at my liesure. All I had to do was put a bit more memory into the development machine and throw in a spare 200GB hard drive I've got laying around. That worked well. Given the relative costs, it made more sense to buy a brand new machine with three GB of memory, a dual core Pentium processor, and a 250 GB hard drive. I will now begin the process of blowing away a brand new install of Windoze Vista and replacing it with Debian Linux, at least as soon as Comcast finishes whatever the hell it is that they're doing. I've been offline since late yesterday afternoon, forced to ride a corner of my next door neighbor's wireless that keeps fading out. I'm going to take my time at it this time, since there's no great hurry. I think we've got 13 GB of hard drive space left, last I looked. There are a few things I'd like to experiment with and this gives me the opportunity. I expect to have the new machine ready to swap out in about a month. I'll post periodic progress reports and/or holler for help when I run into problems. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ride a corner of my next door neighbor's wireless that keeps fading out. You should talk to him about this, maybe leave a new antenna on his door stoop. |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-06-07 17:59 |