#9, #9, #9...

[greatbear]

Just a quick post to say that I still exist in one for or another. Work has me busy, as does any number of things at home. Still in the midst of major PC upgrades as well. My workhorse PC is still broken and ignored, in the meantime I am fine tuning a tidy little minimalist PC and using it in place of the busted one. New server is working well aside from occasional DNS service hiccups. Parts have been accumulating for a second server dedicated to file and media storage and backup, and if things work as I hope them to, it will become a mainframe of sorts where I can play around with virtualization and offloading tedious tasks such as video transcoding and other stuffs. It will hide in the basement where it's cool and be remotely accessed from anywhere in and around Casa Greatbear and the Garage of Mayhem. I figure a pair of quad Xeons will go well with the 8.8TB of drives and RAID controllers I've gathered so far.

And I told myself 'no more god boxes'.

Hello, I'm Phil, and I am an incurable geek.

Comments

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

4GB RAM?

Base OS.. a Linux distro?, Server 2008?, what?

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Server '08 and Hyper-V, at least 4gigs of ram with space for more in the future. I'd like to start more futzing with different flavors of Linux one of these days. The little server is running SBS 2003 R2, it's the domain controller and gateway for the whole mess right now.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Me - I'd go for something like Ubuntu 64-bit on an appropriate HW platform with 16GB or more of ram - a thin server install to support VMware (or whatever virtual machine platform I decided to go with) and most real processing would take place in the VMs. ;)

Ah, to dream.... I still have my video editing box's broken mobo to contend with....

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Eight cores leave a lot of room to play in, dont they?

[kdotdammit.livejournal.com]

Hi!!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Hey sexy!

[allsmilesbear.livejournal.com]

happy friday bud hope you have a great weekend! :o)

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Glad to see ya around these parts more often!

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Sorry buddy. I have two servers, a workstation and a laptop in my house. I'm a geek. You left geek about 26 light years ago. That tiny bright dot you see in the distance behind you, that's geek. You, my handsome, sexy friend, have transcended geek.

[jacked01.livejournal.com]

Phil where is the oil drain plug on a 2001 yamaha vstar

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Not owning one or having worked on one, my best guess would be somewhere on the bottom. ;)

Try this.

[jacked01.livejournal.com]

LOL Im hating life right now

I'm unbolting strange bolts at random down there LOL