I’ve been burning in the system for over 2 month now and I’m starting to gain confidence that the Dell GX280, or \\PLMS2 is working ok. The GX280′s were recycled computers which we bought for $50 without the hard drive. So all you had to do was go out and install a new SATA drive, [...]
I finally broke down and built another Linux box to replace PLMS1(Pacific Landmark Server 1) which died a graceful death a few months ago. Initially I recovered the data from the server and installed it on Ubuntu 7.10 desktop running as a virtual machine on top of my XP desktop. But I’ve been a lucky [...]
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I managed to kill my Windows 2003 server the other day. It happened when I was upgrading it to Service Pack #2 and it ran out of disk space and couldn’t revert back to the previous version. You would think that 1.7G is plenty of space to upgrade, but no…. The server was an old [...]
The only bad thing about I.M. Mortal III, is that Dell provided a mechanical mouse with a ball. I’ve been using the same optical mouse for about 5 years now with out any problems. With the old style ball mouse, I would have to take out the ball and clean it every 3 months and [...]
I managed to fry my motherboard with a little help from Southern Cal Edison. They’ve been having power outages in Thousand Oaks with the last one causing all my servers to shutdown after the UPS ran out of juice. ClknGo Server 1 (cngs1) is a Win2k server that automatically shuts down via a signal from [...]