w00t! ubergeek
Well… I have my new 40GB HD and ATA100 controller card all working nicely now, yay!
The orbitz system (our internal network) now has 200GB of storage - I want my future network to have far more storage - not sure of the “name” for it quite yet though… but I want to slowly creep up to 1 terabyte of storage… yeah! - Have a nice gigantic file server.
I also managed to fix my linux kernel… heh… got to recompile from scratch, none of that simple rpm stuff, lol… but I managed to get new nvidia drivers and also get the “real” enterprise kernel installed… wow, what a difference, now it actually understands how to use 1.5GB of ram… Just need to tweak my X config file a bit and modify the video ram sizes… apparently linux has started to not want to give me all of my ram. I really feel quite accomplished with that though… resurrected my install AND improved performance greatly, lol. My LiLo screen has a bunch of crap on it now… I have four different kernels installed now… the latest 2.4.17 from kernel.org doesn’t seem to want to work right, it goes into Kernel Panic, which is a rather funny name if you ask me, which you didn’t, but I told you anyway, so deal :-p.
I *really* need to tackle SAMBA now… as I’m still completely clueless on how to get linux to be able to browse the network.
I used lynx the other night, lastnight actually, which is a command line/text only browser, that was a very interesting experience to say the very least… lol.
I need a DVD drive and a new power supply fan, my current one is getting to be a bit noisy, I assume the ball bearings are wearing out… blah… Well, It’s been working almost non-stop since 1998, so I guess it’s okay to wear out, slightly short of a typical five year lifespan (constant running). So yay, new controller card, I have 3 open EIDE ATA 100 connections…. Hehe… I have 4 harddrives and a CDRW now (since my cdrom died and I never replaced it, since I needed a DVD anyway… still waiting for them to be a tiny bit cheaper).
I’m still trying to figure out why my server recorded almost 3GB of transfer out of the blue on a brand new domain… I don’t think there is ANYTHING on there that could have accomplished it that quickly… might be some sort of insane glitch that just appeared… perhaps should check with the cpanel people…. ….well… it looks like this happened on another server to someone else today… glitch?