[frgeek-michiana] Volunteer database
- From: Richard Zimmerman <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Free Geek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:43:09 -0500
Ok, things didn't go so well in the Goose lab this weekend.
1. I took Friday off to get some stuff done that wasn't happening. Day
starts with the Gateway P3-500 crashing a lot... Ok, spend 5 hours
downloading Windows drivers, installing Windows, changing my mind,
reconfiguring the hardware and reinstalling again on my new hotrod (XP
+2000, 512mb, 20g+10g hd). Ok, with that done I turn my attention to my
Linux box Galactica (my gateway machine) to clean up some emwin scripts
before I backup the box.
BTW on the AMD heat issue... YES, it generates a heck of a lot of heat!
I've got 2 fans alone cooling the pci slots and the North/South bridge
chips! This motherboard has a 2 inch set of fins on the North bridge
chip! I ended up modding the case to hold one of the fans where I needed
it. Yes, the Dremel was called to duty! A really nice installation
overall. <mental note> Don't Dremel on the desktop, the mess was hell to
clean up.
As far as cleaning up stuff on Galactica... Needless to say that was a
mistake! An errant 'rm -rf' nipped me in the #$%^#%^#^#$ again... :( I
lost /etc right off the top so the box was hosed. I saved what I could
off the box and reinstalled Debian on it. Actually, looking back on
this, it proved to be a good thing.
With Friday and a better part of Saturday now gone dealing with the
problems, I chill Saturday evening.
Sunday brought good fortunes again! I took the now old P3-500 and threw
Debian on it to make it the database server. I also managed to get
XFCE4, audacity and vncserver working well with it! So I have a database
/ audio server now. Previous research tells me by adding a hardware
based mpeg encoder/decoder/tuner card + MythTV and I've got a full blown
DVR! This is pretty sweet. I can sit on the couch with the laptop and
remotely control Poseidon (the database / audio server)!
It's kind of cool but weird editing audio at my desk but hearing the
audio coming from across the room! It takes a little getting used to.
The P3-500 was able to sample the audio just fine AND send the heavy
graphical traffic back to my desk over the network! I am surprised that
it could keep up with everything! Good stuff.
This morning I created my 'super user' account on Postgresql and opened
it up to connections on the local network. After I restore my source
scripts for the volunteer database project I'll be ready to start
coding! I had hoped to be coding this by now. <frown> Tonight I need to
reinstall apache on Galactica and get it secured once again. My plan is
to use the home lan for testing / development and initial implementation.
Goose
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Richard "Goose" Zimmerman
Safety Assistant / IT Guru
K&B Transport, Inc. - Elkhart, IN
(574) 389-1986 (574) 389-8527 Fax
(800) 548-2718 (574) 850-5764 Cell
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