A few weeks ago, before I went on holiday (just before), my backup DNS server stopped working… Just dead, PSU works, and no time to investigate. It’s a bit old, and I was itching to do another build, but I had a holiday to go on first.
My backup DNS server has gone down, permanently. The PSU works and yet it won’t switch on.
It’s not a power house, being a 533Mhz EPIA, but it was enough for the task. I’ll take this opportunity to upgrade, using a motherboard and CPU I had lying around, with hard disk and memory from another computer. The only thing I lack is a case, but I’ve ordered one for £23 that’ll do for the short term, and I’ll replace the PSU with an 80plus efficient one later.
Here is an interesting article about Hans Reiser. Freaky.
It is my opinion that the decline of ReiserFS is primarily to do with the problems surrounding Hans Reiser, and a desire not to have that name repeated any more. Which is a crying shame, since it held so much promise.
This is about Ununtu, but first an admission. I run Vista, ok I admit it. It’s slick and smooth, but it doesn’t tolerate badly written software and/or drivers. My install was stable for a while, but slowly went down hill.. After a fresh install all is ok and slick again :-).
I’ve installed Fedora 8 under Sun’s VirtualBox (a superb VM in my opinion). Actually I did it a while ago, but I did make some notes at the time, on how to make it look good. I’d really like to delete that file, so what better way than to publish :-).
I’ve been experimenting with Linux distros lately. It’s all because of this web hosting, this server I built. I used Fedora 8 due to it’s packages being reasonably up to date, having the features I want as standard, and being rather stable. Ubuntu looks good, but I would have had to manually install so much software that I need, that it would have been a pain.
