{"id":68,"date":"2005-02-01T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-06-22T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T19:17:58","slug":"here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that anyone noticed (or cares), but I switched servers again. My Inner Geek wouldn&#8217;t let me work with a substandard piece of equipment when a much better substandard piece of equipment was just sitting here in my office, begging to be used. (What passes for) my <em>pride<\/em> was at stake!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now hosting Uncle Andrew Dot Net on a highly Frankensteined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymac.com\/systems\/powercc\/powertower_pro\/powertower_pro225.html\">Power Computing PowerTower Pro 225<\/a>. I dumped a spare G3\/400 processor upgrade into it, along with an ATA controller card, 80 gig hard drive, 768 megs of RAM and a 10\/100 Ethernet card. Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/OSXCenter\/XPostFacto\/\">XPostFacto<\/a> allowed me to install OS X, which allowed me to use Apache and MySQL to get the blog up and running.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to name my computers after prehistoric sea creatures (ammonite, trilobyte, celocanth, etc.). When it came to this new server, I settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinos\/Archelon.shtml\">Archelon<\/a>, a giant prehistoric sea turtle. Something about the combination of large size and ponderous speed really resonated with me in regards to this computer.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>All in all Archelon is a significant imrovement over Ichabod the Headless PowerBook:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>faster processor<\/li>\n<li>more RAM<\/li>\n<li>larger, faster hard drive<\/li>\n<li>capable of using OS X&#8217;s built-in drive mirroring capabilities<\/li>\n<li>100baseTX full-duplex Ethernet, versus 10baseT half-duplex on Ichabod<\/li>\n<li>six PCI slots, which means more expansion capabilities<\/li>\n<li>better power management; I like to shut down and restart my server automatically in the middle of the night, and for whatever reason Ichabod wasn&#8217;t up to the task<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully this will be the last of the tinkering with the server for a while, so I can get back to tinkering with my Web cam(s). I&#8217;m thinking of taking one to my parents&#8217; place in Hawaii and training it on their indoor koi pond. More on (moron?) this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that anyone noticed (or cares), but I switched servers again. My Inner Geek wouldn&#8217;t let me work with a substandard piece of equipment when a much better substandard piece of equipment was just sitting here in my office, begging to be used. (What passes for) my pride was at stake! I&#8217;m now hosting Uncle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}