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$%@!#$%@#$% IBM!
Jan. 3rd, 2004 11:42 pmWell, IBM used to make pretty decent servers. But their rack-mount dual Xeon servers suck the galactic muffins!
Friday IBM came into our NOC to replace the motherboards...and now our development machine is worse than flakey...it is now down and out! Thank the Gods we didn't let them touch the production machine!!!!
My home server/super workstation will soon have a brain...or two... I finally ordered a pair of Athlon 2600+ CPUs. According to what I have read, it is easy to overclock them, even with the stock heat sink/fan combo, and take them from 2.133 GHz to 2.3 GHz and beyond. I'll be quite happy to get them to 2.3 GHz, for both Religious reasons, and since that would mean I have the equiv of two Athlon XP 3000+ CPUs! And with Linux's SMP I will have a truly kick-ass machine! But that is good, since it will be my recording workstation for doing music on. And it will have lots of disk space for non-linear mixing and maybe even video editing.
I may turn my older Athlon system into a PVR by simply picking up a mega large HD...I don't really need the view one while recording the other...I have a hard enough time trying to remember when my fav programs are, so this beast can just go off and record them for me, and when I get around to it, watch them. I'll also use it to store episodes I miss using BitTorrent.
I haven't decided what to do about digitizing my CD and record collection...there is a heck of a lot of it, but I don't want to store it in lossy MP3 format...Flac looks good, but I need to find a good flac -> mp3 converter, so I can create music CD-ROMS to play in the car...i've got one of those Radio/CD decks that will play MP3 CD-Rs. Means less swapping of CDs on long trips.
My day was filled with trying to get our load set up and running on an old server, which we did, and then we bashed some bugs, and are generally a lot futher along than we though we would be, based upon having lost a server. And in the evening, I went over to my boss's house, and we watched Peter Gabriel's Secret World DVD (with 5.1 sound!). An amazing experience! Maybe in a couple of weeks, we will do the Growing UP DVD.
Next weekend, my company has it's users' meeting, and I have to be there part of it, but I hope to get away early on Saturday, drive 4 hours to get to GaFilk....and between now and then, I need to restring my beloved Ovation 12-string....I haven't been able to find my fav strings, the Dean Markley electric 12-string set...so the ones I have will not totally be to my liking. :-( At least I have the beastie down here now! I missed it...It's been my musical companion for about 20 years now.
Well, it's getting late, and I should crash soon...good night all!
Friday IBM came into our NOC to replace the motherboards...and now our development machine is worse than flakey...it is now down and out! Thank the Gods we didn't let them touch the production machine!!!!
My home server/super workstation will soon have a brain...or two...
I may turn my older Athlon system into a PVR by simply picking up a mega large HD...I don't really need the view one while recording the other...I have a hard enough time trying to remember when my fav programs are, so this beast can just go off and record them for me, and when I get around to it, watch them. I'll also use it to store episodes I miss using BitTorrent.
I haven't decided what to do about digitizing my CD and record collection...there is a heck of a lot of it, but I don't want to store it in lossy MP3 format...Flac looks good, but I need to find a good flac -> mp3 converter, so I can create music CD-ROMS to play in the car...i've got one of those Radio/CD decks that will play MP3 CD-Rs. Means less swapping of CDs on long trips.
My day was filled with trying to get our load set up and running on an old server, which we did, and then we bashed some bugs, and are generally a lot futher along than we though we would be, based upon having lost a server. And in the evening, I went over to my boss's house, and we watched Peter Gabriel's Secret World DVD (with 5.1 sound!). An amazing experience! Maybe in a couple of weeks, we will do the Growing UP DVD.
Next weekend, my company has it's users' meeting, and I have to be there part of it, but I hope to get away early on Saturday, drive 4 hours to get to GaFilk....and between now and then, I need to restring my beloved Ovation 12-string....I haven't been able to find my fav strings, the Dean Markley electric 12-string set...so the ones I have will not totally be to my liking. :-( At least I have the beastie down here now! I missed it...It's been my musical companion for about 20 years now.
Well, it's getting late, and I should crash soon...good night all!
