MOTD:

During our latest journeys in outer space, we found some previously uncharted space. Colonization ships have been sent to inhabit it with hundreds of thousands of fresh new bytes and nibbles..

Outer space server info

 Hardware

Earlier we had an instance of the infamous Abit BP6 motherboard with two celerons running at 550MHz. The stability was awful, and the last week before we dumped it, it crashed some 8 times..

Now (since Wed Sep 12 17:50:01 EEST 2001) we have a brand new Asus A7V133-C motherboard with the cheapest duron we could get, which was a 750MHz one. It has been working excellently ever since it was first booted. The uptime of the first boot was 56 days (until we booted to upgrade the kernel).. a number we could only dream of with the old Abit mobo..

The server has got 520GB of diskspace and 512MB of ram. Additionally it contains a sound card, two network cards, a graphics card, a video digitizing card, a 250W power supply and a small tower case. The case cover later (early '02) got replaced by sound dampening material, and it is pretty quiet now.

As of 3.1.2005 the following hardware will be installed:

• Asus A8V Deluxe wifi-g [anandtech review]
• Athlon 64 3200+ socket939 90nm 1000HT 1800MHz 512L2 [comparision chart]
• 1G of DDR400 cl2.5 memory
• Nexus NX-3500 350W power supply
• Nexus AOP-6400 processor fan

 Software

A long time ago, the server used Linux Mandrake 7.2 with the 2.4.14 kernel. The disks were been glued together with LVM and all partitions except /boot were reiserfs.

Now I have Gentoo Linux running 2.4.28. And LVM2 is in use instead. It will change to 2.6.10 when my new athlon64 gets installed.