[geeks] Today was a Good Day

[Mark]

I've had a fun day today.

This morning I went on a 6 mile walk around the hills here with my  
parental units, really nice warm sunny day and lovely scenery. Company  
wasn't bad either ;)

I also recompiled the NetBSD 4.0 cobalt-mips kernel on my Qube2 (well,  
it's a Gateway Microserver technically) to allow the use of a FireWire  
PCI card in the PCI slot, which allows the use of IP-over-FireWire and  
FW400 Mass Storage devices.
You still have to mount them manually at the moment, so if anyone  
knows how to setup dynamic auto-mounting of HotPlug storage devices in  
NetBSD then I'd appreciate some tips :P The potential as a quiet, high  
volume NAS box is really intriguing me.

I watched some really exciting and entreating Superbike racing  
(motorbikes what I do for sports entertainment).

I also got an Intel ISP-1100 server in. It looks unused, but it's  
probably just been in a clean server room :). No hard drive fitted  
(must have been sprung out for data security reasons). It's packing a  
PIII/800, I've upped it to 768MB of ECC RAM and plan on installing a  
decent size (sub 132GB) hard drive. I will ultimately hopefully CoLo  
it somewhere, as it's not feasible to run it in the house (low power  
but HIGH NOISE!!). As it's a 1U it's ideal for a pay-per-U colo.
I'm looking for good OS suggestions. I'm slowly getting to grips with  
NetBSD on the cobalt, and I have extensive experience of most of  
Linux. I'm looking for stability and security so BSD might win,  
depends if I can suss it out fully or not.

It's days like this I am thankful to be a geek, and a human, and live  
where I live and have my parents :)

Only down side is... I've got to go to $work tomorrow!


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