Server
We’re in Morton now, and we’ll be here until Wednesday.
A few days ago, a friend’s dad gave me a spare Compaq Proliant 2500 server he had sitting around. I think it’s from 1999, and he said it cost about $6,500 at the time. It has five 2.1GB hot-swappable hard drives, a 200MHz processor, and 512MB RAM. So it doesn’t have all that much space, but my websites aren’t very big anyway.
But when I tried to boot it up, it would come up with “Non-system disk or disk error”. So we took it to Morton hoping Grampa Dan could help me with it. After some tinkering, we found out that the only OS installed on it was DOS 6, which is… well, yeah. So we installed Windows XP (he just happened to have two Windows XP CDs sitting around, one from China, one from the Philippines), and now it works.
I’m not familiar with Windows servers, so I don’t know if I need the Windows server software to use it as a server or not, but the person who gave it to me said he’ll be bringing the software later this week. I’ll probably install Linux on it anyway, though.
On another note, one of the things I got for Christmas is a book that tells how to make a hydrogen bomb! (Thanks Uncle Steve!) Bwahahahahaha…!
December 27th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Oob…if you wanna use a Linux distro, go with MEPIS…actually, one vesion in particular, MEPISLite, for PCs with lower specs. Easy installation, and comes with KDE. It’s one of the easier-to-use distros too.
Hmm…..does this mean I could get some hosting space on your server?
Or….maybe we could start a site that would make us some cash….ooh……I have great idea. XD
December 27th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
Okay, thanks. I’ll use MEPISLite.
Heh, sure.
By the way, are you going to join The Byte Factory?
December 27th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Byte Factory? Explaineth, if you would.
December 27th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
My software company. Daniel’s a part of it too.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:36 am
thats hott
December 28th, 2005 at 10:54 am
Indeed ’tis, Anonymous.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Oh. Uh…sure, count me in.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
OK, kewl.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
w00t
December 28th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
Oh, BTW, I just clicked the link…you got Gonzo Gizmos? I saw that in the Lindsay Technical Books catalog.
December 30th, 2005 at 11:15 am
Oob…what an incredible pheonamonan my uncle had a spare hpwindowsxlmnop lyin around too!
December 30th, 2005 at 11:18 am
this page you have created is magic! i would like to put u up for election for the 46852459 windows XP 5000 competion on january 12, 2009
{comput. class president}
December 31st, 2005 at 6:56 pm
We have secretly been tracking/following/observing your technicle computer dicoveries. Especially the Linux distro, go with MEPIS…actually, one vesion in particular, MEPISLite, for PCs with lower specs. It is all extreemly impressive. We would like you to get in touch with you inner Windows computer though. over and out!