RIP: My Dual Celeron BP6
My server died a painful and ignimonious death on Friday. An
ABit BP6
dual-processor motherboard sporting two Celeron 300MHz processors. It was the first PC I ever
bought, after being an Amiga user for over a decade, and although it spent a stupid amount of time
just running Windows 98 (stupid because 98 didn't use the second processor). I
meant to put Linux
on it and continue shunning Microsoft, but soon found that the Linuxes of the day really sucked
and the temptation to play games was just too great, so I caved.
I upgraded my desktop machine a couple years later, and that gave me the surplus hardware to put together what was to be a really kick-ass OpenBSD server. OpenBSD had a disagreement with the motherboard, though, and I eventually settled on Linux. Which is only right. This machine was made for Linux after all.
I was going to decommission her soon anyway, once again putting my desktop out to pasture as a server machine (and/or media centre, I haven't decided on that yet). It looks like I'm going to have to accelerate that process now. The harddrive controller is futzed, I think. The thing reboots any time the drive does anything too intensive. Very frustrating.
Good-bye my little BP6. You had two processors before two processors was cool. You were a hacker's delight. You will be missed.
It might take me a while to get the journal portion of the site back up and running again. I'm running this on the computer my sister had through university. It kinda sucks. But the real reason is my database backup is a little inaccessible at the moment.
If you want to keep up with what I'm doing in the meantime, you can visit my livejournal which, to be honest, has been updated a lot more than this site has for a while anyway. (You should get an account too, so I can add you as a friend. Then you'll get special bonus stuff normal people don't get. Just sayin'...).
I'm also playing with Ruby on Rails a bit too, just for fun. It's possible this site might come back on that rather than PHP. Haven't decided yet.
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