After my first draft, I discovered a few things: The motherboard was socket type LGA 1156 The CPU was socket type LGA 1155 NewEgg doesn’t list any LGA 1156 CPUs The board has SATA 3 The drives were SATA 6 Using an Active PFC PSU with my plain 6+ year old UPS will cause the PSU to shutdown when the UPS switches to battery Here is the new list: case – Fractal Design […]
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In an effort to ruthlessly eradicate legacy, I’ve decided to upgrade my gateway at the same time as I’m upgrading my development server. NOTE: the list of components, which appears below, has been updated in this post. The gateway box, which I think is about 10 years old, which contains these snippets from /var/run/dmesg.boot: CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz (1999.95-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) This box runs: OpenVPN as
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This is the third in a series of posts about building a new server. What’s happened since? My main development server is acting up again. One of the two HDD in the gmirror has gone off line. Also, I recently read an article about an interesting scam which introduced me to the phrase ruthlessly eradicate legacy. That phrase and strategy lodged firmly in my brain. Those two triggers, along with the urge to
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