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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People often talk about security. There are many different types of security. Personal security. Security theater. Physical security. In this post, we’ll talk about securing communications channels so that others cannot listen in, and so that others cannot connect. In this article, I’ll talk about using a toolkit, ssl-admin, to create a certificate authority, create self-signed certificates, and use them for both backups (via Bacula) and for a VPN (using OpenVPN). We will
I wrote this some time ago, but never published it. Here we go… Bacula is a fantastic backup solution. It’s open source. It uses a database to keep track of backups. I’ve been writing recently about using ssl-admin as a certificate authority tool. Today, I started using ssl-admin for generating certificates for my backup clients. In this post, I’m using Bacula 5.2.12 and using this reference page as a guide. I started playing
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