I’ve realized that I’m going to need some cables inside this box. 4x SATA Power Splitter Adapter Cable – perhaps 2 x $12 each 3ware CBL-SFF8087OCF-10M 1 Unit of 1M Multi-lane Internal (SFF-8087) Serial ATA Breakout Cable – 2 x $20 each
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After posting the original plan, I’ve made a few changes, highlighted below in bold Here is what I’m thinking of getting: SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard : $224.99 AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $259.99 Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory : 4 x $59.99 = $239.96 PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W
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I think I may have to put together a new server. For home use. Here is what I’m thinking of getting: SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-O ATX Server Motherboard : $224.99 AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz 8 x 512KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket G34 115W 8-Core Server : $259.99 Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory : 4 x $59.99 = $239.96 PC Power and Cooling Silencer MK III 600W
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This is the sixth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I imported the comments from my website into the WordPress database. The comments in question are feedback on the articles on the website. I consider them to be an important part of the website. The comments on an article can be simple questions and answers, or careful elaborations upon an obscure point.
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This is the fifth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I imported the authors from my website into the WordPress database. This step was important to me because I am not the only contributor to The FreeBSD Diary. The WordPress Structure First, let’s look at the WordPress structure to see what is available to us. WordPress uses MySQL as a database. Although
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This is the fourth in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I exported my existing website into an XML file, which I then imported into WordPress. All this was possible because of the preparations previously described. I was fortunate in that my website already had an RSS feed. It did not contain everything needed to do an import, but it did represent a
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I’m sitting in the The Warden – FreeBSD and Linux Jail Management talk at EuroBSDCon 2012. He has mentioned two things, so far, that give me ideas. Evil ideas. Put each jail in a different ZFS data set – this may be useful for my jails running Bacula regression testing Schedule cron jobs to do snapshots on a regular basis – useful for snapshots, which I’m not really using at all And he’s
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Things are looking better now: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 19:43:16 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 253 5.6 7.3 3.2 143.0 15.6 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 4.9 5.1 3.0 36.2 4.1 3. so-3-1-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 5.4 11.8 3.0 136.5 23.2 4. so-0-2-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 0.0% 252 62.9 21.4 5.5 130.4 24.8 xe-0-1-0-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-1-8-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net xe-1-0-4-0.NWRK-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net 5. so-7-2-0-0.NWRK-CORE-RTR2.verizon-gni.net
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Here’s packet loss to one of the Verizon DNS servers: My traceroute [v0.82] bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:58:53 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni.net 10.7% 140 4.3 5.2 3.2 42.2 3.8 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net 8.6% 140 3.2 5.4 3.1 30.5 3.7 3. so-9-0-0-0.PHIL-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 4.3% 140 5.9 11.3 3.2 89.0 14.6 4. so-7-1-0-0.PHIL-CORE-RTR1.verizon-gni.net 7.9% 140 3.7 5.8
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This is interesting. From my gateway to one of my servers, the packet loss is pretty big: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:15:36 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni 3.4% 119 4.8 6.1 3.2 60.1 7.4 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-g 8.4% 119 5.5 5.6 3.1 33.0 4.4 3. 130.81.199.18 4.2% 119 5.6 16.6 3.0 228.0 33.6 4. 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET
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