Server Migration

Here is what is on the agenda:

- Update all of my computers

- Migrate my server

The updates are simple enough, but the server migration will be interesting. Why? Well, first of all, I'm going from a whitebox with a 665MHz P3 and 512MB RAM to an IBM Thinkpad 600e with a 366MHz P2 and 224MB RAM. Second, I will have to use an external hard drive over a USB 1.1 port. Finally, given its lesser specs, I will have to decide how much I want to push this server.

I know what you are asking. Why the hell would you do such a thing? Are you a masochist? I might be a masochist, which would explain why I continue to go to my office, but the reason that I am making this move is three-fold.

First, if I am leaving something on all the time, I think it is prudent to pick the one that uses less power.

Second, the external drive holds a backup of data stored on another computer, so the slower bus speed really only effects my backup process (which I do every 2 weeks).

As far as how much I am looking to get out of this system, without X, I can do quite a few things with text and curses based tools. I managed to get a DVD burner in there, so burning discs is a breeze with cdw. Between the mv, cp, and rm commands and mc, I have file management taken care of. On this particular line of Thinkpads, configuring the sound card is a bitch, but once it is working, mp3blaster works well. For text-based web-browsing, I haven't decided between links2, w3m, or elinks yet, but they all do the job. I check my email with alpine. Nano is my text editor of choice, because it is simple (I'm not a programmer, I just need to edit a configuration file every once in a while). Saidar is cool system monitor, as is htop. I would use rtorrent for torrents, but this is a task that I do not think this piece of hardware can handle, though I may, on occasion wget a file or two. For a samba server (both file and print server), an SSH server, and a local DNS cache, I think this laptop will do everything that I need and not cost me as much on electricity (how many DNS cache server can you burn a DVD or listen to LTTLS on).

I'm having fun this weekend. I hope you have fun this weekend, too.

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