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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Sunday, November 02, 2003
Server Upgrade For a couple hundred bucks (extortion, I know), we upgraded our CPU from 1 GHz to 2 GHz, and we upped our RAM from 64 MB to 128 MB (or it might be 128 MB to 256 MB... I forgot... I just know it was doubled). We actually had to upgrade our entire server. If we upgraded our current server via a la carte style, we'd be paying an additional $50/month. I did notice that our CPU load went down, but it was never really that high. It went down from 5% utilization to 3% utilization. Not sure why we even needed to do that. However, the main reason we upgraded was because of RAM. We were approaching 100% utilization between active, cache, and buffered RAM. I think we went down from 90% utilization to 88% utilization... didn't even really affect anything. I hope it makes a difference. Redhat Linux I bit the bullet and loaded the latest Redhat Linux on my spare 40 GB hard drive. It loaded and installed without incident. I was online in about 20 minutes with Mozilla. What's my take on the experience? Simple: why bother? Trying to load an ATI Radeon 9800 Linux driver requires a bachelor's degree in unix theory. I was never really successful at getting both monitors to work, but I was somewhat successful at getting the OS to recognize the 9800 driver (though it doesn't show up as an option on the display properties). Getting the latest updates was just as easy as Microsoft, though now I have two different kernels to choose from when booting into Linux (not too happy about that). Everything else is a chore, and quite frankly, almost not worth the effort. I suppose if you're broke, and can't afford a license of Windows, it's the best thing available. The only reason I'd ever install Linux and keep it going is to run the Apache webserver. I'm pretty used to Linux now, since our webserver in Dallas uses Apache. I think I might play with that for a while. But I don't ever see myself using Linux freeware office products to update my resume. Microsoft Windows, I hate to admit, is the best thing that ever happened to computing. posted by Dino at 9:42 PM (permanent link) |