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If you want to install Debian on an external drive, you can follow these instructions. THis has the advantage of being portable and persistent, and works for hard drives and flash drives.

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Just Installed Debian on my laptop again a few days ago. Already upgraded to sid repos. I like the new network-manager. I’ll post if anything new comes up.

The server, over the past two weeks or so, has gone through some upgrades. First of all, it now has a third hard drive in its RAID 1 array. Secondly, it now has a third ethernet card, an Intel Pro/1000. This card is connected directly to the NAS used for backups and it is a Gigabit card while the other two cards are only 100mbit cards, so backups should be much faster. Third, it has been upgraded from SDRAM DDR 333 non-ECC RAM to SDRAM DDR 400 ECC. This should provide for extra speed and reliability. Lastly, the server now has backup power. It is powered by a 2U APC Smart-UPS, which is 1400VA/1050W. It also powers some network equipment, including a switch, a router, and a NAS.

The next upgrades are increasing the capacity of the RAM, getting another Gig-e NIC, getting some SATA drives, and a new PSU (I really don’t think 290W is going to cut it after many more upgrades).

I made a stylus that works on laptops and an iPhone for less than a dollar and a watch battery. Read for instructions.

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Well, I got a new server today. Here are the specs, compared with the old server:

Just testing out the new system.

These are the specs of my server. They’re not very good for a server, but I’m too cheap to buy real web hosting, and I want more control than many blog sites give.

2.4GHz CPU
2GB of RAM
Dual 1280×1024 monitors
3 internal hard drives totaling 330GB.
1 External 1TB drive for backups
A 1TB NAS for external storage and backups

This is my new blog, hosted on my own box.