Intermittant notes on what I'm up to.

March 3rd 2002

Long time no update :

• Upgraded beer with two hard disks - nice IBM Ultra-160 LVD SCSI models. I thought I was tripling the capacity, but it's more than that actually (18 -> 90 GB is a 5X improvement come to think of it!). Anyway, here's a link the IBM page for them. I would be careful buying from that page. It's not clear, but they only sell the 9gig model at the moment. I found the 36gig kind for less money via Pricewatch - in fact a grand total of $442.69 for the both including tax and shipping from computergiants
• To drive an LVD Ultra-160 drive you need an lvd capable controller. I use the Tekram DC-390U2W which works nicely with the NCR53c8xx driver and has backwards compatibility to older scsi types (it has the internal ultra2/lvd connector, the regular 68-pin ultra-wide internal connector, a 50-pin internal SCSI-2 connector and an external 68-pin ultra-wide connector - really that's enough for many, many cases). I had to set the jumpers myself even though the SCSI BIOS on the host adapter suppports SCAM ("SCSI Configured AutoMatically").
• Installed rsync on tweety for Nick's project.
• Finished off my World Trade Center Tribute.
• Added account and webspace for for Ken Rossman's stuff.

I could't say if SCSI is strictly worth the money, but beer now has the following peripherals all working smoothly (never a hiccup) : Internal

• 4 hard disks (2 40MB/s 9GB UW, 2 80MB/s 36GB ultra-160 lvd)
• zip drive
• cd-rw drive
• tape drive

• flatbed scanner
• negative scanner
• 24X external cd-rom

August 26th 2001

Some recent stuff :

• Replaced dumpster with tweety (AMD Athlon Thunderbird 750MHz, 192MB RAM, 40GB HD).
• Upgraded several machines to slackware 8.0
• Installed GNU Mailman for testing to support canalplan mailing lists.
• Installed KVM switch for controlling several different PCs under my desk.
• Installed Rune full version (ordered direct from Loki Games) - also have Tribes 2 not even installed yet. Blasted through about 8-10 levels so far.
• Rearranged computer room to give Barbara more room to sit at her desk.

Wednesday July 4th 2001

Updated Linux setup page.

Changed top-level page to give equal billing to Nick's pages as my own (he gets more hits than me!). This means the default page is about as small as possible. Anyone who comes here a lot can obviously bookmark whatever they like.

Fixed some references to old email addresses.

Reset Leon's password by request.

Sunday April 22nd 2001

Created worklog.

Worked on Slackware 7.2 upgrade to dumpster and beer.

Reenabled Nick's account. Also Steve and Tim.

Made a slackware prototype file for Ruby.

Fixed the kernel for cd sound, printing. midi etc needs more work.

Wrote to Tim about ssh.