Dale's Weblog

Core replacement + Power outage

Busy day yesterday. I decided to try out a dual Pentium3 motherboard. I have two P3 650s although one of them was in core, my router. So the router got a bit of a downgrade yesterday. From a Pentium3 650MHz and 320mb ram (way overkill) to a Pentium2 333MHz and 128mb ram. So anyway I built up this dual box. Dual Pentium3 650, 640mb ram and some really crap 4gb hdd. I really need some hard drives :p
So I was running it last night to make sure it was/is stable. The only problem with it is that it will crash on starting windows if there is no keyboard plugged in. Bit weird, but my Black IBM box does that too. Something to do with an old BIOS and ACPI. But anyway. It lasted all last night running Prime95, so I think it is stable.

This morning there was a power outage that took everything off line. From about 8.30 to 10am. We rang Energy Australia at about 9.45 and power was back in 15 minutes. So that was good. :) I really need to get a few UPS’.

Last day of everyone else’s trials today, so that means back to school tomorrow. Awwww. Oh well.

I’m currently in the process of learning regular expression for some php stuff. After that I plan on working on mod_rewrite. Funky stuff. The following is said about mod_rewrite:

The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.

– Brian Behlendorf
Apache Group

Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.

– Brian Moore
bem@news.cmc.net

hehe, So I should be having fun with that.