Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Goliath Online

(bonus points for anyone who got or laughed at the Starcraft reference in the title)

Yesterday my last replacement hard drive came and I was finally able to get my new server up and running (and it's been busily copying ever since). Total time to being up and running - the original order was July 20th, and it was able to start copying files to yesterday (August 12th). This included:
  • Originally ordered parts July 20th, arrived August 1st
  • First set of (incorrect) SAS/SATA cables ordered August 4th, arrived August 6th
  • Second set of (correct) SAS/SATA cables ordered August 6th, arrived August 8th
  • Discovered "bad" hard drive (1 out of original 8) on August 8th, and after checking everywhere in town and finding out nowhere sold this particular model, ordered a replacement August 8th, arrived August 12th.
Many many thanks to friend Chris for all his advice and for letting me borrow his spare drives for temp copying.

Since I'm a geek and keep track of this stuff, here is a list of my "computer history" in chronological order:

COMPUTERS
  • Apple IIGS (1) 1988
  • Apple IIGS (2) 1993
  • Gateway Pentium 60 DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 (1994-1996)
  • Gateway Pentium 166 DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 (1996-2000)
  • AMD Athlon 700 Windows 98/Windows XP (2000-2003)
(all the rest I built myself - and named with Babylon 5 theme)
  • "vorlon" Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Windows XP (2003-2005) [desktop]
  • "shadow" Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Windows XP (2004-2005) [desktop]
  • "kosh" AMD Athlon 64 3000 Windows XP (2005-2006) [desktop]
  • "sinclair" Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz SUSE Linux 10 (2005-2008) [server]
  • "whitestar" AMD Athlon 64 3000 Windows XP64 (2006-present) [media PC]
  • "gkar" AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 Windows XP (2006-present) [desktop]
  • "garibaldi" Intel Dual-Xeon Dual-Core 5205 1.86 GHz Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (2008-present) [server]
MONITORS
  • Gateway Crystalscan 15" CRT (1995-1996)
  • Gateway Sony Vivatron 17" CRT (1996-2004)
  • IBM P200 20" CRT (refurbished) (2000-)
  • Dell 1901FP 19" LCD Flat Panel (2004-)
PRINTERS
  • Apple Imagewriter II dot matrix color
  • HP Laserjet 5L laser B&W (1996- 2007)
  • HP Deskjet 930C inkjet color ( - 2007)
  • HP Color Laserjet 1600 (2007 - )
More than you EVER wanted to know!

1 comment:

Shelley Kubitz Mahannah said...

Your nerdiness knows no bounds. But we love you anyway! :)