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I'm a little late posting this entry, but I've actually been quite busy recently and when Monday evening came around all I wanted to do was relax. Even now, two days later I'm tired and kinda want to go back to bed. But today is a special day and I decided that I needed to get stuff done, this being one of those things on my list. Now on to the tech talk that I normally spout.
/TECH
After some deliberation about where my best hardware should be I finally decided to put my better hardware in Doppelganger. So as part of my Independence Day festivities I took down Doppelganger and Phoenix and swapped their hardware. I made backups of Pegasus (my current TeamSpeak server) and Balrog storing them on my external HDD. At first I thought I'd just swap the HDDs between the cases, but then I remembered a critical detail: my video card, the only part not going in Doppelganger, doesn't fit in one of my cases. Motherboard switch it was! Later I realized another small detail that the Sabertooth 990FX motherboard doesn't have on-board video. Low-powered NVidia video card to the rescue once again! I always knew it was good to keep that.
Now Doppelganger has a beautiful rich-featured motherboard, a quad-core AMD FX processor, and 16 glorious GB of DDR3 RAM. I'm especially happy about the RAM. Eventually I'll get another server named Raven setup where it will automatically boot with Doppelganger and launch TeamSpeak Server, Ventrilo Server, and Murmur Server giving me and my friends a full range of voice-over-IP choices. Balrog is happily running along with several scripts I wrote to help me manage it more easily including a pretty sweet update script that downloads the given update, replaces the server jar, updates the message of the day in the server settings, and automatically restarts the server. But between the two VMs I'm hardly utilizing Doppelganger. There must be more. More! MOAR I SEZ! …ahem… Sorry, I devolved for a second there.
After a recent gaming session in EYE: Divine Cybermancy with friends, I decided I needed to setup another dedicated server for the game. It's pretty awesome and it's a Source engine game. Since Source engine games can be run using the same dedicated server application I realized that I could get it running using a Linux server. Since the Source engine is made by Valve and published to the Steam platform, I decided that my Source engine dedicated server would be named Golem. Sadly, I have not spent the time getting it running yet and really need to experiment with the Source dedicated server before I jump into running it on Linux.
My real next task is to setup two VMs for experimentation. One will be a Linux playground and the other a Windows playground. With so many distros of Linux, I'm not sure which flavor I'll use, but I'm thinking just a standard one, like Debian. Windows I have fewer choices, but it tends to be more of a hog and so I'm not sure which version I'll install. Anyway, once those are installed I'll make snapshot backups of each and then I can experiment on the system and mess it up as much as I like. And if I can't fix them, I can just restore from the snapshots.
Besides the Source dedicated server, I've thought about playing with include a private Internet radio server, DNS server, file server, web server, and a SQL server. I'm also hoping that I can buy some large capacity HDDs within the next year to put into Doppelganger and expand the storage to ridiculous sizes. If you have any ideas of what I should experiment with let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can manage.
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
I'm a little late posting this entry, but I've actually been quite busy recently and when Monday evening came around all I wanted to do was relax. Even now, two days later I'm tired and kinda want to go back to bed. But today is a special day and I decided that I needed to get stuff done, this being one of those things on my list. Now on to the tech talk that I normally spout.
/TECH
After some deliberation about where my best hardware should be I finally decided to put my better hardware in Doppelganger. So as part of my Independence Day festivities I took down Doppelganger and Phoenix and swapped their hardware. I made backups of Pegasus (my current TeamSpeak server) and Balrog storing them on my external HDD. At first I thought I'd just swap the HDDs between the cases, but then I remembered a critical detail: my video card, the only part not going in Doppelganger, doesn't fit in one of my cases. Motherboard switch it was! Later I realized another small detail that the Sabertooth 990FX motherboard doesn't have on-board video. Low-powered NVidia video card to the rescue once again! I always knew it was good to keep that.
Now Doppelganger has a beautiful rich-featured motherboard, a quad-core AMD FX processor, and 16 glorious GB of DDR3 RAM. I'm especially happy about the RAM. Eventually I'll get another server named Raven setup where it will automatically boot with Doppelganger and launch TeamSpeak Server, Ventrilo Server, and Murmur Server giving me and my friends a full range of voice-over-IP choices. Balrog is happily running along with several scripts I wrote to help me manage it more easily including a pretty sweet update script that downloads the given update, replaces the server jar, updates the message of the day in the server settings, and automatically restarts the server. But between the two VMs I'm hardly utilizing Doppelganger. There must be more. More! MOAR I SEZ! …ahem… Sorry, I devolved for a second there.
After a recent gaming session in EYE: Divine Cybermancy with friends, I decided I needed to setup another dedicated server for the game. It's pretty awesome and it's a Source engine game. Since Source engine games can be run using the same dedicated server application I realized that I could get it running using a Linux server. Since the Source engine is made by Valve and published to the Steam platform, I decided that my Source engine dedicated server would be named Golem. Sadly, I have not spent the time getting it running yet and really need to experiment with the Source dedicated server before I jump into running it on Linux.
My real next task is to setup two VMs for experimentation. One will be a Linux playground and the other a Windows playground. With so many distros of Linux, I'm not sure which flavor I'll use, but I'm thinking just a standard one, like Debian. Windows I have fewer choices, but it tends to be more of a hog and so I'm not sure which version I'll install. Anyway, once those are installed I'll make snapshot backups of each and then I can experiment on the system and mess it up as much as I like. And if I can't fix them, I can just restore from the snapshots.
Besides the Source dedicated server, I've thought about playing with include a private Internet radio server, DNS server, file server, web server, and a SQL server. I'm also hoping that I can buy some large capacity HDDs within the next year to put into Doppelganger and expand the storage to ridiculous sizes. If you have any ideas of what I should experiment with let me know in the comments and I'll see what I can manage.
Until next time:
Work hard. Play harder.
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