So, my Quest for silence in my "Office" is coming along nicely. My Server is now quietly running in the corner, my Linux Desktop got a new CPU Cooler, my Mac Mini is built by pro's and completely silent. That leaves my Gaming Computer, but i tiink i can live with that one. (Yes, i do have to much Hardware)
Been reading a little on all the Ruby on Rails fuss that is going on at the moment. Looks nice, the installation on Debian was pretty easy. (Running lighttpd and Ruby on Rails and PHP via fastcgi. If anyone is interested in how to do it, drop me a line).
I'll need some time to look into Ruby (After my tries in Python and C# i'm not too optimistic about that though, i'm too much of a PHP whore these days). Also been looking for something similar in PHP, but that wasn't successfull so far.
Update:
Found 3 PHP on Rails Projects so far that i should look into as an alternative to learning Ruby
So, yes, i finally got all the Hardware i ordered home. Quite a struggle.
The result of all this is quite good though:
celaneo:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 174.999
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx
bogomips : 2803.79
It''s a Celeron M CPU with 1.4GHz. Using Speedstep (cpudynd on linux) the CPU is actually running at 175MHz when idle!
3 Seagate Barracuda S-ATA Disks get me a nice Raid-5:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 28G 5.6G 21G 22%
tmpfs 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 559G 104G 455G 19% /home
So far the thing is running stable, and if it keeps that way, i will probably replace my Desktop with a Mobile CPU too.
I've ordered some new Hardware a week ago (and if i'm lucky DHL will actually somwhen manage to get the stuff delivered to me) with which i'm going to replace my current File Server Box, which is getting on my nerves with it's nousy coolers and Hard Drives. The new box will have a Fanless Pentium M Notebook CPU and some (hopefully) silent S-ATA Disks.
Beeing the lazy Linux guy i've been getting over the last couple of years (i don't enjoy fiddling with a magnitude of configfiles as i used to.) i think i'm going to give eBox Security Platform a try. That is, if the Hardware wil ever arrive ...
Finally installed Fedora Core 2 test1 on my Workstation. Although a prerelease version it is pretty stable (for me atleast), and i've not come across any major bugs. I love the new Spatial Nautilus which behaves a lot like the good old Amiga Workbench Filemanager, and EFM (The Enlghtenment File Manager, which was hacked up by rasterman). Kernel 2.6 is a breeze, everything is working well, and i've not had a single crash or other odd happenings.
Yay! They made Fedora Core 2 test 1 available. I'm really happy with this distribution, and like the tight release cycle. Gnome 2.6 and Kernel 2.6. 4 CD's to download, but the BitTorrent source should do pretty quick. Hopefully i can test this tomorrow on my spare Computer.
