running Ubuntu Server downstairs

Haven’t written in a while.

While I didn’t get a gPC (not a Walmart fan, and it was underpowered), I did get the motherboard for the gPC. The motherboard, 1GB ram, decent microatx case, and 500GB hard drive set me back around 240. It’s much quieter than my previous server, and is happily running Ubuntu Server downstairs.
While we’re talking about the new server, here’s a picture of what my basement computing stuff currently looks like:



I’m currently moving all my stuff off my previous server to the new one, including my bip and bitlbee install, folding at home, and FreePBX. On my old machine, I had used Fabian’s How-To on setting up Freepbx, particularly on setting up using the Xorcom Etch repositories. Unfortunately, Gutsy has continued onward while Etch has not, so what works on Feisty doesn’t always work on Gutsy, and that was the case with the Xorcom packages. Hopefully they’ll be moved to Debian in the near future.
Instead of using the Xorcom packages, I followed this how-to, which, besides version changes and some redundant steps, was pretty spot on. In short time I was up and running, and it didn’t take long to move over my previous configuration to the new server. The new FreePBX, by the way, is much, much shinier, and has AJAXed everything (even the Gigabytes).
Why am I moving everything, you might ask? Well, since the new server will have these permanent duties, I’ll be using the old server as a game server for the New Jersey Team’s LAN Party!
That’s about it from now. Here’s a video of Dave miming a “PodCast” on using The GIMP.

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