Comments on: Return To Geekness… http://blog.dlogan.net/2005/08/11/return-to-geekness/ A bit about Doug Logan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: dlogan http://blog.dlogan.net/2005/08/11/return-to-geekness/comment-page-1/#comment-95 dlogan Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:55:31 +0000 http://www.dlogan.net/blog/?p=6#comment-95 Ah, LInux was the easy part. I can do software... not sure if should be touching any more hardware...but software I can do. Lets just say that when I was done with this project and I hit the power button... nothing happened ;-(. Since I never tested the motherboard before I began soddering, I can't say conclusively that I killed it. However its extremely likely that I did. That motherboard was in the trash about a month ago after I verified it was dead. Three months ago I was lucky enough to pick up a P4 board for free (long story). That board is now in the case with all the extras that was going to be in the other system. I've rebuilt the system several times over the last couple months but I now have a stripped-down version of Debian running on it. Instead of rebuilding boxes every time I want to fiddle with something new, I have VmWare server running on this box. Its great. When I want to fiddle with webdesign, I boot up my Virtual Web Server. When I want to fiddle with a mail server, I boot up my VmWare mail server. I even have a Windows 2003 Active Directory server in there (running a trial version). I've gotten familiar enough with the Linux kernel now that I can navigate pretty well. I'm still nowhere near a Linux Guru, but I know where to start with pretty much anything I want to tackle right now.... LOL like sending e-mail from a command prompt, complete with message body ;-) Ah, LInux was the easy part. I can do software… not sure if should be touching any more hardware…but software I can do. Lets just say that when I was done with this project and I hit the power button… nothing happened ;-(. Since I never tested the motherboard before I began soddering, I can’t say conclusively that I killed it. However its extremely likely that I did. That motherboard was in the trash about a month ago after I verified it was dead.

Three months ago I was lucky enough to pick up a P4 board for free (long story). That board is now in the case with all the extras that was going to be in the other system. I’ve rebuilt the system several times over the last couple months but I now have a stripped-down version of Debian running on it. Instead of rebuilding boxes every time I want to fiddle with something new, I have VmWare server running on this box. Its great. When I want to fiddle with webdesign, I boot up my Virtual Web Server. When I want to fiddle with a mail server, I boot up my VmWare mail server. I even have a Windows 2003 Active Directory server in there (running a trial version).

I’ve gotten familiar enough with the Linux kernel now that I can navigate pretty well. I’m still nowhere near a Linux Guru, but I know where to start with pretty much anything I want to tackle right now…. LOL like sending e-mail from a command prompt, complete with message body ;-)

]]> By: MInTheGap http://blog.dlogan.net/2005/08/11/return-to-geekness/comment-page-1/#comment-93 MInTheGap Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:05:41 +0000 http://www.dlogan.net/blog/?p=6#comment-93 Ok, so I can understand Linux with a good shell, but raw linux-- you'd probably laugh at my first experiences with e-mail and unix! It was the only e-mail at college my freshman year, and I didn't know how to leave unix and save. Let's just say my dad got a lot of titles with no text. Hopefully you'll do better than I. Ok, so I can understand Linux with a good shell, but raw linux– you’d probably laugh at my first experiences with e-mail and unix! It was the only e-mail at college my freshman year, and I didn’t know how to leave unix and save. Let’s just say my dad got a lot of titles with no text. Hopefully you’ll do better than I.

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