Hi guys,
maybe some of you were wondering that I’ve written something about Mac OS X Server yesterday. Well, the truth is, that with the 30″ Cinema HD Display, I’ve also ordered a Mac mini Snow Leopard Server. Planned as Media-Station & Server-mixture in the living room, it turned out, that this will not work as expected. But… let me start at the beginning…
Hey guys,
last Thursday, I’ve received my new display. After weeks and asking around a hundred people what they recommend, I’ve ordered my next generation display at CyberPort. After scanning the market, I ended up to choose one of the following manufactures: Apple, EIZO, NEC or LaCie. Well, LaCie was way too expensive (about 3.500€ for the 30″). Continue Reading »
Good morning!
I’ve just released episode #6 of my Klein² Podcast. The topic is the installation of an Intel X25 G2 Postville 80GB SSD into my MacBook. The Podcast is a bit longer – 24:24min exactly. It covers the complete installation process incl. upgrading the SSDs firmware to the current version (which is recommended). Also, a benchmark is included.
Good evening,
after some days of silence, I think it makes sense to explain what happend.
First of all: I’ve launched my business “dennisklein.eu” successfully on Monday 
So – great to be back to my own business.
But let me scroll back a few days. The last time, I’ve told you, that I’ve moved to a new ISP, called VirtualBots. They had a nice offer to testdrive the vServer for 30 days. I was impressed, grabbed one package and asked them if it’s possible to upgrade with a managed software. They wanted to do the management and installed Confixx (by Parallels) for me. This thing worked smooth and nice, with some rough corners. For example the security of the Apache was not as I hoped, I could not even install phpSysInfo (and who knows me KNOWS that I love phpSysInfo!). I was nearly finished moving most of my websites to the new server (which now costed 60€ instead of 19€ monthly, which is a fair price) – the main server dropped off. Nothing. Silence. OF COURSE, my old webserver decided to do the same at this morning. So – nothing worked. No mail, no website. I was able to restart my olden goldie webserver at Server4You with a remote hard-reset. And it was back. Of course – broken and need to be replaced pretty soon.
Hey guys,
last Thursday I’ve ordered an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11n) for the home office and an AirPort Express Station (802.11n, too) for the kitchen. See me unboxing them.
Hi guys,
here are the photos that I’ve taken yesterday night after unpacking the Mac Pro and adding the 4 HDDs + the 12GB of RAM into it.
I think this post speaks for itself. I must admit, that I was a bit in hurry to set it up, so I didn’t took care of “perfect” photos. The lightning was bad as we use enviroment-friendly lamps in the home office and I (yet) have no studio lights.
Hi guys,
today, I’ve received the additional parts for the Mac Pro:
3x 4GB Samsung ECC Registered DDR3-1066 Memory (what a name )
Hi guys,
no – I’m not totally nuts, but I’ve changed my mind (again). The reason to do so is based on A LOT of issues that the new iMac 27″ seems to have and it seems that not only the Core 2 CPUs machines are affected – I’ve read about a lot people that also received flickering displays with their new Core i7 27″ iMacs.
Hey guys,
maybe it was really my fault by getting the wrong CPU and if the E5400 is not supported by the Intel S3000AHLX as it’s a 45nm CPU and the board just supports 60nm CPUs… STOP!
You know what I’ve learned from this lesson? That I’m no more interested in building systems on my own. Not now, when I still have a bit free time nor in future. That means for me: Do the next step and sell my stuff as long as it’s more or less modern and wanted on eBay or other marketplaces.
I will start dropping my 2nd DSL line in June (24 months contract with Arcor… eh! Vodafone). The deliver the slower of my 2 current DSL lines, so I will stick with the faster T-Com line (but will check if I can possibly switch to a business account, not to have to spend 2MBit/s of the bandwidth for a not-used IPTV (long story – I’ve blogged earlier about ).
Anyway – I need a fix IP for the mailserver – well, no there are ways with DynDNS, but I’ll prefer a fix one 
I will also drop a lot of my hardware. I will clean up with all the PCs laying around here. No – no HDDs for sale, as I will be able to use them later for backup reasons for example, but the Quad Core workstation will be sold in parts (means: Board (Asus P5Q Deluxe) + CPU (Intel Q9650) + RAM (4x 2GB Kingston DDR2-800), seperate both GeForce 8600GTS passive cards (MOLEX and one is PCIe powered (cable)). The cases will be sold as well (big and midi Chieftec MESH / silver black). I will post the links tomorrow to those offers on eBay if someone of you is interested. Of course, the Areca controller and the ECS Board with the AMD64EE + 2GB or RAM will be sold also! . Oh – there’s a DELL PowerEdge 1680 in the basement (1U / P3 1.4GHz / 2GB ECC Regged RAM / 36GB SCA 10k HDD) which will be sold, too.
What I will NOT sell is my loved sweet IPCop. A NetVista Pentium-M 266MHz with 256MB RAM and a current 2GB CF-Card. Oh – I will replace the CFCard today with a 120GB 2.5″ HDD that I don’t need anywhere else (IDE), so that I will able to run a nice proxy with ad-filter etc. on it.
Another challenge will be to get my Cisco 7960 IP-Phone to work with my just a few weeks ago bought FritzBoxFon WLAN 7170. I can receive and place calls already, bad the painpoint is, that noone hears me when I say something. Hope I can get this fixed, as I have no ISDN lines in the office since we moved downstairs to avoid get grilled like a chicken on the roast in the summer – so: Cisco 7960, cordless T-Com phone (works ok, but is not that g33ky, or maybe use the Fritz.mac Suite to place phone calls using my Jabra USB Headset. Well – anything will work for me.
This is more a resumé and a note for myself on what to do to do those things (no this is not a type – strange grammer ):
- use less power on the systems
- make everything compatible with the MacBook and the (hopefully 17th/18th Dec delivered) iMac 27″ Core i7
- make my life easier
- let me spend a lot less time and configuring stuff that does not work as wanted in the end
- use my time to create things and sell them to my customers on February
- be ready with nearly everything in February
- everything should be prepared so that I just have to add the Mac mini server in spring like a module, pop the ethernet cable and the FW800 of the Hydra(s) to the server and voilá: Everything will work.
More a brainstorming session this time, but I love to share my thoughts with you guys and can’t await to get feedback from you
If you ask: What’s with a Debian Server – well, I will work more live on my server in the datacenter which currently runs Ubuntu Server 6.06.3 LTS. Maybe I will virtualize a Debian session on the iMac or the Mac mini server. Debian is very lightweight as VM
Ciao
Dennis
PS. Meanwhile I’ve put all my larger HDDs into 2 packages and brought them safely to the attic… here are 2 more pics.
[Update]
Using the todays offer from eBay to put in my stuff at a much lower price than regular, I’ve put all my stuff into eBay. Maybe someone of you is interested in one of the parts
Here are the links:
- MSI GeForce 8600GTS Passive
- MSI GeForce 8600GTS Passive
- Areca 1220 PCIe x8 8 Port RAID5/6 Controller
- ECS Board + AMD64EE CPU Bundle
- ASUS P5Q Deluxe + Intel Quad Core CPU Bundle
- Corsair 750W Power supply
- 8G Kingston Memory
- Chieftec MESH Series Big Tower silver/black
- Chieftec MESH Series Midi Tower silver/black
Just in case…
Ciao
Dennis
Hi guys,
good evening.
Today, I received the earlier described serverboard, the Intel S3000AHLX – and it was DOA (Dead On Arrival). I’ve tried to get it work with the new delivered E5400 CPU and with my Q9650. No success. Even my older “non ECC” (which should also work in this board) DDR2-533 memory did not worked. So – after 4h’s of trying without ANY sign on the screen, I gave up. It must be the board that was DOA. I was a bit surprised that the packaging of the board was opened when I’ve pulled it out of the delivery box. Now I know why – as it seems.
Everything was sent back – in anger, I admit. So – no server for me – no PC based anymore. I’m really annoyed of all this, but I’m looking forward for the Mac mini server in spring next year. Maybe I’m just too old to put my hands into hardware and try to get them run 
I’m just disappointed about the shop – sending stuff that was already opened and broken.
Ciao
Dennis
PS. No – I’ve currently no idea how to store my data in the moment. Maybe better get a Hydra soon?
