At last I have ordered the final parts for my fileserver 
The parts should all be hear before the end of the week and the case hopefully will be or early next week. I will do some posts on the build and configuring of the server. The motherboard I have gone with is a Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Intel Atom D525 / NM10 Motherboard. 1.8GHz dual core atom (1mb cache) with 2GB of DDr3 ram.
Fileserver Update!
December 7th, 2010Shared Windows XP Printer With Vista/Win7
October 29th, 2010For some time know I have had a simple shared printer on a Windows XP machine. I added it my Windows Vista Laptop and all was good. The problem started when I went to add the printer to my Windows Vista desktop that runs a 64Bit version of windows. Read the rest of this entry »
Fileserver Update
October 20th, 2010I have now got the drives for my raid 5 array! Ebuyer had an offer on Samsung F3 (1TB) for £40!!!!!! so i got 3 for a total of 2TB useable space before formating. I will be using ext3 with LVM. I also grabbed some 24inch latching sata cables.
Plans for new fileserver!
October 4th, 2010I have been wanting to build a low powered fileserver with a ton of storage for some time. Hopefully soon I will build the new machine with the following parts:
- Gigabyte GA-D510UD £68.26 (1.6 dual core atom)
- 2gb of DDR 2 ram. £29
- 3x 1TB Sata II drives. £132
- 4u case. £48
- 8gb CF card for OS. £15
Plus some stuff I already have.
- IDE to CF card reader.
- PSU.
- Sata cables.
I will post more details when I order the parts I will be using CentOS 5.5 and use software raid to create a Raid 5!
Linux Golden Eye Source Beta 4 Server
September 26th, 2010I have been trying to get a Linux GES Beta 4 server to work but have been getting errors as it requires a later version of GLIBCXX…… I am running CentOS 5.5 so the packages are not always that up to date, as the CentOS project focuses on stability and compatibility with Red Hat the upstream vendor. Fedora the other fork of Red Hat is a distribution that is focused on having the latest packages. So this being said we can use a Fedora rpm to update my CentOS server and hopefully not break the server…..
32Bit
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/10502724/com/libstdc++-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm.html
Download the rpm using the above link to find mirror, use wget to download and use the rpm –U libs*.rpm to install the package.
Please use this guide at your own risk! Special thanks to zennik from the GES formus.
http://forums.goldeneyesource.net/index.php/topic,4954.0.html
Setting up OpenVPN (client)
September 18th, 2010I’ve been meaning to create a guide to installing and setting up the OpenVPN client as I have had to walk people through the process over Teamspeak so many times. So I have finally got round to making version one of the tutorial. I am planning to create another tutorial explaining how to get Age of the Empires III working with the VPN. Please let me know if you find any mistakes.
New rack KVM
September 14th, 2010It’s been too long since I have last posted on this blog! So as I am busy at the moment I thought I would just post up some pictures of my network and some of my new toys. The new 1U keyboard, mouse and video tray that I have used to replace the LCD and standard keyboard and mouse is pretty cool but the keyboard was dead when I got it 
but after taking it to bits I found the bad connection and all is now well I will post some pictures of that below.
New rack KVM! (rack has the front door and one side removed)
Dell XPS 420 1 3 4 error
July 1st, 2010
I thought I better post some stuff so I thought I would blog about a PC I recently repaired and seems to be a common problem with the Dell XPS in question. Sometime last week I got a call for a friend of mine saying his PC was not starting and the fan would just run full blast. Read the rest of this entry »
Blog moved / Server migration!
June 15th, 2010I have decided to try out the new VPS provided DamnVPS or as they have changed the name it is now called ThrustVPS. If you are seeing this post your DNS has changed over to the new server. 
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Teamspeak 3 server update
June 8th, 2010I thought I would do a little post on updating a Linux (CentOS 5) Teamspeak 3 server as I haven’t posted much on here. As Teamspeak 3 is still in the beta stages even through it’s very stable it gets patched a lot. This being said most server patches do not affect clients from connecting to the server, it will simply warn you some features may not function correctly. When I went to connect to my server I was confronted with the following error.