My Server[ything] Is working

Running linux, and 100% windows free

I posted before about getting ubuntu working, But now I’ve got a new hard drive for it, and alls going well. It serves files to all computers on the network, a hell of a lot quicker than my PC connected over wireless, runs MySQL with no problems, and just works excellently!

Although for something just to server up files I think it’s a bit over-specced, although this is the only hardware I have not in use:

• AMD Athlon 64 3500+
• 1.25 Gb of Ram
• GigaByte Motherboard (not sure which, but it’s pretty good)
• nVidia GeForce 256mb 6-something PCI-e graphics card (being wasted in this computer, monitor is off all the time, and when I do use it it’s through VNC)
• 1x 8 GB hard drive, for OS and software
• 250Gb SATAII Drive for files

Initially I had a bit of trouble getting it to mount, but then I found the “Enable” button in System>Administration>Disks. The I just needed to configure apache to serve files fomr the drive, and setup samba to do the same. All was working well in under an hour. And it’s had no random hiccups so far.

Admittedly this probably isn’t the most energy-efficient device in the world, but it’s convenient and not on 24/7.

In fact, the only annoyance so far was my dad waking me up this morning at about 6:30am (my eyes were too blurry to see the time) to ask me how to switch it off, at least he didn’t think i’d destroyed the world because it wasn’t windows. He managed to turn it off by using the unstructions “Click the thing that looks like a door, then shut down”. And I was then able to go back to sleep. Yay