2009 January

Easy Classes And An Evil RAID

I love my simple gym class for me to just to get my credit. It is a bowling/badminton class for my second credit.

In other news my RAID array with the three 120Gib drive in RAID 1 begain to beleave that it was using only two of the drives in RAID 1. This means I lost all the data on it, which was both mine and Krasses torrent server. This sucks bad because that was my only backup (hence the RAID set.

To try to get my mind off of this disaster, I sent to Apps with the friends and such. Ill give you updates on the file rebuild.

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School Fun

Here is my Class Calendar for this semester. So far today is going well and none of my professors complained about me using my laptop. Always a plus for me. If they didn’t, how would I ever make blog posts?

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New Things or Something

I finally set something new up for my computer network. Recently, I thought about the idea of trying out VMWare Server 2 since it is free and all and it’s easy to run. How it works is that you have to have a machine with either Windows or Linux in either X86 or X86_64. All you do is run the installer and after you configure it, you log into the web interface to control everything vmware wise. It works amazing and it is easy to figure out. If you want to try it, sign up and download from here “VMWare Server”.

So for my server, I built a system from my old AMD 64 machine and installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 x64 on it. The hardware I used for this project was:

  • Board: BioStar T-Force SLI
  • CPU: AMD Athlon 64 +3500
  • Memory: 2 Gig DDR400
  • Hard Drives:
    1. Seagate 20Gib IDE – OS
    2. Seagate 120Gib SATA – RAID Drive 1
    3. Seagate 120Gib SATA – RAID Drive 2
    4. Hitachi 250Gib SATA – Extra Storage (Not used yet)
    5. Hitachi 500Gib SATA – Soon to be RAID array with another 500Gib
  • Case: Antec Sonata 1st Rev with 380w PSU
  • Network:
    1. No name brand PCI Realtek 8169 Gigabit card
    2. Zonet Realtek 8169 Gigabit card (File server)
  • Video: EVGA MX4000 PCI card

I have the two RAID drives in RAID 1 using MDADM and it works perfect. The 250Gib drive is empty but it is there just in case I need more storage. Also, I am in the process of setting up another RAID 1 array that will hold my servers files on it using two 500Gib drives from my new Drobo box (I’ll explain in a bit). What that means is that I am going to be moving my main ITX server into a virtual machine to run on my VMware server but using it exactly as it is setup right now so I won’t have to start all over again setting it up. On the plus side I get to use my ITX server as a small machine for my living room. Mostly so there is a computer for my mom to use to work on school work in the living room instead of her desk which is quite small. Another plus is the fact I will be gaining more space on the server since it will have the new RAID array.

Next up I have a new file storage device called a Drobo. They call it a storage robot that essentially is a non-RAID RAID array. They have their own system called BeyondRAID which is RAID like but not true RAID. How it works is place any size drives you have in it. From them it will completely build a new drive from all the drives. No need to match size and brand, it just builds it into an array. When you run out of space on it, you just pop a drive out and install a new one. It will automaticly set-up the drive and rebuild the array. So far I love it, even though it is quite on the expensive side hovering around $450. As of yesterday (1/25/09) it now has 2x 1.5tb and 2x 500gib drives totalling 2.3tb and it is fully backed up.

Now car news. I am still modifying my car. Now it now has a BORA and euro 1.8T emblems, German plate with replica registration sticker, and it will soon have black euro VW emblems. Also I ordered and received the matching German “HN F1744″ plate for when I finally have the money to get a genuine VW BORA trunk lid with the wide plate opening. For now it is going to be chillin on my desk waiting for the day to be mounted.

Well that’s it for now. Finally I get to post this post. Hope your happy and if you have any questions on how to do any of this or about something else, just sign up and post a comment.

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PHP and JavaScript Fo’ Shizzle

Something new for me to work on. Yesterday I went to Borders and bought a few books. Well I am hoping that you can figure it out using the title of this post.

  • JavaScript in 24 Hours – ISBN: 0-672-32879-8
  • PHP in 24 Hours – ISBN: 0-672-32619-1
  • Urban Dictionary – ISBN: 0-7407-5143-3
  • Mo’ Urban Dictionary – ISBN: 0-7407-6875-1

So, to start the story about how I ended up with the books, last night me, Biggs, Forty, Nicole and her sister Kristin all went to The Witches Brew. That is an awesome NY coffee house in West Hempstead that I would recommend to anyone. Well on my way there I happened to read a few lines on UrbanDictionary only to laugh my ass off with some of the definitions so I see on the website that they have a book for it. So while I was at Borders, I found them and two other books for web page scripting and well, bought them. Nothing unusual for me. My advice is to definitely go out and pick them up. I brought them into the Witches Brew last night and well, lets just say I did not get the chance to deflower them.

Also just to let you know, I have been working on a post for the last few days so its not like I am not trying to post anything. Its just taking me quite a bit of time to actually post since how busy I have been. Till then, which should be soon, check out that book. You will LMFO fo’ Shizzle

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My Strange Co-Worker

Some names have been changed

Somehow this started months back but its the never ending joke. It all started with my co-worker, lets say Steve, out of nowhere made up this whole elaborate story how I am a child rapist. He says that I raped a boy named Harry Balsanya and a lot more stuff but I don’t want to get that far into it. This got onto my Blog because he ended up asking me if I was. Well here it is. This has been about four months and everyday I get this.

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The Omelette

Saturday night I went out with some of my small group of friends to a bowling ally to play pool. I still don’t understand why we would go there to play pool. I would rather be bowling. While we where there, some random drunk guy was at our table for most of the evening hovering and adding his own two sense. It really bothered most of us. I really don’t know how long we where there that night. We finally left around 1:30ish AM. Of course all of my friends where hungry and had to go get something to eat. I mean it’s not like I was not. I did not eat since like 12ish PM and needed food to keep moving.

So here comes the interesting part.

They all piled into 40gigs Jetta and I got into my own by myself and headed off to find some place that was open to serve food. That turned out to be a diner. I don’t remember the name of it off hand but it was off of rt25. 40′s girlfriend, Nicole, and her sister, Kristin, where both there. They ended up ordering the strangest breakfast I have ever seen. This was a completely custom made omelette with a whole lot of what ever it is called. Fillers or something?

The Omelette

Anyway, here is the list as much as I can remember.

  • Mushrooms
  • Bacon
  • Spinach

And that is all I can think of right now. Ill change it when I ask them what they did.

Sorry I have not been posting, well, posts on here. Just a lot has been going on around my house and my school and such. Well one of these days I will post more often.

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Concrete Doctor

So a few days ago, I went to my doctors to have my acid reflux check-up (it sucks to have that) and when I walked into the building, there was a random concrete block sitting right by the door. Here is the picture I took with my blackberry.

block

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X-Mas Story

Finally I get to post my my christmas loot. I got quite a few things but not much as I asked.

  1. HAVA Platnium HD Box
  2. BORA emblem
  3. This BlackBerry
  4. Some T-Shirts and Clothing
  5. Some Gift Cards for random places
  6. Hitatchi 500GB drive

That is all I can think of for now. Now I have to wait for my other new emblems for my Jetta/Bora and post pictures of it.

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