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  1. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    Update:

    I am in the process of repairing the server..something about a capacitor..
    That is the dual xeon.

    I have one server up and running with windows 2003 - a ML370 G1, dual p3 with 1.5 gigs of ram.
    I have another server I got locally and need to clean / os install. Also a dual cpu pIII

    I decided against using the business cable, no way I am putting personal
    computers on the same connection.

    So it will wind up being residential DSL. Once the server is up
    and online, then I will worry about the DSL fees.

    Resources:

    I ordered a sata / usb 2.0 card combo
    I have two adaptec ultra 133 cards
    I have a firewire card
    I have miscellaneous hard drives. Two 80GB,
    a 40GB, a 160 GB.

    Step #1

    I need to get the servers configured first.
    I have never built a web server from the ground up.
    Not a clue. I just put server 2003 on it and that's as far as I have gone.
    The server supports:

    » Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    » Microsoft Windows 2000
    » Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
    » Red Hat Linux 8.0
    » UnitedLinux 1.0/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
    » SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 7
    » SCO Open UNIX 8
    » SCO UnixWare 7
    » SCO OpenServer 5

    I weeded out the old crap like os/2.

    So what I need is advice on configuring the machine.

    What I need:

    Any ide dvd drives
    Any SCSI drives

    The idea is not to just log on and download what I put up.
    It needs to be sorted, and then the idea is to torrent it.
    This will take a while, and it has to be done in an organized fashion from the start.

    So we need to propose a method of organizing large amounts of files.
    We are talking about multiple builds.

    Software - Art - Source - Docs - Misc

    I'd like to get 5 dvd drives in the machine, and then I can just
    give someone a drive/dvd to sort and let them work at their own pace.

    The drive and hard drive space per user would be restricted
    from other users. There would be a main drive accessable to all
    with the sorted files. This would be mirrored by a user inaccessable drive.

    This is to prevent people from tampering / deleting with each other's work
    and the main database. Unfortunately we all know about people going
    out of their way to cause harm and this would limit any damage.

    I would love to scrounge up a scsi cd-rom tower, but those just don't exist anymore..

    Ideas are more than welcome.

    I would suggest we start small. And please remember, every dvd/cd isn't a gem.
    It may just be art or textures. Not every thing you sort will be pure source
    or exciting material. So you have to be willing to sort the normal everyday
    stuff as well.
     
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    Segafreak_NL v2.0 New and improved. Site supporter 2012-15

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    Sounds good. Well, like said, I'd be happy to sort any Saturn material.
     
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  3. APE

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    You gotta get through the dirt to find those diamonds. I went through 2 semesters worth of win2k3 stuffs, however I don't think it will be of much use unless you're setting up Active Directory or anything domain related.
     
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    A friend recently threw out a CD-ROM tower, ethernet rather than SCSI. Regardless, it would've cost a fortune to ship anywhere, those things are heavy.

    In terms of varied user areas, can samba be easily set up for this sort of thing? If I recall right GP has some experience in that area, maybe he could chime in.
     
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  5. APE

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    Samba works great over networks, MS has done such a good job with it that Win95 and XP can share files between them so long as you've got permissions and such set right. Samba over the internet is something I've never attempted, don't see why it couldn't work though.

    The easiest method might just be a plain old FTP. I can give out a lot of suggestions but I'd need to hear more about the specifics of what is wanted.
     
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  6. karsten

    karsten Member of The Cult Of Kefka

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    i`m still in my russia holydays, but as soon as i get back i'll gladly help... tought i can only help with art and documentation i guess...

    by the way Kevin, is it possible to use instead of DVDs DVD images to share on machine? that would save optical drives an result in faster sending...

    karsten
     
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    If you decide Win2k3, what about something like Sharepoint for documents, images, etc. As files are looked over by hand, it would provide an easy way to collect everything into a central location that's categorized, indexed, searchable, etc. with little effort.

    For source, how about a source control server? CVS, SVN, Vault, etc.

    I can assist with any/all of that.
     
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  8. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    It doesn't have to be 2003.
     
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    2k3's main advantage is that of a domain with AD, great if you're running a network and if not you've still got an OS thats on par with XP.
     
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  10. ASSEMbler

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    The have a sale on DSL, it's $20 a month for 1m/768
    and $14 for 768/128k

    128 being utter shit.
     
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  11. Psycho

    Psycho We've gone plaid!

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    Actually, that's not quite true... I've tested this by taking a FAT32 harddrive with data, formatting it, re-formatting it NTFS and writing some files to it. Then I deleted all the partition info (thus making a 'blank' drive) and was still able to recover all the FAT32 data that I didn't actually over-write...

    If the drive wasn't actually zeroed out or written over completely, something can be recovered with the right tools...

    If the drive can be re-acquired, I'd be willing to go through and recover anything that's still there...

    Assembler: Two things:
    If you need IDE DVD drives, I can send you a few... I've replaced DVD drives with burning drives a lot, so I have several of these just laying around...

    2nd- What arcade boards did you get ahold of? Those might be of interest to people as well... ;-)
     
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    kammedo and the lost N64 Hardware Docs

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    Well Win2K was quite ok to me....even with less RAM (like 64 Megs), but I would never - NEVER suggest you to try to get it on a P1!! xD

    You say that man!
     
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    For data transfer, BitTorrent is your tool. No fucking around with CVS, Samba, etc. Just let everyone share and its fast and reliable.
    For a server OS try out Xubuntu. Don't use an old OS (Windows or Linux) on low spec hardware, it'll be unstable and insecure. Use cut-down versions of new OSes instead, like Linux with XFCE (like Xubuntu) and nLite'd versions of Windows. PM me if you want more info, especially on nLite and Windows. ;)
     
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    Sounds good to me :) I'm (still) curious how Acclaim handled this (sharing, versioning, forking) over the years....

    CF
     
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  15. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    Acclaim had the worst setup I had ever seen.

    Two nice apple blades, a shitload of old g3 and sun machines,
    all of the rest nice stuff on lease that was taken back.
     
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    assembler which kind of xeons does the server run on i got a lot of 4 old p3 xeon 900mhz 2mb 5V laying around which i never could use (needed 3.3V ones bought the wrong stuff =( would they be a help ?
     
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    It's p4 xeons. One is a dual 733mhz, and the other is dual 500mhz, they both can do up to 1ghz. But I don't know if they can use the cpus you have , they need special heat sinks
     
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    Ummmm, as far as I know (and wikipedia confirms), no 733 or 500mhz P4 Xeons were made. They were P3s then. So that would mean they use socket 603. Best check the motherboard, as S603 cpus can sometimes go in S604 sockets. There are P4 Xeons that use both 603 and 604.
     
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    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    Let me clarify.

    One P4 xeon server dual 2.8ghz
    One dual 733 pIII server
    One dual 500 pIII server
     
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    I'm not too experienced with server configs, but I know you're probably gonna wanna RAID 1 everything, because HDDs fail, and when they do it's a lot of time, money and effort to fix it. You might also want a tool to backup everything to an external drive say, every day or 2, kinda like Norton Ghost. As for an OS, Ubuntu Server (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/serveredition) can set you up with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, the basis of most webservers) within 15 minutes. It's easy enough to use and as stable as you're gonna get without configuring BSD, which is worse than pulling teeth. Windows will probably be easier, but by default IIS is as stable as a psyciatric patient.
     
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