Archive for September, 2008
WTB: Round Tuit*
I’m severely low on tuits these days, especially round ones (laugh, it’s supposed to be funny 
), but when I get one I need to:
- set up my newly-acquired D-Link router as the common gateway to the Internet, in place of the old computer currently doing this (implies moving any and all port forwards there, too)
- possibly set up a DNS server (BIND, probably) on one of the other computers (most likely bast)
- set up mum’s computer so she doesn’t have to work on the current router anymore (thus clearing it up for the next step)
- set up the current router as network-attached storage, running SAMBA and possibly NFS and probably SVNserve, too, on an Ubuntu Server Edition (plus transferring any of the data we want to keep off its current drives and onto different ones before formatting to ext3)
- (added to the above) look into the possibility of consolidating the four drives on the current router into a single logical partition (or perhaps two) using some kind of software RAID. This may or may not be a good idea, considering the age of the drives and their possibility of failure
Aside from all this, I have a bunch of other running around to do, most specifically involving putting a bunch of documentation together and finally becoming a one-man company so I can be paid more. I’ve unfortunately been slacking off in that department.
ETA: And that’s my quota of 1 post for this month, and just in time, too, October’s about to start. Boy, does time fly, or what?
(*) – WTB == “want to buy”; “round tuit” == common joke/wordplay around the statement “I’ll do it when I get around to it”.
