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hardware
Reinstall the server – the project’s start
After I have been blogging about my server quite a bit, it is now finally the time to start all over. After my new client is up and running, I had some spare parts, and as already mentioned, I decided to put all of them together into a brand-new server box. Here’s the new hardware [...]
Firefox and the Scroll Mouse
I fixed an annoying behaviour in Firefox: When I scrolled fast with the scroll wheel on my mouse, Firefox would go back and forth (depending on the scroll direction) in my browser history. I found some resource that described the solution: I had to change the ZAxisMapping in xorg.conf. I did as suggested – the [...]
Get the sensors running
Today, I made an attempt to get my sensors up and running. There is a good post in the forums relating to the P5B-E. Step by step, here’s what I did: The sources for the patches did not work on my system; the original author of the post above provided his, and I have stored [...]
First Start
OK – here we go; I booted the client with Knoppix. It came up, that’s the good news… dmesg shows a lot of ACPI / APIC stuff – seems to work; also, the SATA drives are correctly initialised. USB is initialised as EHCI; firewire is initialised as ohci1394. The card readers are also initialised as [...]
The client is ordered!
It’s done – I ordered the new system to be used as a client. I know, I know, I have been blogging about rebuilding my server, but the truth is, I can’t afford doing so at the moment due to the need of having printer, scanner and data in one place. I decided to go [...]
