Silas Rescue MissionAuthor: jawapro
Date: Fri 29/02/2008 12:15 PM
I had today off - so I made plans for a quick dash to Burnie to rescue Silas.
Silas is a computer.
Silas is actually a dead computer.
You see - back when I was at TAFE, Trojen and I did a project for Seabrook Launceston (our old school). It was actually a project for TAFE, but Seabrook was our 'client'. We developed a student records system (which never got used) and a file server (running FreeBSD).
The actual hardware was donated by my parents. The server was a dual P3 with 3 9G SCSI drives. It was an old server Dad bought from ebay.
And it was named Silas.
But after about a month, the motherboard fried - and because the drives were SCSI and Unix, the computer shop couldnt get the data off it - so Seabrook Launceston decided they didnt like the idea of a file server after all.
So Brett from Seabrook Somerset (that's in Burnie) took the server back to Burnie to get it going again. That was fine - but we said it went on the condition that when it wasnt needed anymore, it would come back to me.
Well that was a few years ago.
A while back I contacted Brett and asked what had happened to Silas - and he said it was just sitting in the corner doing nothing.
So I made plans to go and rescue Silas.
So a quick blast up to Burnie (which wasnt so quick because of all the roadworks and the fact that I took a meander up the Meander River before I left, just for a look - not to mention the fact that I didnt really know where Seabrook was, and was relying on hazy memories from a few years ago) and back again, and I had retrieved him.
So now he's sitting in my room doing nothing (you get that with a blown motherboard and no PSU). But stay tuned - as stage 3 of my grand computer plans (I havent finished stage 1 yet!) I plan to turn him into KARLENDORF - a domain controller for my home network.
But thats after I finish the other stages:
Stage 1: Phaeton
Stage 2: Mara MKIII
Stage 3: Karlendorf
Stage 4: Troglodite
Oddly - stage 4 is the one that's been completed - so that's screwed my numbering up.
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