Land of the Lemmings, v2

Well, I’ve rolled another box from RedHat to Gentoo: a squid proxy box that handles kiosk machines in Housing.
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I’m trying to migrate an NT4 SQL 6.5 server to Windows 2000 and SQL 2000 using the SQL Server Upgrade wizard. We’ve got lots of data on the old server and some tables structures that I’d really rather not have to recreate by hand. Below is the horror story that was the attempted upgrade.
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Well, getting hyperthreading going on a stock kernel seems to be a bit tricky, but here are the options I used to get it going.
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Well, I’m having a tough time finding gifts for relatives and friends. Most will be getting cash or gift certificates, most likely cash.
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No, not tar from a cigarette! tar as in the *nix Tape ARchive.

I needed to back up my test gentoo box at home so I could install RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS. Since I needed to repartition, the best way was to haul a tar file off to another computer, using ssh and a tar pipe, like so:

tar cf - * | ssh hostname "cat > /my/tar/directory/tarfile.tar"

About 20 minutes later, and I’ve got a 1.4 Gb tarball on my other linux box. Not quite sure how I’m going to get it BACK to the test box, but I’m sure I’ll find something.

Or even better:
tar cvf - /mnt/gentoo/* |ssh root@target 'cd /; tar -xpf -'

Sniff sniff:

[xxxx@xxx kernel]# uptime
12:01am up 258 days, 12:48, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.44, 0.26


So much for a 1+ year target.

So, my dad needed a faster computer to be able to do his part time winter job at home again this year (the software requires Windows XP and his 3 year old PIII 666 was getting tired).

So, I headed over to Dell Factory Outlet and for just over $1300 he gets a P4-2.6Ghz, 512MB RAM, CDRW, a DAMN NICE NVIDIA video card and a 17″ flat panel.

Nicer than what I’ve got on my desk at work. Well, except for the monitor.

This should last him longer than the last one.