The Blog of InfamousEric

So since my kids were little, I would always take them to Six Flags for Halloween. We normally would go the last Friday before Halloween, as the park wouldn’t have much of a crowd during the day, leaving the rides pretty much open. Sure there would be lines on the newer rides, but some of [...]

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been having net connect problems.
The connection speed would dive to less than 1kbps and stay there, than it would jump to near normal than dive again.
A couple days ago I saw a download speed of 246 b/s…
Spoke with the ISP, they know of the issue, but haven’t been [...]

So I’ve now put together a backup/media server for the house.
The intent is to set it up to backup the client machines, configs & docs.
While at the same time serve as a media server, for movies, pictures, music, etc…
I’m using Ubuntu Server 8.04 64bit, the thing is fast and clean.
It’s a Sempron 2800, with [...]