Posted: September 13, 2009 at 2:05 pm | Tags: Apple, college, country, Girls, History, HP, Job, Markets, oakland university, opencourseware, picture, Pictures, profiles, public, school, st. john, university, wayne state, work
I was recently discussing the issue of the Oakland University strike with someone. While the pay and benefits are obviously big factors in collective bargaining agreements, something else came up. One of his talking points for supporting the strike, well, stuck me. He was the notion of intellectual property in the classrooms and who it actually belongs to: do the lessons belong to the professors or the University.
Well, he wasn’t the least bit pleased about the idea of putting lessons online for people to see. He didn’t think it fair that “some kid in Oklahoma” could view the lessons and “learn for free”. Realistically, if schools like Yale, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, etc. all do this and see no threat, than Oakland University has absolutely no argument and no reason to be threatened. Lets take a look at why.
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Posted: August 28, 2008 at 2:02 am | Tags: Asus, Compaq, FreeBSD, Hard Drives, HP, Intel, Server
So after much ado from my last BSD post, I finally have my server up and running functionally, although it turned out to be a lot more work than envisioned. Somehow in the move, my board decided it wouldn’t POST any more (it powers but doesn’t post, hopefully a new BIOS chip can fix that and I can have this sucker go do something productive. So behold, the new motherboard pulled from a Compaq. This sucker is as ASUS board (old one was a chaintech) that runs LGA 775 (so all my machines are officially running Intel chips. Sorry AMD) and has a 3.3ghz celeron in it, which is already spinning circles around my aging 1.8ghz Sempron (socket 754 none the less).
HP lists it as a ASUS P5RC-LE, but IDK about that as the one on the site has 4 SATA ports and mine only has 2. Hmm. Well no matter, I can always throw more SATA cards in there. Better than the 0 the old board had. And the built in ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics are nice, yay for no more extra video cards in a server.
It’s also stacked with 5 HDs now, a 160g for random data, a 300g for music, a 250g for documents, and a 320g for pictures. System disk is a 40g WD that is more than enough for this, drive is 11$ full, if that. So I should be set on space for a bit.
In true style, I like to have things looking good too. So here’s some pics from under the hood, check all of them out in the photos section.
Standard picture:
And now, we turn on the UV lights!
All my lovely hard drives
Some of my fans
Cords and Such
And case closed
There are 2 UV lights mounted inside that run along the bottom of the case and up the back panel. Combined with the fans and the UV-encoded molex power cords it looks pretty awesome and runs great (now that I made a custom kernel config and re-compiled the sucker it’s awesometastical). And a gig of RAM is more than enough to keep it going soundly, so I think I’m done messing with it for now. Viva!
