D'oh! Running late ...

The last time I upgraded the firmware in the wireless router, it apparently went awol. I screwed around with it today, going so far as to switch out the cable that connected the router to the main router, and switching the internet connection, all to no avail. I finally upgraded the firmware, first to the wrong version, which crashed, and then to the right version. Suddenly, it works.

I tossed in the towel and put water cooling in this box. Bolted a radiator onto one of the case fans, which I'd reversed, and clamped a heat exchanger/water pump on the CPU in place of the Intel fan that ustta be there. The CPU's running about 5 degrees Celsius below the motherboard and ten degrees below what it's been running. Plus, I've cranked down the hard drive fans to slow. Of course, I'm not doing anything that requires much CPU power right now either.

Asus unlimited backup is $40 a year. http://news.eeestorage.com/20090201/en_US/

(I don't own a netbook, but I do own several Asus motherboards.) Like Mozy, you have to specify which folders/files to backup.

The new motherboard comes with a little utility that boots, incremements, crashes; boots, increments, crashes; boots increments crashes; and then declares a successful overclocking rate, plus there's a wired remote thingie plugged into the MB which allows me to do all sorts o' things, why there's even a Turbo Key button and a Bus Speed rocker switch -- I'd like to see 'em get a bus down my street fast these days! But, sigh, still no overthrusters.

And rebuilding!

But I'm moving everything off the baby RAID 5 drive to a backup drive, and then I'm going to yank the two partitions, repartition it as one large partition, and then format it. I've got backups. I was looking at partition software last night, but I've had some unintended fun with Norton's software (which says in really fine print that it doesn't work with RAID drives -- they ain't kidding, by the way). I noticed last night that the drives I based it on, Maxtor 120 GB drives appear to have gone to the obsolete junkyard in the sky. They wuz the sweetspot in that sweet by and by when I first built the RAID. Nowadays, motherboards with RAID controllers are cheaper than most of the RAID controllers out there. Go figure. And Serial ATA (SATA) has pretty much wiped the field. Parallel ATA (PATA or IDE) drives are still around for legacy hardware. But like all hardware, what's old is old, and this electronic hardware turns not to antiques, but to junk for all the junkyards of Asia.

There's only 922 GB free on my RAID drive...

I just replaced the old 30 GB PATA (probably 66) with a 500 GB PATA 100, using the Seagate software to clone the drive from 29 GB to 465. Slick, smooth, and fast. 1.825 TB on this computer. I just hope I don't hafta back it up, or I'm sunk.

268790 files. Done.

First laptop to the RAID drive. The spiffy trial backup software (Memeo) keeps claiming it ain't there. Odd that.

Almost there.