{"id":91,"date":"2011-11-06T21:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2011-11-06T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:22:52","slug":"new-webserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/06\/new-webserver\/","title":{"rendered":"New Webserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92\" title=\"New PC\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0109.jpg\" alt=\"From Freecycle\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0109.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0109-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Just a quick post here before my latest projects all escape me. \u00a0I snagged a used PC off Freecycle a couple of weeks back and swapped out my web server &#8211; reformatting and installing the latest FreeBSD at the same time, then reinstalling all the ports from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>In fact my needs have simplified considerably since standing up the old server, as I&#8217;m now using a TomatoUSB-flashed WRT54GS as my router \/ gateway instead of the webserver box &#8211; meaning I no longer needed dhcpd, natd, an elaborate pf.conf, dyndns client, a second NIC, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting specs: 2.0ghz Celeron (old machine 1.3ghz Pentium4), 384MB SDRAM (old: 128mb RDRAM). \u00a0Gigabit ethernet card. \u00a0Two SATA ports. \u00a0On-board GFX using 16mb shared ram (could put in a PCI card to get that back, if I really need it) \u00a0Most everything is up and running as before &#8211; a few side projects have dependencies I haven&#8217;t reinstalled yet. \u00a0In fact the biggest challenge was updating the BIOS, because all my floppy disks are dying&#8230; I managed to do it using two half-damaged disks, one for the flasher and one for the ROM, and even then command.com didn&#8217;t want to boot so I needed to use the flasher as the interpreter : )<\/p>\n<p>The old machine is going to be fitted into the gutted Galaxian cabinet and run dedicated MAME &#8211; win98se stripped, off a CF card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post here before my latest projects all escape me. \u00a0I snagged a used PC off Freecycle a couple of weeks back and swapped out my web server &#8211; reformatting and installing the latest FreeBSD at the same time, then reinstalling all the ports from scratch. In fact my needs have simplified considerably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}