Just put together the computer I got on Friday. It's a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, MSI RS480M2-IL m/b, 1GB dual channel DDR RAM, with a 20GB ATA HDD. All these are construct in a AOpen case. Total damage is CAN$550.

Fedora core 2 (x86) installs alright, updated all RPMs and it seem even able to detect the SATA IDE. NIC is detected without a problem. The other problem I encounter so far is the computer struck on reboot during shutdown. I will try out the sound card later, as well as the firewire and USB2.

I'm going to wait for FC4 for AMD64 come out in few weeks, then I'm going to move all old server function over here one by one.

Yeah!

In the beginning, there was World Wide Web. It grows out of the academic community into the commercial world. People savvy for more information on-line.

Web surfers, who access the www via a web browser, fetch HTML pages from a server on the internet via HTTP. This content delivering mechanism is a form of pull technology. One short-coming of this is when a surfer pulls a webpage, it is unknown whether the content has changed. So he (or she) has to continue to pull to realize if new content has emerged. To help automate this, a Meta tag was invented to tell the web browser how often it should reload a page.

So, I've been thinking about upgrading my server at home. I currently favor a system with AMD Athlon 64 3000+, MSI RS480M2-IL mobo, 512 dual channel DDR RAM.

I am thinking to use my existing FC2 setup on it, but likely going to end up migrate all services to it slowly to minimize impact..... I have people hitting my server for Nucleus stuff like plugins. It will be suck to have my server down for days.

Speaking of services, here's a list of services running on it currently:
- NTP
- IMAP/POP3/webmail/sendmail
- FTP (usually disabled)
- NFS
- DNS for internal domain edhome.ca
- ddclient to DynDNS
- DHCP
- MySQL, w/ phpMyadmin
- Apache
- user data storage

I also have all my applications running on it:
- Blog (Admun + Admun NUDN)
- Feed on Feeds RSS Aggregator
- wiki
- Gallery web album
- BT using Torrentflux
- MlDonkey
- TV capturing

I got to think about how to do it. I want to use FC4 (coming June) with this new server, but I'm sure there will need a lot of works to get it going.

I'm planning to add these functions in the future:
- upgrade to a better TV capture card
- real-time tv streaming, might need to get a new capture card with 2 tuners
- PBX with asterisk, VoIP using SIP, voicemail access over the net, maybe ever VoIP out-going local call
- setup Samba