(D) Computer Reliability
My NSLU2 storage box, upgraded some time ago to 'proper' Linux rather than the Linksys version:
[dave@aivas ~]$ uptime
11:46:57 up 369 days, 13:25, load average: 1.05, 1.01, 1.00
So it's sat there happily for over a year now, without doing anything silly, and no significant power cuts (at least not beyond the capacity of the UPS to handle). It handles DHCP for my network, and is one of the local DNS and NTP machines. It's also running an IMAP server, although I don't actually use it, same with an ftp server. I must have been playing one day, because I don't remember configuring that. I just need to keep an eye on it because the 100GB disk only has 27GB left, although that's not as bad as the other server, which is down to its last 3.6GB.
[dave@aivas ~]$ uptime
11:46:57 up 369 days, 13:25, load average: 1.05, 1.01, 1.00
So it's sat there happily for over a year now, without doing anything silly, and no significant power cuts (at least not beyond the capacity of the UPS to handle). It handles DHCP for my network, and is one of the local DNS and NTP machines. It's also running an IMAP server, although I don't actually use it, same with an ftp server. I must have been playing one day, because I don't remember configuring that. I just need to keep an eye on it because the 100GB disk only has 27GB left, although that's not as bad as the other server, which is down to its last 3.6GB.