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Woop.

Yes, well I got a new soundcard and a set of surround speakers (2 rears, 2 front, 1 center and Sub). I’m fairly certain they’re up and running in perfect order. When playing 2 channel audio through ALSA though the center and sub are non existent. Luckily for me the speakers I got can switch between 5.1 and Stereo, I’ve yet to test them with a known 5.1 source though. We shall see…

My new speakers at Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3071422592&category=1499&rd=1

And the two 10GB hard drives used in the mail server:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2777931894&category=168&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2777931867&category=168&rd=1

And finally, the new printer:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16188&item=3452547947

Woop!

Stuart

Well, we had kinda dodged together the network for the past 2 weeks, however, tonight Stephen and I decided to fix it once and for all. The end result is a fairly admirable one for a flat of 3 uni students!
We’ve got the following in the server cupboard:

- 200GB Archive server
- 10GB RAID-1 configed mail server
- Custom configured Redhat router (internal 56K at the moment, Cable is installed on the 28th)
- KVM Switch for all the machines
- 8 port 100MB Switch (linked to an additional 8 port switch in the computer room)

I’ll get some pics of that in the next day or two and post them up. Ripping up carpet proved to be fun! We’re lucky because our flat appears to have been tiled initially which meant pulling the carpet off the nail strips, inserting our wiring and putting it back down was fairly easy and meant zero damage to the flat itself! The only thing it did affect though is both Stephen and my general health. We’ve both got red scratches all up our arms courtesy of the course carpet and us shoving wires across the hallway gaps. It was fun nonetheless!

Now all we’ve got to do is:

- Hookup the 802.11a base and cards which I have lying around (got the base unit & 6 cards for AUD$50!)
- Hookup the 802.11b/g to Spaceghost and Co’s place (can you say, 10 house wireless LAN.. OH YER!)
- Buy the MicroITX machine to stick in the living room. That’ll complement the 68cm TV Stephen bought (it’s got a tonne of connectors on it too! Notably Svideo which is damn funky for hooking up PCs :)).

Ahhh…. Twas very fun indeed.

Stuart

Added some linkback stuff. If you want to swap links, drop me an email (or just comment this post :)).

Made a few mods to config. Post a comment if you see a bug!
TODO

- Integrate File downloading/linking/tracking software into MT
[ I think this is possible although it might require some Perl coding skills to get it to a state I like, we’ll see! :-} ]

Hey all,

Ok, the photo gallery is up. Have posted some glamour photo’s and pictures of our new flat (to authorized people only).

Decided to stick with MT’s default output format since it’s easiest and I’m no design Guru. Have added the link back to the Forum but it’s template needs some tweaking still.

It’s 1am here and that’s fairly late for me (considering I’ve been sleeping @ around 10-11pm in the past few weeks anyways).

Enjoy,

Stuart