Linux woes

[Angrboda]

I'll have to re-evaluate my options. For a time, before the 3ware controller, the file server was running FBSD with samba. It's been running win2k server for 6 years, but the motherboard is USB 2.0, and I'd like to add a card or two of USB 3.0, but the drivers aren't working in win2k server. I installed a test install of 2k3, thinking I might upgrade, but the driver support and such for 2k3 seems mixed. I've yet to take a look at Home server. My main concern is being able to remotely admin the box. (I may just put a copy of WinXP on there, if I don't find a suitable server product.)

It will be another week or two before I get all the data migrated anyway. (I'm replacing a mixed set of 7 400/500 GB drives with a set of 8 500 gb drives in the main array. I have three 2 TB drives for an additional RAID 5 array, but I'm thinking I should add another drive to that array (on a 4 port controller). I've got several external 2 TB drives I could sacrifice for the greater good. Then I've got a pair of 3 TB externals, one of which I'll likely set up as an internal/external pair somewhere down the road. Somewhere in the mix, I hope to put my new workstation together... [I'm getting more active in book clubs after 4 months of depression, so progress on computer junk is sporadic])


On the tablet front, I'm zeroing in on an Asus Transformer Infinity in either 16 or 32 GB. It's got a high res display, microSD card slot, and the option of adding a keyboard later. (I've got a little bluetooth keyboard for whatever tablet, as the add on keyboard is pricey.) I'm still half considering the Nexus 10, or, possibly an iPad. The iPad seems unlikely though; the price is higher, and I prefer the android app market to the Apple crap.


And.... I'm looking at upgrading my mp3 player. I've got a set of bluetooth headphones and a bluetooth dongle, but they disconnect regularly; not sure which is at fault. I've got an ipod nano 16 GB that I'm "borrowing" from Target. (It was $149 with a free $15 gift card, so roughly $145 total. I notice the Touch is only $188 online. I've got a bid in on a used Cowon S9 on ebay, and this morning Newegg sent me a coupon for 15% off select ipod products, good through the 21st. [the ebay auction ends in 5 days]. Complexity just seems to follow me around.....) I just checked, with my coupon I can get the nano for $118 from Newegg. Last I checked on the Cowon, I was close to being outbid anyway. I could ask the seller to cancel my bid. Oop, no need.


And I won my auction for one of those pink pogoplug devices. So I've got two of those, and one of the lesser pogoplug mobiles. (I want to root one of the big ones for a web server. This way, even if I brick one of them, no biggie.)


Well that's fucking stupid. I can get the ipod touch in white for $170, but if I try to order the black one, I can't use my coupon because there's a free "combo offer" attached to it. (A portable speaker egg.) I prefer the nano form factor, but I don't know what all I'd get with the touch, but I do know I'd want it in black. *sigh*