Moving on

Unfortunately, I don't think I have enough time to do the web site for Robert. Instead, I will work on MultiSpec for my science project. My project is looking for pine tree population in two or three different years and comparing those statistics to ozone in the atmosphere, and maybe a few different measurements.

Robert's site

Alright, I've looked over the files in Robert's soon to be web site. Wow! That's a lot of stuff! I think I will throw his rock identification online if that's ok, just to see how well it works. There is one link that is not working, but I will fix that soon. Any suggestions?

Update

Here's what I've done in the past few days...
Last week I talked about ports with you and tried to figure out how stuff works. I then went on to research ports and many other things. Yesterday, I learned a little about telnet, and was able to access telnet servers from the terminal in my computer. Pretty interesting stuff!

Oops!

Oops! I read that wikipedia article, and figured out my problem. Here is my server

ftp://userver.serveftp.com/

It works!

Speeds

I am testing my server out, and for some reason when I upload a file, the speed maxes out at exactly 1 meg a second. I will try downloading it for more results. It could be the network, or my network card, or maybe the server, but I set that to max out at 99999 KBPS. Weird.

Also, no hope for giving it a domain name. Don't know why, but nothing works with FTP servers.

More stuff

I figured I would start blogging more on what I've been doing. Not much (it's been vacation!)

But, I am still looking for a way to give my FTP server a domain name other than 65.175.195.33. It's not going so well. I tried turning it into a HTTP server, but that didn't work. I found out what port 990 did, though. It is FTPS, a more secure FTP server. I guess that means all transfers are encoded so they can not be spied on. Is that correct?

Also, any advice on giving it a domain name?

Sorry for the lack of blogging

Sorry about that! Anyway, I set the server up on the local network, and thanks to Richard it is up on the internet now. It can be accessed from ftp://65.175.195.33 the user name is julian and the password is XXXXXX. I am working on assigning it a domain name so I don't have to just type in the IP address.

Also, the IP address without the FTP is the IP of all the computers in the school. I thought that was interesting.

Ubuntu

I decided to download Ubuntu 9.04 beta because it has a good setup for a mailserver, according to the specs on the site.http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta#New%20features%20since%20Ubuntu%208.10

I can not tell the specs of the machine, because the bios is very old. It will not give me the processor or anything.

GUI

Since Ubuntu Server Edition does not have a GUI, I am installing gnome (default with normal Ubuntu) because I think it will make managing this a lot easier. I hope it works!

Install failed-bad HDD

The computer would not boot up on the 6.5 gig HDD, so I used a different one.

I changed my project-where I'm at

I changed my project to making an email server with ubuntu. I am installing Ubuntu Server edition on a computer, and I have some basic instructions on how to make an email server.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer

Didn't work

Alright. I'm about ready to give up. The computer would not boot. I think I'll keep looking for instructions, but I don't know.

Uh Oh...

I haven't been blogging much... but that is because I have not gotten ANYWHERE since finding the guide and downloading parts. I can not get the computer to work. Hopefully it will VERY SOON, because this is starting to seem like it is impossible.

Guide...

here is the guide I'm using...
http://www.rocksclusters.org/roll-documentation/base/5.1/

By the way, it wants 1 gig of ram, but I'm sure I can dig that up or come somewhere close enough to it... I've run plenty of computers on less ram than recommended.

Just found something interesting

http://www.rocksclusters.org/

I think that is what I want to do... it simplifies everything a lot too.

Rethinking...

I decided to rethink my idea, and I am only going to start out with 2 nodes (master and slave). It won't show any speed, but it should be a lot easier to get up and running. Here is my updated list...

24-port network switch 1
Motherboard 2
CPU 2
PC cases 2
128 MB SDRAM SIMMs 4
100 Mb/s ethernet adapters 3
HDD 2
SVGA adapter 2
CD-ROM 1
Keyboard 1
Monitor 1
Monitor/keyboard 4 way switch boxes 1
keyboard extension cables 1
video extension cables 1
network cables 3
Surge Protector outlets 1
Total Nodes 2

I'm going for it!

Alright, so I am going for the gold here and am going to attempt to make a 5 node system (one main computer and 4 nodes, or slaves). Here is the basic list I am using, adapted from http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/beowulf/tutorial/building.html.

24-port network switch 1
Motherboard 5
CPU 5
PC cases 5
128 MB SDRAM SIMMs 10
100 Mb/s ethernet adapters 6
HDD 5
SVGA adapter 5
CD-ROM 1
Keyboard 1
Monitor 1
Monitor/keyboard 4 way switch boxes 2
keyboard extension cables 4
video extension cables 4
network cables 6
Surge Protector outlets 1
Total Nodes 5

Sorry about the formatting...

I am currently downloading Fedora (open source redhad), opensolaris (open source solaris), mandriva (updated mandrake linux), and xubuntu (ubuntu with the xfce window manager instead of gnome)

AHHH!

AHHHHH! HEEEELLLPPPP!!! WHATS GOING ONN???? WHAT AM I DOING??!?