Lords Of Dorkness have a look

[sheilalynn]

Re: Lords Of Dorkness have a look

Its Saturday woot! Wife and kids gone until tomorrow afternoon. I am gonna go get a lapdance and do some shots with the fellas. Just kidding.

Got a decent mother board, 3 GHZ Intel Pentium CPU, 2 Gigs of RAM. 3 Hard drives for a total of 580 Gigs and an old used case with a 500 watt PSU in it. Gonna make some coffee, insert some General Ekstra Sterk, and build a FreeBSD server. Sounds like fun eh?

I am torn on encryption..Geli or gdbe? Probably geli since I would like whole system partition to be encrypted with AES..But would suck entering passphrase during system boot when I only intend to access box via shell..I don't need any of this encrytipn just like to be all 007. All this extra storage for FTP gonna rock! What says SnusOn geeks?

Why BSD though instead of my favorite "alternate OS" of Ubuntu? :wink: But yeah, I'd stick with the geli since it has root encryption, does sector to sector encryption, is fast, can generate keys from several spots; but it does only data privacy instead of data integrity verification. Not such a big deal though since it's a server and not your laptop that could be easily stolen. And building computers...I'm starting to drool, hehe

[badlands]

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Why BSD though instead of my favorite "alternate OS" of Ubuntu? :wink: But yeah, I'd stick with the geli since it has root encryption, does sector to sector encryption, is fast, can generate keys from several spots; but it does only data privacy instead of data integrity verification. Not such a big deal though since it's a server and not your laptop that could be easily stolen. And building computers...I'm starting to drool, hehe

Wow you are the Queen Of Dorkness :P

I started using slackware linux a long time ago, probably late 90's or somewhere close to then. It made a good server and eventually a good desktop. Then the kernel started to get huge, ugly and insecure. Got turned on to FreeBSD because it was so similar.. BSD style init files. Command line was even similar. Port system beats building everything from source. Can get through FreeBSD kernel config in minutes.

I did use geli. One of my drives had an old FreeBSD 6 install on it. Was able to cvsup source straight to 7.2-RELEASE-p4..World built and recompiled kernel with geli rather than adding to /boot/loader.conf..Only took 5 hours!

But I am typing this post from Ubuntu "Jaunty Jackalope". Second to none as a desktop imho.

[sheilalynn]

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Wow you are the Queen Of Dorkness :P

I'll take that as a compliment :wink:

I did check out BSD a while ago, but still preferred Ubuntu. I started off with Slackware too...back when you had to install the whole X package by hand, configure all the equipment to even get X running, swear when you couldn't find the exact specs on one peripheral, and pretty much compile any software you wanted to run on it. But it just ran so much faster and was worth the trouble...not to mention the whole "wtf are you hacking?????" when someone would see the command line interface and assume that's what you were doing since they had never seen anything other than Windows.

Those were the days :P

[snupy]

Yall are a bunch of Unixheads. I switched to Debian Lenny 64 bit after using Gentoo for 5 years. Although, I might switch again to Debian Testing, but use smxi for updates.

Now, as far as BSD, I heard it was dying, so why in the world would you use it as a server? Unixware is the future. :shock:

[badlands]

FreeBSD is progressing along as it always has. I have been hearing that for a long time though. This is funny http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/BSD_is_Dying. The Chinese government's secure OS "Kylin" is just a hardened FreeBSD 5.3. They hit US DoD computers hundreds of times a minute. Last I read they were working on %100 military deployment of it.

If BSD can keep the CIA puzzled it must be worth being kept alive.

[snupy]

FreeBSD is progressing along as it always has. I have been hearing that for a long time though.

I don't know. I heard Netcraft confirmed BSD is dying. Unixware is the future. :shock:

The Chinese government's secure OS "Kylin" is just a hardened FreeBSD 5.3.

I thought it was a pirated Ubuntu. The Chinese pirate everything.

*snicker*

[snupy]

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I don't know alot about computers, mostly internet stuff. I bought a Mac for the sheer fact that it's simple, efficient, and works wonders.

That's ok. Macs are to hardware as AOL is to internet access.

[cobrageezer]

WHAT, I now feel much better about myself as I have no clue what most of that thread means. Yay!!!!

[sheilalynn]

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I don't know alot about computers, mostly internet stuff. I bought a Mac for the sheer fact that it's simple, efficient, and works wonders.

That's ok. Macs are to hardware as AOL is to internet access.

AOL is still in existance? :lol:

[sheilalynn]

If BSD can keep the CIA puzzled it must be worth being kept alive.

Hmmm...must have an old box around here someplace where I can tinker away with BSD...all in the name of science of course :P

Edit: Found a Live CD version but it looks like that project was stopped a few years ago...

[badlands]

If BSD can keep the CIA puzzled it must be worth being kept alive.

Hmmm...must have an old box around here someplace where I can tinker away with BSD...all in the name of science of course :P

Edit: Found a Live CD version but it looks like that project was stopped a few years ago...

Just grab a copy of one of the production releases off their website. Just need first ISO if you just want base install. You can always install other stuff from ports. I never install X on FreeBSD. ISO takes longer to download than to install. Less than 10 minutes on a p4.

But in the name of science you'll probably want to build a custom kernel. So updating source, building world, editing kernel, building kernel, installing kernel then world merging config = HOURS of fun! Let me know if you come up with an old box

[CM]

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Its Saturday woot! Wife and kids gone until tomorrow afternoon. I am gonna go get a lapdance and do some shots with the fellas. Just kidding.

Got a decent mother board, 3 GHZ Intel Pentium CPU, 2 Gigs of RAM. 3 Hard drives for a total of 580 Gigs and an old used case with a 500 watt PSU in it. Gonna make some coffee, insert some General Ekstra Sterk, and build a FreeBSD server. Sounds like fun eh?

I am torn on encryption..Geli or gdbe? Probably geli since I would like whole system partition to be encrypted with AES..But would suck entering passphrase during system boot when I only intend to access box via shell..I don't need any of this encrytipn just like to be all 007. All this extra storage for FTP gonna rock! What says SnusOn geeks?

I haz i7(not telling the model 8D)@4,5ghz, 8 gigs of ram, 2 hard drives for a total of 800 gigs and new case with a corsair 1200W PSU. Sounds like fun eh? ; D

[badlands]

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I haz i7(not telling the model 8D)@4,5ghz, 8 gigs of ram, 2 hard drives for a total of 800 gigs and new case with a corsair 1200W PSU. Sounds like fun eh? ; D

Nice! What you gonna do with it?

[CM]

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I haz i7(not telling the model 8D)@4,5ghz, 8 gigs of ram, 2 hard drives for a total of 800 gigs and new case with a corsair 1200W PSU. Sounds like fun eh? ; D

Nice! What you gonna do with it?

Play and hang out at snuson. ; )

And gonna strech the limits of settings in the games and see how far I can go with my computer(well, everything runs smoothly allready..)