Its been quite some time....and Now Debbie has some sisters

At this point my 2 to 3 week experiment has gone way over time but things are still progressing although the pace has slowed considerably. Biggest problem is getting time to work on Debbie and her sisters.

I've been doing some configuration tests with NFS and Samba trying to find the best mix of settings and permissions to allow both server systems equal access to the shared folders. I don't want Linux to override Windows and vice versa. So I've been playing with the server and a couple of Debian client boxes I set up and a couple of Windows clients, one running XP Pro and the other Win98SE.

I've also been toying with the idea of running some services like streaming content on a second subnet and perhaps over 802.11G wireless instead of the main wired 100 baseTX network. Especially since my son seems to think that Internet "radio" hiphop with music videos and Youtube is way cooler than real radio or broadcast TV.

First time I've felt like there's a bandwidth squeeze inside the house, usually my complaint is with the service coming into the house from the phone company.

Speaking of the phone company, we've been getting hit with pretty nasty thunderstorms with Ark building torrents coming down for hours but not days! Service from the phone company has been non-stop except when the power went out completely for very short periods. Then it didn't matter since the CPUs were off anyway. This leads me to a totally unscientific observation, Debbie and her two sisters didn't even hiccup when they got "dumped" by a couple of short power outages. Systems came right back up and didn't need any intervention on my behalf to fix themselves. The Win98SE box required a reload and the Win XP Pro box had to have chkdsk run to fix some clobbered sectors.