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<title>
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About us...
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/content/style.css" />
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<h1>
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About us...
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<p>
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Hello! I am Jan, the server owner and I write this <i>about us</i> page on behalf of my team members.<br />
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We are a group of students hosting a variety of services on an old server that I found on the sidewalk.
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These services provide the necessary foundation to host a few school projects.
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Who we are
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<img src="/common/content/img/group.jpg" alt="Image of the team" />
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<p>
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From left to right: Ilja, Jakob, Jan [me] and Erik. <br />
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We are in the process of finishing school and our last semester in computer science is a project of our choice.
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Our main project is a social media platform but we are hosting some other projects as well. Turns out, we are better at
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general server management than actual software development...
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About the server
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<img src="/common/content/img/server.jpg" alt="Image of the server">
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The server is a 2006 Dell PowerEdge [whatever number goes here] faturing the 2.66 GHz socket 771 eqivalent of some
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Intel Core 2 Quad which was considered powerful back then (I guess?). Memory wise, the system has to offer the incredible
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amount of four GiB ECC DDR2 RAM which do not quite fulfill the performance and capacity requirements of
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most real world applications today but are plenty to host some two or three files on a web server. <br />
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Basically, that thing is <b>*s l o w*</b> but more than enough for a my internet private connection.
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Guess what, there might have been a reason why it was thrown out by its previous owners. <br />
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As for storage, the server came with three enterprise grade Dell branded Western Digitals (one of which died) and I threw
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in the SSD I pulled from my old laptop as a boot disk. Another laptop hard drive was given to me by a friend but there are
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no free S-ATA connectors left. [If someone at our school wants to donate their old drive controller expansion card, feel
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free to approach me or one of my team mates. You’ll be the hero of the week and you will be given credit here.]<br />
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Oh, btw: It is woth mentioning the fan. Yes, only one fan (plus the one in the power supply). Before the server was moved
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to the basement it was the loudest device in the kitchen easily capable of exceeding the noise level of my 15 year old
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fridge twice.
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</p>
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<p>
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Let’s talk software. <br />
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We currently run Ubuntu Server with a custom installation capable of doing GUI stuff as well but we rarely use that.
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The best use I found so far is to access internal status web pages via OpenSSH with X forwarding and Firefox. <br />
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The server came with an installation of Windowze Server 2003 but we had no login credentials and who uses Microsoft
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products anyways? [BTW: The drives were filled with personal data of the employees. To all enterprises: PleAze WIPe
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THe DaTa Off All SERvERS YOU EVeR THrow OUt. You do not want to be in the place former NCIX employees found themselves in
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a few years ago.]<br />
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Apart from that, there is not much to say here except for the fact that Ubuntu has become worse over the time I used it and
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i’d not choose it again. It is just what was (and still am) most famillar with.
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</p>
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<h2>
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Our goals
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