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By Zachary, November 5, 2010 3:06 am

Shiny! New! ACTUAL SIZE!

That’s right, folks! We’ve done it again and upgraded to our new server. To help answer your questions we’ve created a new feature: Q&A!

Q: What are the specs of the new server?
A: We are currently running an Intel QuadCore Xeon at 2.93GHz, 8GB of memory, 2 500GB HDDs in a hardware raid, a Radeon HD 5670, and a whole bunch of fans. Its operating system of choice is Windows Server 2008 R2.

Q: Is it running this web page?
A: Yes, WordPress is an excellent open source blog platform. It can run on almost any operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) and web server (IIS, Apache). Every resource you see rendered here is from our new server.

Q: Does it run the fountain too?
A: No, not yet. Moving the web sites over was hard enough. There are still a few things that need to be worked out before we can completely upgrade.

Q: So all it does is run the web pages, then?
A: Yep.

Q: That’s boring.
A: That’s not a question.

Q: Sorry. What can I do to help?
A: Well, first you can make me a sandwich and. Oh wait, you meant with the server, right?

Q: Right. Hey, wait, can you ask questions?
A: Yes I can, and yes you can get involved. Enlight is always looking for new spunky people to help out. If you would be interested in helping out, feel free to drop in to our meetings on Tuesday nights by 1099 ECB around 6p.

Q: One last question. Is this really “Actual Size”?
A: Yes, yes it is.

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By Zachary, October 26, 2010 10:05 pm

Look out, Enlight is setting up a new server! During the next few weeks, the fountain and web site will be up and down. While we try to get everything right on the first try, not everything always goes according to plan. We’ll post more information about the server and upgrade once all the dust settles.

Stay tuned!

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By waterppk, July 18, 2008 5:09 pm

Sometime last year I was buying parts for a project and decided to purchase a grab bag of ceramic capacitors thinking that it wouldn’t be any big deal to dig though them and turn them into a useful assortment of parts.  There are a few logical breakdowns here:

When you buy the “grab bag” you’re really buying a bag of about 20 values of capacitor, in a really disorganized bag which renders the bulk of what you’ve got useless.  So it comes down to you really just need a 47uF capacitor, and you’ll never find one because there isn’t one in there

They take forever to sort and even when you’re done you just have a slightly more organized 6 piles of random component values instead of one huge pile!

Finally, there’s probably a reason they ended their lives as “grab bag” capacitors – in this case a lot of the components look like they’d gotten stuck somewhere in a piece of equipment, they were all roughed up and missing chunks of ceramic, hardly something you can identify much less feel good about using.

Organizing a Mess of Capacitors