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Well, after a week of waiting, my KVM came. This is the model I bought. It features rack mounts, 8 ports, hot key switching, manual switching, keyboard/mouse/monitor reset without power down, and auto scan.

After spending an hour and a half rewiring my room to get one extra plug, I discovered I had an empty plug right next to where I wanted the KVM…so I ended up unrewiring. So now I had it installed and I was dying to test it out. So I hooked devnulled(this server) and sputneek(my athlon64 gaming box) to the kvm. The keyboard I used was a Logitech Cordless Desktop Express.

After powering on the KVM it auto scanned for connected computers and changed the light color for the port to green. Since I was testing it on sputneek first, I pressed the first button to put us on that computer. Now I’m going to pause and say a few things I found odd before I got to this point. When I was flipping through the instruction paper, it had warnings about how the device can cause some radio interference. I still to this day have no clue why, but it did. When gnome came up on the computer, my mouse would just go psycho when I would move it and my screen was a bit blurry.

To fix this wonderful problem was fairly simple. I booted ubuntu backup, and since my keyboard worked, switched to tty1 and ran a sudo dpkg-reconfigure -y xserver-xorg && sudo killall gdm && gdm && exit. That fixed it as it basically recreated my xorg.conf with the new hardware that it detected, as the mouse and keyboard identify as different devices from my Logitech ones. That also fixed the blurriness issues I had.

On devnulled, there was no problem at all. It worked beautifully.

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Well I was on a friend of mine’s (Helio, an admin of the wyldryde.org irc network) server and he had usermin up. I had always wanted to play with it on this server, I have just always forgotten about it. Well today I decided to get it setup and configured. Usermin/Webmin are very great tools for admins on the go.

Webmin allows you to control basically every aspect of your server and more. Usermin comes in when you want users to be able to control their accounts and settings, just like being logged in at the box physically. I have Usermin setup to allow file upload/download, apache configuration, mysql administration, and protegresql administration though it. Tip: Make sure you run the setup.sh script after you install the Usermin port from /usr/ports/sysutils/usermin. The message makes you think that it needs to only be run to update to a new version, it doesn’t. :)

Well, one day until my KVM gets here. :D Don’t freak out on my if the site does not get updated every day during this week, I have at least two regular tests and final exams all this week and Monday and Tuesday of next week, then I’m off for two weeks. During that time, this site will get some work, and I’d like to get some work done on osdever.net and IllusionOS.

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0.0 Wow this project is getting expensive, I just ordered the last parts I needed to build my rack case, nothing to go in it, and I’m already up to $253.59USD in parts for the thing, and it’s 16U. I found a kit on the internet for $255 that you can build a 28U case…but that is not a pretty case at all, just metal bars, plus you don’t get to build. :( I’ll update the project page tomorrow/tonight.

EDIT $104.29 of this was my KVM, forgot about that. ;)

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Well as you can see, the site has been updated. There are over 15 Wordpress plugins installed(not all have been setup for this template yet) and a new theme. The admin control has a new theme now as well. I’ll be updating the content pages over a period of a week or so, if school allows this. :)

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I’m also starting a new kernel today. It’s goals right now will be to give me a playground to mess with some ASM and interrupts without screwing up my other OS. I may even follow the #osdev fad and add smp support to it, and make it IllusionOS’s kernel.

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