From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 21:56:29 -0300 (CLST)
I started my new job (at MuleSource) this week and, for the next month, am using my old server. This is the machine I brought across from the UK to Chile - I remember buying it almost as a talisman of "the old world" - although very little is the same hardware now, having been replaced bit by bit over the years. Anyway, a couple of days ago the CDRWDVD died (in an odd way, locking the IDE controller and taking the machine down). And tonight, looking through the logs to make sure things had been truly fixed (by unplugging the drive), I see: Feb 28 23:09:06 noisy kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0. Feb 28 23:09:06 noisy kernel: Bank 1: 9000000000000171 [...] Mar 2 02:25:25 noisy kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0. Mar 2 02:25:25 noisy kernel: Bank 2: 940040000000017a Ouch. Luckily I have another processor laying around, but it seems like I really need to buy a new server (doing dev work on this could be simpler). Unfortunately it's hard to find good "middle range" machines here. I can get cheap PCs, or expensive commercial servers, but "workstations" are hard to find. My current box (from DN) has easily outlived a cheap PC I bought here - how do I find something similar? Andrew
1.86GHz, 4GB, 1TB
From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:01:54 -0300 (CLST)
Seems like the best way is to build it yourself. The following is driven largely by what memory appears to be plentiful (DDR2-2400): Case 28.990 http://pcfactory.cl/ficha_producto.php?id_producto=3918 Power Supply 19.600 http://pcfactory.cl/ficha_producto.php?id_producto=3910 Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz 138.990 http://pcfactory.cl/ficha_producto.php?id_producto=3985 Mother Board Asus P4 P5LD2-SE 74.300 http://pcfactory.cl/ficha_producto.php?id_producto=3803 Generic Memory 4GB (4 x 50.500) 202.000 http://pcfactory.cl/ficha_producto.php?id_producto=3474 SATA Disks (4 x 320GB @ 74.700, 3 in SW Raid 5) 298.800 ------- 762.500 Andrew