da | Back then, we didn't need no stinkin' terabytes. We barely needed megabytes.

I am sitting on the floor near my closet (but not *in* the closet) with my Linux server open in front of me. (It is in the closet.) The monitor which I hauled over from my desk has vaguely distressing text scrolling as the server rebuilds its disk index (reiserfsck /dev/md2 --fix-fixable). Yay for fixing fixables, and for not finding any unfixables.

This feels exactly the same as the last time I did similar maintenance, in 2007, and the time before that, with a few differences.

One, the monitor is LCD, so I didn't strain my back moving stuff around.
Two, the closet has approximately half the stuff in it as it did in 2007, and the computer stuff is properly labeled.
Three, the ancient dell desktop acting as my server is sitting next to its replacement, which is going to make me very happy to switch over when I can make that happen.

The dell is reaching its ninth birthday for all components except for the memory and disks, which are "only" four years old. It chugs along, consuming its 40 watts of power and serving up whatever data it is asked to with little complaint. Well- with complaint, but without failure. Well, major failure. Yet.

Its replacement is a mac Mini, which weighs maybe 1/50th as much, runs silent, and packs in something like 6 times the CPU (probably more). I don't need that much webserver; I think I'm going to run a vm running asterisk or some other experimental stuff.

There is a shelf in the closet, which will easily hold the mac mini, router, DSL modem, and 1TB external USB drive. By far the heaviest part of the setup will be the uninteruptable power supply.

Progress, it is a good thing.