I finally took the plunge and built a dedicated machine instead of playing with spare parts. It's an x9scm with a version 2 e3 processor. I wanted a g34 board that I could load up with a ton of ram, but that kind of daydreaming is what took me so long.
Anyways, I can't complain about the system other than I am having data xfer issues because of hairpinning on 100meg ethernet. I plan to cough up some more dough and get a good managed port ethernet switch so I can plan a real network out.
My question, I am playing with my setup and I am already starting to consume space. I am quickly reaching a point where I can no longer pull my data off the server if I want to nuke and pave. Are there any things I want to enable, that will make life easier or better that would suck to add later?
I do want to set up the bittorrent client, and I do want to set up the media sharing stuff for my ps3. Unfortunately the tutorials I have seen appear great to show how to set them up, but I am clueless as to what I am really doing (monkey see, monkey do?). Also, most of the setup is wide open, for the sake of demonstrating in an expedient manner. If someone has a link to a "not as dumb as a box of rocks, but not a bsd god" tutorial of sorts, fire it my way... please!
Anyways, I can't complain about the system other than I am having data xfer issues because of hairpinning on 100meg ethernet. I plan to cough up some more dough and get a good managed port ethernet switch so I can plan a real network out.
My question, I am playing with my setup and I am already starting to consume space. I am quickly reaching a point where I can no longer pull my data off the server if I want to nuke and pave. Are there any things I want to enable, that will make life easier or better that would suck to add later?
I do want to set up the bittorrent client, and I do want to set up the media sharing stuff for my ps3. Unfortunately the tutorials I have seen appear great to show how to set them up, but I am clueless as to what I am really doing (monkey see, monkey do?). Also, most of the setup is wide open, for the sake of demonstrating in an expedient manner. If someone has a link to a "not as dumb as a box of rocks, but not a bsd god" tutorial of sorts, fire it my way... please!
