So, for the past few weeks now I’ve been trying to figure out how lower my power footprint in the world. To do so, I’ve been writing down the power consumption of nearly every device in my apartment. I also have switched my web hosting from a dedicated server to a VPS host (which hisyn.com resides on now) since my usage of the server had dropped considerably.
It’s live! www.armygamingchampionships.com
The first site on a nice little web hosting cluster I’ve been working on for work.  I’ll have to report hardware configuration when I have the time.
I played around with DesktopBSD and PC-BSD for a while and found that I hated PC-BSD. I truely do not like it’s custom package system as it destroys the beauty that is *BSD, ports+packages.
DesktopBSD impressed me more, even if it’s a bit behind in the times I found the OS completely usable and updatable from the GUI interface. In fact, I decided to run a test with it and installed it on a File server, Tera, I was putting together. I was going to go with my trusty FreeBSD install or possibly a Fedora Core 6 install (since I work with FC a lot for work) but decided to try something different. My thinking here was “could this OS be useful in the SOHO/small business environment” and so far after 2 months of running it this way I’d have to say yes. I’ve tried to use the GUI to do most software updating or installing, rather then the usual command line and haven’t run into any major road blocks. I need to do more SAMBA configuring via the GUI though to see if this could really be used in SOHO environment for non-uber geeks