Sep 29 2008

The Internet has given us A.D.D — Evidence!

An inter­view on the Col­bert Report pretty much backed up what I said in my post, I thought it was pretty inter­est­ing. Its a short inter­view with Nicholas Carr about the way the Inter­net is chang­ing the way we think.

Check it out!

Inter­view on the Col­bert Report


Sep 28 2008

The start of something great

I’ve men­tioned in a pre­vi­ous post about a project Hora, Jesse, and I are mak­ing, but I haven’t gone into any detail at all, nor will I go into very much detail. I will tell you that its a restau­rant appli­ca­tion that is going to work with text mes­sag­ing, the iPhone, and the web. In the last month or so we have been learn­ing some tech­nolo­gies, and on Mon­day, we will have final­ized our design specs, which means we can finally make this thing happen!

Yes­ter­day, we put together a server for all our test­ing pur­poses, and its def­i­nitely the most ghetto server you will ever see.

Heatsink

Adding mas­sive fat heat sink to server

We wanted to be able to run this in one of our houses, and if we were going to do that we wanted the thing to be as quiet as pos­si­ble. We went out and bought a big heat sink that wouldn’t require the use of a fan, and we got the qui­etest power sup­ply we could find. One of the prob­lems was that the power sup­ply sits directly beside the heatsink, and there­for, we mod­ded the case so that the power sup­ply would sit where the DVD rom drive used to sit, since we don’t need that after we’ve installed Ubuntu any­ways. Any holes that were left open were cov­ered with duck­tape, and viola, we have an extremely quiet server.

putting together server

Notice the power sup­ply on the front of our server, ghetto or what?

And now, its up and run­ning! Incase any­one is won­der­ing what our plan is for the server, we will be run­ning Ubuntu for the OS, Apache to serve web, Python to code (to be more spe­cific, the Django frame­work), and MySQL for the database.

server room

Our server room

This server is going to be put into good use in the com­ing months, hope­fully this is the start of some­thing great.

Can’t wait to show every­one what we’ve cooked up when we are all done ;)