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.

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.

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.