Being Earth day, I was pursuing one of my many interests as a huge fan of clean and environmentally friendly technology. I found an article about converting an enclosed trailer to a Solar Power Trailer. I really wish I could afford all of this stuff. Maybe in a few years, the prices will come down enough and I’ll have enough bills paid off to build one of my own.
Just thought I would share it with everyone so if anyone else wants to build one maybe I can help out for the experience.
It looks like Spring is finally coming. The sun is shining, and I only need my jacket or a sweatshirt in the mornings. I’ve been working outside after work all week. Finishing the decorative wishing well in the yard, cleaning out the old planter boxes, raking, and starting to work in the planter box with my Ground Cultivator. I know it’s not much, but I really don’t need a roto-tiller since it’s a lot to store for such a small area, so I work a bit of ground at a time and rake it out and just keep going until it’s all nice and loose.
The veggies in the starter greenhouses are looking pretty good for the most part. I wish mt green peppers and tomatoes woud grow better. Only one or two of each plant has come up. I’ll probably have to buy some plants to suppliment the ones that are growing when I go to put them in the ground. Aside from that, everything else is growing great. I can’t wait to start using veggies fresh out of the garden this summer.
On another note, I have decided to get a newer Jeep. This one is getting to the point where I don’t want to keep putting money into it. It has 225,000 miles on it, and it’s running pretty good, but there are a bunch of quirks that it would be nice to do without. I’m setting up some test drives next week, and hope to have a new one soon. The dealerships all said financing won’t be a problem.
Hope to blog again soon, drill in the morning so I have to go.
Last night I figured out what was wrong with the computer I’m rebuilding for the rack. Turns out it was the motherboard. I took all of the parts out and installed the Syntax Motherboard I used to have in my main system. No more CRC Errors, no more errors of any type….but I need to pick up some more standard DDR memory for it (all I have in it now is 64MB). CentOS runs OK under 64 Mb and the only problem I have had so far was from the PSMOUSE advanced mouse driver and my KVM Switch. I dropped the mouse driver down to the Generic one, no wheel but it doesn’t do all sorts of unexpected things now.
I plan on using this machine as a development web server so I can free up the resources used on my desktop machine. It will also be more like what my web host is running. (CentOS 4.6)
I can’t afford to buy CPanel for a development machine, so I’ll use Ravencore, and follow this guide for some of the basic stuff. Since Ravencore is written in PHP and bash scripts, I might add some of my own features to it. I’ve written independent management scripts before… maybe I can make it mimic CPanel/WHM more closely.