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| Jan, 19th 2015 :
We finally installed a Wiki! |
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8 years later, we're trying to push updates to the site that we migrated to use MediaWiki.
It's taking time to reinject contents there, but we're doing it. More links will appear and we'll reinject contents
that we had on our laptops that were never published, such as various howtos. Stay tuned.
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| December, 3th 2001 :
First beta release of our Linux Distro |
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Many people have asked us about the linux distro we use on the server.
We had used some Slackware components
after having removed unexpected files. But maintaining this solution was too
difficult so we built a file based distro:
Formilux was borned.
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| May, 6th 2001 :
New site created |
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Due to long repeated failures of the ADSL
line provided by France Telecom,
and the inefficiency of their support, we had to move the site to a stable
provider, online.net. We used this
occasion to give it a new style as you see here. The old one will be available
again at the old address
http://1u.homeip.net/ when the ADSL line comes back.
The new official address is now http://www.ant-computing.com/.
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| April, 29th 2001 :
New prototype finished! |
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The new version has been finished, and we took many photos during and after
assembly (most of them are currently available in img
directory). But we do not have much time to comment them yet.
So please, be patient and take a look at the album
(heavy for slow modems)...
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| April, 26th 2001 :
Just a try, but unsatisfied... |
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After all our thoughts about components choice and placement, we
finally built a new box we wanted to call version 1 but indeed,
not only was it ugly, it was also incomplete. We finally destroyed it
in favor of the real version 1. Not much to read about it, but several
photos taken with poor light.
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| April, 4th 2001 :
Really thin Lasagna Coolers (tm) for free ! |
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Tennmax has generously sent to
us 3 models of their Lasagna Coolers
which are very thin (1 cm) heatsink/fan modules. They are specifically
designed for 1U servers and are very efficient, even more than many
other bigger solutions. We'd like to thank them particularly because
they made us progress a lot in our researches. We finally understood
that our motherboard wasn't smartly designed and suffered from several
conception mistakes.
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| March, 11th 2001 :
New concepts |
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As a result of our brain masturbation we finally knew more precisely
what we needed for a new prototype. We progressively began to buy some
hardware and other pieces of metal, plastic, and tools, but this time
was still more towards paper than soldering.
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| March, 8th 2001 :
Slashdotted !!! |
It seems that our server has interested lots of people. After some mails
from fans, we have been slashdotted
! When we noticed it, the server wasn't reachable anymore. Then we
both rushed to our hoster's and discovered the proxy was dead. After
rebooting it, the ADSL line finally came down. We had to move the site
to a stronger provider (free.fr) on which it still resides temporarily.
This was a funny short night :-)
We were quickly asked for production-quality versions and began to
work again on it, planning for a version 1 prototype for late Q2 2001.
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| January, 20th 2001 :
Cool CompactFlash-ATA adapter for free ! |
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ESSKABEL has generously sent us
the CompactFlash-to-ATA adapter that we were trying to build for a few
months. Its design is purely perfect, it's robust and very very
small (far smaller than the one we were trying to do). They also
sell 44-pin adapters which we'll certainly test for a new
design. Special thanks to them for this helpful donation. We can now
stop playing with Eagle.
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| August 2000 :
First release, just for fun |
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This was our first server. We simply wanted a cheap,
small, and reliable Internet server, and this one took
to us only one week-end to build from scratch. It still disserves web
contents after several months of faultless production. It was based
only on salvage hardware (486...) but helped us a lot in understanding
what we really needed for a more serious version.
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