Ben Reichelt’s Weblog

Haven’t been posting much lately, I haven’t been feeling too morivated lately to much computer related stuff outside of work, so the blogging usually slides in sync with that.

I have been working on setting up a new server down in the basement however.  Erin’s previous employer was getting rid of some computers so I had her grab me one. 1Ghz, 512 RAM, 10GB hard drive for free?  I like that price
Setting up a new machine is kind of a pain in the ass because you have to go download all the software you need to run all your stuff, its usually hard enough to simply remember what needs to be installed.  Here’s my list of server software that I install, this list grows as I learn new things:

• Sql server (One of MSDE/2000/2005)
• Sql server client tools
• MySql Server
• MySql client tools
• .Net 2.0
• .Net 2.0 SDK
• Cruise Control
• Subversion
• TortoiseSVN
• Apache
• PHP
• Ruby on Rails
• OnTime

I would love to have all these on a DVD or something so I could streamline the process a bit, but the problem is that some of these change so quickly that it would be out of date by the next time I want to install them.