Talking about the web, software and more…
I’m at the end of an era. After several years of this site being a blog where I haven’t posted much I’ve decided to do a redesign and move the blog to a directory.
The main reason for this is that I am planning to write some windows (good chance there will be Mac too 
) software after reading a post on Lifehacker.
I hope to complete this new design before the end of this week, and the software done before christmas. It will be free, don’t worry. 
Hope you like the new design…
While writing some PHP software to detail the server information i came across a problem. I searched the web high and low but couldn’t find a way of returning the host server OS. So I decided to write some solutions myself.
Solution 1: (Return example: Linux, Win32)
<?php
$S_SS = $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'];
$S_SS_E = explode('(',$S_SS);
$S_SS_E2 = explode(')',$S_SS_E[1]);
echo $S_SS_E2[0];
?>
In the method above we simply use the $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] variable and we explode out the brackets.
UPDATE: This method only works with apache software as far as I know – does not work with litespeed software. Untested on Lighttpd.
Solution 2:
<?php
$os_string = php_uname('s');
if (strpos(strtoupper($os_string), 'WIN')!==false) {
echo 'Windows';
} else {
echo 'Linux';
}
?>[/php]
Yesterday i installed Windows 7 on a PC that I built. I’ve been using Windows 7 for about 2 hours now, and i am very impressed. It is a very big improvement over Vista (I downgraded from Vista to XP because it anoyyed me so much).
I also got a Wacom Bamboo Tablet for my birthday recently, and it has been interesting playing with the touch support in Windows 7.
I shall be buying a new GFX Card soon so I can run blender smoothly.
So. Its been about 3 months since my last post. I have now moved the rack out into the server room and the servers are all sitting in it waiting, just waiting…
Well, i say that but several of them are running – there is a local development server, and a teamviewer server which i use to access the network from remote locations such as at school.
I am hoping to get some “new” tower PCs before christmas which we plan to put together as a cluster.
We are just waiting on an internet connection now, i have been emailing companies and getting quotes for lines . I have got one or two in mind so far…
I have included pictures of the current setup with the rack and the servers in it. (Sorry about the quality – they were taken with an iphone camera).
BTW – the cables have now been tidyed up, and are neatly tied to each side of the rack seperating Power and Data cables
Today my server rack cabinet arrived. Its a 42U compaq 10,000 with one of the rear doors missing… >.<
I have been playing around with server positions and other stuff, while it is in the warm of my office before being moved out to the datacenter where it is a frosty 5.7 degrees celsius.
I have included some pictures below for those that are interested
This is the first of hopefully many server racks for JCKD Hosting. Part 3 of this series is hopefully coming mid-april when we move into our facility. Stay tuned!
So yesterday i started to set up the JCKD Hosting datacenter, which will be completed in mid-April. Amongst other things i laid 3 Internet cables to the first server room, had the electrician put 6 plug sockets in on the wall for the first rack and installed a physical IDS. Photos below:
sorry for the bad quality – was taken with an iphone.