Magic City VitaeLog

I've rolled over and realized that no matter how much marketing is thrown at the problem, windows server 2008 is just not as good a server platform as I need it to be.  I found it interesting that on the same hardware, Linux offers MORE driver compatibility, MORE reliability, and MORE speed.  I got to a point where the server started rebooting every 20-30 minutes because it couldn't allocate enough system resources to handle 3 USB WebCams.  On the same hardware, I am able to run 5 USB Webcams under Ubuntu Linux.  The reason I wasn't running 5 under Server 2008 was because I couldn't find drivers that supported them.  So, after minimal hairpulling, I've restored almost my entire system from backup, and loaded Ubuntu Linux 8.04.1, Server edition.  I had Debian on here before, but I was not too happy with the forced X-Windows boot.

 Over the next week, I'll get Zoneminder loaded back on here, and get the cams working again.  No more random 'oops... that webcam just stopped working, and now you have to reboot to free up that resource' problems.

I have less priority for the Gallery.  It has this annoying problem where anytime you move the db files from one place to another, the entire db structure falls apart.  I don't have ANY problems with any other database.  Everytime I just brush past the gallery2 db files, the damn thing falls apart.  Oh well, I Knew it was going to happen, so I guess that's why I never REALLY got the gallery loaded under windows.