Vendetta Solutions Notebook

While reading up on kernel configs I stumbled upon this site:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

I recently ran into an issue where my ide controller was dieing and caused me to lose my 100gig hdd (and my gentoo install) on my desktop. I took this opportunity to purchase another terabyte sata drive. My windows XP install sits on a 20gig ide hdd which is showing signs of decay due to the failing controller. My goal was to move my XP install from one drive to another while maintaining file integrity. After a little trial and error as well as a lot of researching, I found 2 ways of doing this. One of the methods is as follows:

Recently, I purchased a new box to use as a (multipurpose)storage server. I have gentoo running on it headless and everything is done via ssh. To make use of this I decided I would use it as a local rsync server for my desktop and laptop to sync to, creating less bandwidth use both for my connection and the rsync mirrors…

see below

Introduction

Distcc is a wonderful program that allows you to divide the task of compiling items among different comptuers. For example, let’s say you have three computers in your home network: two Athlon XP’s and an old Pentium Classic. It would be painful to compile X on the Pentium when installing Gentoo. distcc allows you to let the two faster computers contribute extra CPU cycles to help the old computer along. I could go into more details, but they are outside the scope of this document. This mini-HOWTO is very simlified and there are many other options for playing with distcc that can be found online. Hopefully this will be enough to get you started.