[18:14] <ibeardslee> morning
[21:33] <olly> morning
[21:59] <mwhudson> hmm hmm i guess i should upgrade to utopic...
[22:04] <ajmitch_> and I should upgrade from precise
[22:06] <mwhudson> but first, backups
[22:07] <ibeardslee> hmmm .. I should start planning to upgrade my home server from lucid
[22:08] <mwhudson> you've got a whole six months!
[22:09] <ibeardslee> but that should also involve a hardware upgrade/replacement plan
[22:09] <ibeardslee> either to a 64bit capable CPU or an arm based CPU
[22:25] <olly> or both?
[22:27] <ibeardslee> sure .. that could work as well .. but are 64bit ARM CPUs & devices going to be available enough and spec'd at the home server market?
[22:27] <ibeardslee> .. and by the time Lucid comes out of support.
[22:31] <ajmitch_> they're being used for phones & tablets, so probably will be available for a small server
[22:36] <mwhudson> yes, but mobile parts make for fairly rubbish server parts on the whole
[22:37] <mwhudson> (see the millions of pandaboard like things where the ethernet is usb based)
[22:38] <ibeardslee> and generally any decent ammount of disk will be USB based as well
[22:38] <mwhudson> yeah
[22:38] <mwhudson> some boards have sata
[22:38] <ibeardslee> but usually just one sata port
[22:38] <mwhudson> but generally not power over sata, so ...
[22:39] <ibeardslee>  .. and then there is the fact that a couple of the apps on my home server will need to be recompiled for the arm
[22:42] <ajmitch_> what do you use the home server for?
[22:44] <ibeardslee> the one that will catch me will be seafile
[22:46] <ibeardslee> essentially it's mail server and file store (plus dhcp, dns, apt cache etc)
[22:47] <ajmitch_> so no powerful cpu needed or video decoding
[22:48] <ibeardslee> .. well not neccessarily .. currently the VIA C3 isn't that sort of machine so I haven't done anything there.
[22:50] <ibeardslee> it could end up as a media server encode/decoder box
[22:50] <ajmitch_> or steam streaming
[22:52] <ibeardslee> yeah mythtv backend box
[22:52] <ibeardslee> of course I could split that into multiple boxes etc
[23:55] <mwhudson> well that was boring