Got my hands on a new server box for work. It was an anonymous beige box but it turned out to have an AMD Duron 1G with 256M ram. Compared to the Pentium MMX 233 with 96M I was using it flies. The old box took about 4 seconds to bring up a drupal page, the new box takes about a second. My desktop pc at work is a pentium 2 450M with 256M ram: just about bearable running Windows XP.
I tried cloning the disk from my old server but the new server would not boot so I just did a clean ubuntu hoary install. Since it was a decent box I did a desktop install rather than a headless server. I copied over the drupal installation of the intranet easily enough: moving drupal is really easy, dump the database, copy /var/www, load the database, that's about it.
VNC server running on the new server is just brilliant. It really is good enough to wean me off ssh. Even running the client here at home on my laptop through an ssh tunnel it is fast enough to play tetris on.
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