[ilugd] Where can I buy 3.5 to 5.25 IDE HDD mounting brackets?
A bit of an oddball request, and apologies if this is not kosher for this list. I have quite a few old-but-still-working hard disks lying about, from 2.1GB to 500GB. I also have an old P3 machine lying about and was wondering if I could put them to use to get a toy media server out of it and in the process get some actual experience with doing fun things like flipping a hard disk's power supply on and off while writing data to a RAID. Problem is that the number of drive bays is far smaller than the 4 hard disks I want to fit inside. I've seen aluminium brackets that can be screwed into a 5.25 drive bay that can hold a 3.5 hard disk. Anyone know where I can buy some of those? Also, I'd prefer to stay with Linux but ZFS sounds absolutely awesome, though I know that anything solaris is dead. Am considering Nexenta. Does anything LVM-ish or similar compare? Cheers Aniruddha Shankar ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage
Hi, I have an Airtel broadband at home. As per Airtel's FUP even unlimited plans come with a 25GB cap on the usage.Even though i am on that plan since 8 months, since past 2 months after some 20 days i get a mail from airtel saying that my limit has expired and speed goes down to 256 KBPS (from 1 MBPS). Well, even though there are 5 laptops at my home, I still feel that its not possible to download 25 gbs in 20 days considering the fact that all of us staying are working and we do not download movies everyday. Is there a way i can find out the daily usage on each machine through a setup on a *single* computer? Appreciate your help. Regards, Abhinav ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage
On 03/26/2011 10:52 AM, Abhinav Sahai wrote: I have an Airtel broadband at home. As per Airtel's FUP even unlimited plans come with a 25GB cap on the usage.Even though i am on that plan since 8 months, since past 2 months after some 20 days i get a mail from airtel saying that my limit has expired and speed goes down to 256 KBPS (from 1 MBPS). 25 GB ( bytes, not bits ) is quite a large amout of traffic to comsume in a single month, unless there is a lot of streaming, downloads of large media etc going on. At home, I seem to average about 18 - 21 GB a month, and this is including the fact that we do some streaming ( BBC's iplayer! in HD ) and i have internet radio running through the waking hours of the day. Is there a way i can find out the daily usage on each machine through a setup on a *single* computer? Does the router/modem device have an snmp option ? that is the only way ( doing metrics at the edge ) that you are going to get accurate figures. Also might be worth making sure your neighbours are not 'sharing' the connections :) - kB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 03/26/2011 10:52 AM, Abhinav Sahai wrote: I have an Airtel broadband at home. As per Airtel's FUP even unlimited plans come with a 25GB cap on the usage.Even though i am on that plan since 8 months, since past 2 months after some 20 days i get a mail from airtel saying that my limit has expired and speed goes down to 256 KBPS (from 1 MBPS). 25 GB ( bytes, not bits ) is quite a large amout of traffic to comsume in a single month, unless there is a lot of streaming, downloads of large media etc going on. At home, I seem to average about 18 - 21 GB a month, and this is including the fact that we do some streaming ( BBC's iplayer! in HD ) and i have internet radio running through the waking hours of the day. Yup, that's why even I am wondering. While airtel's site shows up my usage details including time/date and data transfered, i am quite unsure if that's correct, however i can't complain until i have some proof from my side. Is there a way i can find out the daily usage on each machine through a setup on a *single* computer? Does the router/modem device have an snmp option ? Not sure if that's there, probably if you guide me on how to find that out, i will be answer you. By the way, it's the default Beetel wifi router that comes with Airtel connection, if that helps. that is the only way ( doing metrics at the edge ) that you are going to get accurate figures. Also might be worth making sure your neighbours are not 'sharing' the connections :) Am sure they are not, as its secured and we know nobody in the neighbourhood, yeah we are bad at that :) - kB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Where can I buy 3.5 to 5.25 IDE HDD mounting brackets?
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Aniruddha Shankar hoipol...@gmail.com wrote: A bit of an oddball request, and apologies if this is not kosher for this list. I have quite a few old-but-still-working hard disks lying about, from 2.1GB to 500GB. I also have an old P3 machine lying about and was wondering if I could put them to use to get a toy media server out of it and in the process get some actual experience with doing fun things like flipping a hard disk's power supply on and off while writing data to a RAID. Problem is that the number of drive bays is far smaller than the 4 hard disks I want to fit inside. I've seen aluminium brackets that can be screwed into a 5.25 drive bay that can hold a 3.5 hard disk. Anyone know where I can buy some of those? [...] You should be able to get these with a little scrounging-around at Nehru Place. They are also quite easy to machine, if it comes to that. Your bigger problem is going to be power: It is unlikely that the power supply of an old P3 machine will support many disks. Second problem is the number of available IDE slots, though one could purchase PCI IDE cards. Regards, Gora ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] a/c package
hi, I am looking for a good accounting package on Linux. I am aware about GunCash Any other package if any one is using thanks in advance chandra ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] a/c package
I am looking for a good accounting package on Linux. I am aware about GunCash Any other package if any one is using http://gnukhata.gnulinux.in/ . Though I never used it. -- With Regards, Gaurav Paliwal http://gauravpaliwal.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Monitor Broadband usage
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:22:45 +0530, Abhinav Sahai abhinav...@gmail.com wrote: snip Well, even though there are 5 laptops at my home, I still feel that its not possible to download 25 gbs in 20 days considering the fact that all of us staying are working and we do not download movies everyday. Is there a way i can find out the daily usage on each machine through a setup on a *single* computer? 1. Setup a Linux machine as the gateway using iptables masquerading 2. Add a USB wifi dongle to it to make it as a wifi access point. 3. Disable the wifi on your wifi router and connect via LAN your Linux machine to the wifi router. 4. Ask your family members to use your wifi dongle's access point to connect to the net. 5. Install vnstat on your Linux machine and you can monitor the total bandwidth (periodically). 6. Use iftop on your Linux machine to determine which user is consuming the most bandwidth at any given point of time (in realtime). Remember to press 'n' to disable name resolution, otherwise you'd see the most connections being established to your dns server. You can use a laptop with inbuilt wifi too instead of getting a USB wifi dongle and keep it On for the entire duration of your testing. If at night no body is using the net, then maybe you can put the laptop to standby. Regards Vivek Kapoor http://exain.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
