I'm seeking advice on external hard drives for Linux system backup
For 10 years, I've been backing up my home systems to an external hard
drive using rsync, and rotating it in out of a safety deposit box each
month. This setup has worked great, and some of these disks operated
without error
I have one on order. Personally I think 7in is an ideal tablet size for
most of the stuff done on a tablet. If I really need to work then I want a
true laptop. If I'm just browsing the web or watching videos then the
lighter 7 in seems the way to go. A 4in screen is still to small for god
web
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:06:33AM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote:
I'm seeking advice on external hard drives for Linux system backup
My questions are:
1. Are there ANY reliable, quiet, external drives of size = 3TB today,
that fit into a safety deposit box (i.e., no RAID appliances)
For years I carried a Frankline Dayplanner. 8.5x5.5 pages. But 1.5 thick.
I went with me everywhere, like a good dayplanner should.
The new small netbooks are in the same style (but my fat fingers don't do the
little keypads on them or even phones well).
In many ways the kendal/Google pad are
While visiting Hong Kong in April I bought a Samsung Galaxy 7.7 wifi only
tablet. I was really impressed with the crisp screen, the sleek and
slender design and the low weight. I couldn't resist.
The form factor, as well as the custom Galaxy case, are perfect for me and
my needs. I use it for
Chris O'Connell wrote:
I've never once said I wish this device were
bigger!
The keyboard on an Ipad is certainly nicer for being bigger, but last
night I was filling in a web form on the Ipad 2 and the keyboard was in
the way!, and the only way I could figure out how to get rid of it was
On 7/10/2012 8:44 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
The form-factor question is a real one. I don't quite understand the
Ipad size, yet they are wildly successful.
That's because you're not looking at iPad for what it is. You see it as
a stripped-down computer. It isn't. It's a content delivery
I have only used USB2, but if I had esata available, I think it would
be worth using. In my situation, speed isn't always needed,
especially since all but local backups are over a G wifi network.
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Tom Metro wrote:
Doug wrote:
Our carrier is T-Mobile, using their pay-as-you-go, no data plan.
... In a year's time, we pay T-Mobile $400 for all our minutes
(4x1000).
If you don't use many voice minutes you can actually get by for as
little as $100 per *year* per phone with T-Mobile.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Daniel Barrett
dbarr...@blazemonger.com wrote:
In the past year or two, however, all of the large external HD's I've tried
(3TB) develop errors or die within the first year. Every couple months, I
view a backup log in the morning and see stuff like:
EXT4-fs
Richard Pieri wrote:
A smaller screen would compromise that enjoyment. A 7 tablet is all
compromise. Apple doesn't do compromise on the user-facing stuff.
That is why it will be fun watching Apple watch the Nexus 7 be
successful and take market share as Apple fights with the Ghost of Steve
On 7/10/2012 11:32 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
That is why it will be fun watching Apple watch the Nexus 7 be
successful and take market share as Apple fights with the Ghost of
Steve Jobs over joining in.
That's what many experts are saying. I for one don't believe it. Apple
doesn't need to care
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:58:54 -0400
Steve Harris vshar...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you actually done this (activated/de-activated the 1-day data
plan)? How exactly is it done?
It can be done through My T-Mobile https://my.t-mobile.com/, or through
the phone's web browser. In the case of a
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On 7/10/2012 12:07 PM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
There are reports like Bloomberg's of a forthcoming smaller Apple
tablet:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-03/here-comes-nexus-7-nightmare-the-ipad-mini.html
I'm not convinced. There are lots of things that can be done with 8
LCD panels.
On 7/10/2012 10:58 AM, Steve Harris wrote:
In order to maintain gold status (where minutes are valid for a
year) you need to buy only enough minutes to put your total over 1000.
For example, if you have 700 minutes in your pile, then you only
need to purchase 300 minutes ($30) and all 1000
On 7/10/2012 12:12 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
The fact that Google put their name on a 7 tablet says one thing:
Google is afraid to go head to head with Apple. If Google wanted an iPad
killer then we'd be looking at Nexus 10 at $279. But that's not what we
have; we have yet another 7 tablet. The
Our company's servers are moving from the Boston facility to IBM's
facilities, and we will have to replace NIS with LDAP. We don't get to
vote, NIS will be replaced.
Our Boston servers maintain their own NIS and are independent of
corporate NIS. but all users have a corresponding corporate linux
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:23:24 -0400
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey m...@buttery.org wrote:
On 7/10/2012 10:58 AM, Steve Harris wrote:
In order to maintain gold status (where minutes are valid for a
year) you need to buy only enough minutes to put your total over
1000. For example, if you have 700
On 7/10/2012 2:53 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I don't know LDAP that well so I am looking for an LDAP solution that
will permit certain users to use certain systems.
I use PAM.
The way I do it is to create an LDAP group for each role. Each limited
access node gets a file /etc/login.groups with
On 7/10/2012 3:39 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote:
Actually, you're both correct. When the due date is coming up, you can
add as little as $10.00 to it and all of the minutes will be valid for
an additional year, this is provided you have previously added at least
$100 in refills to the
Here's an tangential thought on no-data-plan phones: I've notice my
phone shows constant data activity on 3G when away from WiFi, even when
it has no active data plan (I haven't taken any steps to explicitly shut
down data in the OS).
There is a partially working data link, as I can reach
On 7/10/2012 4:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
You'd think with the way carriers are more than willing to meddle with
the internals of Android that they'd have put in some controls to
completely shut down the data modem if there isn't an active data plan.
The telcos assume -- correctly -- that
Steve Harris wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
The T-Mobile pay-per-minute plan has no data, but interestingly you can
switch to a pay-per-day plan at any time from the handset.
Have you actually done this (activated/de-activated the 1-day data
plan)?
Yes. At least once. As far as I know it worked
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
The detail that was wrong in the other post was that there is no need to
bring the account back up to the $100 level to keep your status. In
fact, you never have to have had a $100 balance at any given time, just
spend at least $100 over time.
The confusion
Most of you probably heard this one.
Mozilla does the unthinkable
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/mozilla-does-the-unthinkable/3719
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Dan,
This information may be dated, but, back in 2009, I was running a
linux server on Linode. At that time, I was using Amazon’s Elastic
Cloud, EC2 and S3 to provide a really inexpensive backup to my data
files. I used an Ubuntu instance in EC2 to provide and support a
rsync mirror to my data
On 7/10/2012 8:06 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
1. Are there ANY reliable, quiet, external drives of size = 3TB today,
that fit into a safety deposit box (i.e., no RAID appliances) and work with
Linux?
No. Disk drives are mechanical devices. Mechanical devices fail. Take
it as read that the
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/10/2012 2:46 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
3. Who says that won't be Google's next product?
I say it.
I mentioned Palm previously. What really killed Palm was the separation of
software and hardware
I asked:
Are there ANY reliable, quiet, external drives of size = 3TB today...?
Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
No. Disk drives are mechanical devices. Mechanical devices fail. Take
it as read that the drives you use for backups will fail, data will be
damaged, and you cannot
On 7/10/2012 9:19 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
You know that Google just completed their acquisition of Motorola in
late May of this year? And Google already builds (or at least
designs) their own servers and networking hardware. This would seem
to at least hold out the possibility of Google doing
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett
I'm seeking advice on external hard drives for Linux system backup
For a few years, I've been doing similar stuff. I'm using zfs instead of
rsync, but same
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/10/2012 9:19 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
It's not just design. It's understanding the fickle nature of the consumer
marketplace. Neither Google nor Motorola Mobility grok that the way Apple
does, and putting the
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