Re: [Dorset] New member
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 10:01:42 p.lane wrote: On 04/07/2012 09:45, Tim wrote: On 03/07/12 20:45, Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. Regards Graeme Hi Graema, Welcome to Dlug A lot will depend on the type of NAS you are after, I have a single Disk NAS from Lacie which has a linux based OS but is aimed really at the windows market. I have not tried or even know if it is possible to hack the OS. I can mount it on my linux box and it works and have mounted it on windows boxes so other in the family can access it. I normally back this up on a monthly basis via rsync, it was backed up more regularly at one stage but the data is not added to, changed or deleted that frequently at the moment so there no need for more regular backups. If you are looking at a multi disk nas, then you could try building one to suit, I looked at doing similar a while ago and kept this link as the basis of how I would go about it http://matthewlai.ca/blog/?p=968 I have no idea if it is any good in real life Hope it helps Tim Hi. I'm a new member myself. Linksys, Buffalo DNS all sell good, reasonably priced Linux comapatible NAS devices. It all comes down to how much you need to store, whether you want to mirror 2 or 4 or 8 drives what yuo know about RAID how much you can afford. Don't consider DROBO.nice but slow is a type of X-RAID so a proprietary format even tho they say LINUX compatible, I know they are not LINUX friendly. BTW all, being a sys admin and having worked with a number of large scale RAID detups - EMC Netapps etc Sun DiskSuite, if anyone is interested, I'll post a RAID fyi. Phil. Hi Graeme, welcome to Dlug. I have to ask why you think you need a ready built NAS as opposed to a File Server. You can add lots a disks to an existing linux system, have fun configuring linux raid and even use the file server for other things (a normal desktop perhaps) and then export the raid filesystems to your LAN with Samba and NFS and you wouldnt know the difference. I bought a cheap NAS once and thanks to its complete lack of expansion prospects ended up chucking it away and adding raid to my linux file server which now has some multi-terabyte shared file-systems. Regards Andy -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] New member
On Tuesday 03 Jul 2012 20:45:27 Graeme Gemmill wrote: I have just found this LUG, so this is an introductory message. I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for several years, and read and occasionally contribute to the alt.os.linux.mandriva news group. Living in Litton Welcome to DLUG Graeme. Cheney, I intend to attend the next meeting held in Dorchester to meet other Linux users. This may be a bit early to be asking for Hmm. Although the website lists Dorchester as a venue, we haven't actually met there for a while, due to lack of members near enough to constitute a quorum! Perhaps it's time for another poll to see who might attend? advice/recommendations, but I am interested in implementing a Linux-based NAS to provide additional data security on my home network accessible from Mandriva and Windows OSs. I have a Netgear Stora: http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/storage/consumer/default.aspx which is cheap and cheerful. It is adequate for my needs, but (as the yanks would say), your mileage may vary. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-08-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Bits from Pub Meet Last Night.
Thanks to both Ralph and Paul.
Up-date on my print server problems are solved!
Paul, your idea to connect the print server (PS) to the laptop direct
was the way; but I'd tried early this morning and failed, tried several
other ideas on the theme, all failed. Finally this evening a friend who
knew more about networking than I came round and had the PS access
within 10 mins!! Guess my reaction after 4 days of trying!
Solved by connecting the laptop to the gigabit ethernet switch and the
PS to same, the switch was isolated from the network. Set laptop to
192.168.2.0 which gave access to PS who's default address was
192.168.2.2; change IP to 192.168.0.10, disconnected all cables,
reconnected PS to network, all OK. Now both LJ 6P and HP colour printer
work without interfering with each other.
Made a note of above for future reference.
I obviously got several small things wrong at different times, it needed
a fresh look.
*C A Wills*
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On 04/07/12 17:29, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
I think the musical chairs were just to tax me... Clockwise from above,
Terry, Nigel, Paul, Charles, Clive, me, James, and Tim.
Clive, this may help with configuring your laptop's Ethernet interface
to temporarily have a static 192.168.2.* IP address so it can then talk
to your directly connected print-server supposedly on that network.
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/network-configuration.html
Google's Snappy compressor for 64-bit machines that don't penalise
unaligned 64-bit word accesses, mentioned as part of LevelDB, their
log-structured DB that's now embedded in WebKit.
https://plus.google.com/115649437518703495227/posts/fRwDTMSa1to
D. J. Bernstein's cdb database for read-only key-value stores up to 4GiB
needs normally two disk accesses for a key that exists.
http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Some bits of Amazon use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_deployment. It avoids the build
up of a big bang of updates being released at once followed by
reluctance to roll the whole lot back because of problems with one small
part.
The early entries in the Go repository. expand all, note the author,
guess the language, and then click b66d0bf8da3e›, ... for the
sequence.
https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?name=f6182e5abf5er=f6182e5abf5eb0c762dddbb18f8854b7e350eaeb
Google's avoidance, this time, of the leap second problem.
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html
Google Production Time is available over ntp at time{1..4}.google.com.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182970
How the demand for fast Javascript has driven speed improvements.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php?go=onv8=onclojure=onlua=onyarv=onpython3=oncalc=chart
Ross Williams's patent on finding points to split data into chunks such
that the chunks may be identical; data de-duplication.
http://www.google.com/patents/US5990810
The GNU Xnee X protocol record and replay; can be useful for testing.
http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/
Clojure, a Lisp-dialect targetting the Java VM...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure
...as distinct from Google's Closure, used in, amongst other things,
Google+. https://developers.google.com/closure/
http://anyasq.com/79-im-a-technical-lead-on-the-google+-team
Joel Webber, recent ex-Googler where he had worked on GWT and Dart,
links to a Google I/O video on Web Components suggesting a better way to
structure dynamic web pages making use of the hidden DOM already in the
browser.
https://plus.google.com/11598146968769323/posts/G1do6pkvxB3
Cheers, Ralph.
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