On 07-Aug-07, at 2:10 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
ah see, this is it.
a) tut! tut! kenneth, the event is no longer called freedel. it is
called freed.in.
freed.in is not a 'north event' it is a nation-wide event, with
participation from across india and even beyond our borders.
frankly i would
--- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
frankly i would be happier if it remained a 'north
event'. The
strength of the foss movement in India is in the
regions. There is
never going to be an all-india foss movement/event.
I feel that in
each region one or more regional events come up
Right. Sending goons with hockey sticks around to Niyam's house right
now to make him see the error of his ways and repent before it's too
late.
make that GNU/Hockey if you please.
on a side note, kenneth:
a) hope you're coming to freed.in?
b) hope you've pasted and promoted the banner
On 07-Aug-07, at 12:54 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
make that GNU/Hockey if you please.
ahh - correct spelling
on a side note, kenneth:
a) hope you're coming to freed.in?
would love to - but i am a libran cusp, so will not be able to make
it. But we will be sending a team
b) hope you've
a) hope you're coming to freed.in?
would love to - but i am a libran cusp, so will not be able to make
it. But we will be sending a team
hey! we'll celebrate your GNU/Birthday here in delhi, would be fun to
hang out with you and celebrate. how many years since you've gone gpl?
b)
On 8/6/07, Vikram Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Haa,haa I would love to give a small talk on how cheap mass storage can be
done with Linux and software raid (as I have done at home and work)
.Count me
in as long as the you don't expect a guru level of talk from me.
I am an enthu techie at
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On 06-08-07 10:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
did he agree? if not, you *are* starting a third front
GnuLinux = GNU/Linux
All the talk about 'FREEDOM' and we are not free to call it what we want
? If he has to 'sign off' on the name, isnt that
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On 03-08-07 7:05 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
did i read that right?
you mean 700GB, or 700TB, but surely not 700MB?
OOPS! , thats 700GB.
cheers.
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On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:33:43 +0530, Ankur Rohatgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 06-08-07 10:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
did he agree? if not, you *are* starting a third front
GnuLinux = GNU/Linux
All the talk about 'FREEDOM' and we are not free to call it what we
want ? If he has to
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 09:13, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 07-Aug-07, at 8:20 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
1. Easily recognisable
nope - it was rejected by all parties to the dispute as implying that
linux is a gnu project
2. Unambiguous
yes - claims linux as a gnu project
3. Clear as to
also, strange as this may sound, can i get a similar
buffalo here in india?
Yes, Buffalo NAS stations are available in India.
regards
VK
thanks for the info.
researching further, i stumbled across an article by BBC, which led me
to drobo, which led me to a cnet review, and at the
On 8/6/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06-Aug-07, at 1:42 AM, Linux Lingam wrote:
has anyone hacked this to work with gnulinux
there are two camps - Linux and GNU/Linux - thats enough, please dont
make a third front
there is no third.
about 3 years ago, i pointed out
On 06/08/07, Vikram Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Haa,haa I would love to give a small talk on how cheap mass storage can be
done with Linux and software raid (as I have done at home and work)
.Count me
in as long as the you don't expect a guru level of talk from me.
I am an enthu techie
Hey Guys,
Any particular reason for freed.in to be on friday-saturday instead
of saturday-sunday? I'd miss the first day :(
Parijat
On 8/6/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/08/07, Vikram Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Haa,haa I would love to give a small talk on how cheap
On 06-Aug-07, at 9:13 AM, Linux Lingam wrote:
there is no third.
about 3 years ago, i pointed out richard stallman during his visit to
delhi, that i use GnuLinux instead of GNU/linux as GNU/linux suffers
from a typographic problem with certain typesetting engines during
typesetting and
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
did i read that right?
you mean 700GB, or 700TB, but surely not 700MB?
also, strange as this may sound, can i get a similar
buffalo here in india?
Yes, Buffalo NAS stations are available in India.
regards
VK
Engineers normally have problem
On 03-Aug-07, at 3:20 PM, Vipul Mathur wrote:
just think: Is there no way I can replicate/reconstruct this data if
it is lost?
You've got to be kidding. How do you replicate/reconstruct thousands
of photos taken over years, carefully categorized and tagged. Videos
taken on family vacations
On 8/3/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this mania for backing up is much worse than the sin of not backing
up at all. Usually when you lose data that has not been backed up,
apart from the initial shock, it turns out to be a very good thing in
the long run. So before spending
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On 02-08-07 6:23 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
how much did that buffalo cost you?
what's your storage capacity?
Costed me $700 and since its a RAID 5 array i lose some storage and it
comes to about 700 MB. Plus really valuable data like kids videos also
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On 02-08-07 3:37 PM, vivek khurana wrote:
With a price tag close to a lakh, not that simple
though..
I dont know where you do your shopping, i got mine for $700 :).
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On 8/3/07, Ankur Rohatgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 02-08-07 6:23 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
how much did that buffalo cost you?
what's your storage capacity?
Costed me $700 and since its a RAID 5 array i lose some storage and it
comes to
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On 02-08-07 8:37 AM, vivek khurana wrote:
For home use RAID 1 is enough. Nothing complicated.
remember the KISS principle.
I keep it very simple and use a Buffalo terrastation gigabit nas for my
home storage needs. Its set for RAID 5.
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On 02-08-07 2:13 AM, Linux Lingam wrote:
www.sonos.com and you'll understand why people would need a wifi-NAS
at home. great link for ankur rohtagi. ;-)
Heheh, too slow my friend. I am an ex sonos user, i had it for about a
month and then i gave
06. last week i discovered some companies have
started shipping a
Network-Attached-Storage with built-in wi-fi. i
dunno if this is
available in india, and at what price. what do you
guys think?
/
hi,
Check out a fork off the m0n0wall (www.m0n0.ch/wall) project called FreeNAS
On 8/2/07, Ankur Rohatgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 02-08-07 8:37 AM, vivek khurana wrote:
For home use RAID 1 is enough. Nothing complicated.
remember the KISS principle.
I keep it very simple and use a Buffalo terrastation gigabit nas for
On 03-Aug-07, at 6:15 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote:
and as for other mail, everyone else backs it up, so I
just have to ask the relevant person for a copy when I want it.
economists call it free riding :)
this mania for backing up is much worse than the sin of not backing
up at all. Usually when
and as for other mail, everyone else backs it up, so I
just have to ask the relevant person for a copy when I want it.
economists call it free riding :)
Vikas
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On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
make a
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage.
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Linux Lingam wrote:
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are
individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing
sliced versions
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
make a software RAID array out of them.
Agreed. In fact I would suggest that you make the 500GB RAID 1
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage.
Take a harddrive of double or more capacity than your
total data and do a weekly rsync of all your data.
Simple :-)
If you tell us the layout for your data (or data
partition) we can write a script for you to automate
the backup.
thanks vivek.
i wonder if hardisks, especially when used
thanks tanveer for your response.
Gora
Isnt something like Amazon S3 more reliable, if the data is critical.
Its auotmatic using shell scripts and cron jobs.
Cost for such data would come to around 15$/month if your total
storage online is around 60GB
Thats around 600rs/month or around
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks vivek.
i wonder if hardisks, especially when used for such
heavy read-writes,
can last 10 years. i've seen my data cds have
actually lasted 10
years, but can't recall a single hard-disk that has.
As backups which is not accessed so
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Splurge on another Rs. 1.5K
for a good USB/IDE interface, and you have instant
access to the
stored data.
so you're saying i could use a usb2 hub, plug in
500GB hardisks
slapped into usb-casings connected to this hub, and
run a raid?
RAID
Vikram Ranade wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they have been
working really well for the past 2 years.
We did
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they have been
working really well for the past 2 years.
We did something similar at work with
good old slashy! lots of different viewpoints.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/184256
:-)
niyam
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On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:58 +0530, Kishore Bhargava wrote:
Vikram Ranade wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they
On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage.
gulp!
i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at freed.in Raiding the
kitchen: what's cooking in terabytes at
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:05 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage.
gulp!
i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at
freed.in
Quoting Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Erm, doesn't everyone? I have 1TB at home in a RAID-1 configuration.
i dont - the only data i cant afford to lose are my passwords which are backed
up on deadtrees and locked in a safe. I dont even back up mail any more. List
mail is archived anyway,
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb
of data per month?
dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the
data-files are
individually larger than 10gb (home video) and
cutting and storing
sliced versions across discs
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