> On 16-02-28 09:10 PM, Bruce Harding wrote:
>>
>> The home server houses a photo gallery with 13000 pictures and a blog.
>> Should the number of files have any bearing on the choice of backup?
Your choice in backup should be based on ease of use and reliability
first. Ease of use so that you use
> On 16/01/11, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> normally, if i was interested in longevity, i'd put the *source* for
>> all my builds on the SSD, and leave the generation of build artifacts
>> on the regular drive. but at this point, i don't really care.
Given the guesstimates in this article you
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_1047item_id=050695
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_1047item_id=063780
both for actual use and experimentation.
If I don't
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
i've settled on a
couple decent tp-link routers these days
which ones?
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote:
what i'm looking at is a case of fine wine and spirits, so we're
talking several hundred dollars worth of stuff. at that price,
i'm fine driving down and back. :-)
rday
ah. wait a minute. you will be hammered
Sounds like a bad power supply.
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.comwrote:
Every now and again, my computer freezes. Nothing works. Then, when I
reboot, it freezes during BIOS, so it can't be a software issue.
I ran a memory check; everything's OK. I
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Jean-Francois Messier j...@messier.ca wrote:
Here's my problem: I have serveral Ubuntu-based computers (Desktop
edition, not server), and those are virtual ones, running on a remote
box.
How remote? Local lan, across town over a fast interconnect, or the
I had the commercial NX working for a demo with Ubuntu 12.04. I had to do
something to force the 2d fall back mode. Unfortunately I deleted that VM
and can't remember what I did.
I would recommend VNC. It works well enough over a LAN. I have used the
vnc4server package in the past with good
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Charles E. Nadeau charles.nad...@gmail.com
wrote:
Would it be possible to install Precise, from a DVD, on top of the actual
Maverick install while preserving the content of /home, /etc and /var/log?
i.e. without using do-release-upgrade. Can I avoid another
oops, forgot the list.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:58 PM, George Standish
george.stand...@ncf.ca wrote:
I would highly recommend the abcde (A Better CD Encoder) script. You can rip
to multiple formats at the same time, so FLAC + a lossy format.
I also recommend abcde. It just works. It is
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
i think we've beaten this to death, and there is no easy way
to do it that i just missed. thanks for all the pointers.
I'm not dead yet...
If this is a case of ease of use during development have a look at the
I have a guruplug server plus. It looks like it was replaced with the
DreamPlug
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-54-dreamplug-devkit.aspx
other options:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-products.aspx
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Spencer Cheng sch...@aotera.org
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Dumitru Ciobanu
ciobanu.dumi...@gmail.com wrote:
Now going over Stephen's suggestion that users are mapped to the wrong
field, well I'm not sure which field should they be setup to; I
thought the username is the one that matters but I guess I could be
wrong.
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Dumitru Ciobanu
ciobanu.dumi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a working ldap authentication using Active Directory as the
ldap server (not my choice but ...).
On the linux side do you have the AD fields mapped properly to the
ldap fields? IIRC if you are
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Brett Delmage
brett.delm...@twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote:
I expect an i7 linux workstation I have could keep up with the web
requests.
You are focused on the wrong problem. A netbook would likely handle
the traffic you outlined.
So I'm wondering what it would
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Charles Nadeau charles.nad...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible to have an AMD and an Nvidia video cards simultaneously in
the same machine?
It shouldn't be a problem. The only issue is the xorg.conf file as
both proprietary drivers will try to rewrite it.
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:43:42AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
slowly getting unpacked in my market area condo so it's time to
figure out where the important stuff is in the area. as in, where's a
good place to buy a honking big external drive to which i can start
ripping all of my
On 11-03-10 08:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day:
... asked about ripping many CDs.
I ripped my small collection of about 100 CD a few years back. I encoded
everything into flac. I used the very excellent command line tool
abcde. It automagically pulled the CD information from the internet
giving me a
On 11-01-30 09:47 PM, Paul B. wrote:
I've been waiting for the ARM revolution to hit my home, and I'm now
wondering if it's here.
The ARM revolution is here, but it is not much of a revolution. There
are many black box consumer products with ARM (and MIPS). Many of these
you can jam Linux on.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:50:58PM -0500, Charles Nadeau wrote:
Since then, everytime the computer reboot,s the order of the drives changes
making the use of my RAID array very difficult.
I didn't think that the software raid code cares what the drive names
are. The array will be assembled
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:48:45PM -0500, Stephen Gregory wrote:
for free: one 20 CRT monitor.
the monitor has gone to a good home :)
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for free: one 20 CRT monitor.
It is an HP P1230 professional monitor with excellent colour and
flat screen (flat crt, not lcd). It will display up to 2048 x
1536 at 85Hz. It is an aperture grill type crt. It has two vga inputs,
and was manufactures Feb 2004. The monitor weights 30kg / 65lbs and
Mode: Infrastructure
MTU: Automatic
Security: WEP
Is there any reason you aren't using WPA2? WEP is effectively useless.
Key type: Hex or Ascii (*_not_* a passphrase)
Key: 26 decimal digits
WEP keys can be tricky. One configuration may be expecting a 13 char
string. Another may be
To sort and filter incomming email I currently use Exim filter rules
in an Exim specific .forward file. For various reasons I am switching
from Exim to Postfix. What is my best option for email filtering with
Postfix? Should I convert my rules to procmail, or is there something
better?
Should I
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:55:04PM -0400, piper.guy1 wrote:
Now, as a newbie to security, what's my risk exposure?
The risk is similar to that of a passphrase: if an attacker can access
the ssl key file they can decrypt the traffic, and authenticate to the
server.
A certificate does have an
Prof. John C Nash wrote:
All the partitions were visible in Disk Management in Windows 7. The
issue is that there are 4 primary partitions, therefore no slot for
putting in any other OS.
Linux does not need a primary partition.
what is on the 30GB logical partition? I would be tempted to
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:37:11AM -0500, Brian Barber wrote:
Good morning, all. I am in desperate need of a 100mbps hub (i.e. not
a switch) for work.
I am guessing you need to sniff some network traffic. You can easily
make a network tap with a linux computer stuffed with network
cards. Don't
William Case wrote:
I have looked at the issue and
understand what both RAID and LVM are. They seem like a PIA; an extra
complication, I don't need on my small system.
I don't think either is hard to work with. A few extra questions at
install time and that is about it.
They main
William Case wrote:
I guess I overlooked this site because of its name,
nsa.gov/research
The NSA is/was one of the primary SElinux backers. Besides the
responsibility for illegally spying on Americans, the NSA is also
responsible for protecting Americans from being spied on.
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:14:14PM -0400, Eric Brackenbury wrote:
So are machines with large RAM and no swap
partition more secure then?
Logic says it should be BUT! there can always be a but cant there, who
knows if there is one in this case?
It might be more secure from one perspective.
John C Nash wrote:
#!/bin/bash
# v -- view contents of encrypted text file
# first argument is name of file
# sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=500k,nr_inodes=200,mode=0700 tmpfs
/home/john/tspace
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=500k,nr_inodes=200 tmpfs /home/john/tspace
tpw=`date` # Use
Does any one have any experience maintaining custom kernels in Debian?
I have a little ALIX box with the AMD Geode processor. I will building
a customized kernel image with the kernel-package tools
(make-kpkg). Which seems easy enough. I want to be sure that I build a
new kernel whenever Debian
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:06:13AM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote:
Name: www.adox.de
Address: 217.160.28.134
Naturaly the browser just gets a error page if it give it the IP address
Try adding the following line to /etc/hosts
217.160.28.134 www.adox.de
That should allow you
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:16:22PM -0500, milan wrote:
I am trying to set up a proxy server that does the following
1. One class of authorized users who have unrestricted access to the
Internet.
2. A second class of users who are denied access to the Internet, except
for a
It just works.
I am getting about 2100 kbit/s down and 350 kbit/s up. Latency to
TekSavvy in Toronto is 140ms (which is high).
I have Rogers Mobile High Speed usb device from work. It is a Novatel
Wireless MC950D HSUPA Modem. From my research I expected I would have
to do all sorts of trickery
John C Nash wrote:
I've made a few charitable donations and got e-receipts as pdf files.
Some of these are locked. They open in Acrobat reader (I've got it
installed on my Eee 900), but the document reader (evince) asks for a
password.
You might be able to open the documents with pdf2ps
$
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:30:37AM -0400, John C Nash wrote:
use external packs or adapters. And the Asus 900 uses 12V in. Canadian
Tire here we come.
Be careful using 12V batteries. The Asus may be expecting a regulated
(stable) 12V input. Batteries are unregulated power supplies. In
Richard Cook wrote:
After banging my head on the desktop trying to get the diskless nodes to
boot off the server I have finally admitting defeat and am calling for
help!
Do the nodes support PXE boot?
Earlier this year I setup diskless booting on Debian. If you google
debian pxe boot you
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