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ZFS, Boot Zones and data loss
Note to Self: One must remember not to accidently pull the power cord out of your OpenSolaris server. Somewhere between the sudden power down, and booting into different Boot Zones my MySQL database has lost records and the Apache HTTP … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, General IT issues, MySQL, RDBMS
Tagged Apache, Data Loss, OpenSolaris, ZFS
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Legacy Unix always works
Great, I now have a printer that works, but not due to any fancy new features, and also not due to my brilliance, though it should have. But again I am reminded (via Google) to remember the one thing that … Continue reading
Webmin back door
NOTE: Do not accidently drop your own permissions to su to root. {Unless you happen to remember to have Webmin running. } This weekend while trying to get CUPS to print on my DYI-Server I managed to grant myself ‘CUPS … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, General IT issues, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Psychology, Windows
Tagged Linux, OpenSolaris, Webmin
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A different thing in a real OS.
Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, General IT issues, History, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, monopolies, Windows
Tagged Ekiga, OpenSolaris, Time Machine, ZFS
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No good thing goes unpunished
I just got the home server running on a dynamic dns server, and sure enough, we are already getting spam comments on the wordpress software I installed there. I knew our server wasn’t going to to go unnoticed when both … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, DIY server, General IT issues, Internet, Spam, telecommunications
Tagged Blog Spam, OpenSolaris, Search, WordPress
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Testing the Home server
If you are reading this, and are interested is my OpenSolaris server click here.
The price of a Green PC server.
I keep calling this DYI project a server, which it is currently doing, Samba server, MySQL server, Apache server FTP server. But beyond this it’s also a desktop server with all the features of your average desktop PC. 2GB of … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, Economy, Education, General IT issues, Maker
Tagged DYI, Elara, Maker, OpenSolaris
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Nature Hates a Vacuum
Yesterday I thought I’d screwed up my USB ports and that would require a motherboard replacement. But in IT a mystery is unacceptable! So when a bit of fiddling and a reboot made the the USB (and attached mouse) revive, … Continue reading
Missed A Bullet
I missed a bullet today, while unplugging a usb powered portable drive from my new server I hung the USB ports on OpenSolaris, I though I could have proceeded, the mouse was on a USB port so I was mouseless. … Continue reading
Size doesn’t matter, in IT
In the previous post I mentioned that the Intel Atom 330 D945GCLF2 motherboard looks lost in the Minuet 350 case; and even the case is not very large as seen here compaired to a Dell 3100 case and there is … Continue reading
Forgotten Rule of IT!
If you happen to read my Blog, you will know that I’ve started a project to build a home server that more or less mimics the sort of server I use at the office. And while I’ve have had the … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, General IT issues, Linux
Tagged Atom, D945GCLF2, Intel, OpenSolaris
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Personal IT server Simulator
Posted in DIY server, Energy, General IT issues, Linux, MySQL, RDBMS
Tagged Intel Atom, OpenSolaris
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