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Linux and large hard drives

Posted on June 30, 2007June 19, 2008 by wally

I just finished rebuilding the backup server, and I discovered something new about Linux which I didn’t know (although I did assume it was possible). I’d tried googling for the answer to this question without avail, so I’ve blogged it here to hopefully answer the question for someone else in my same situation. The problem […]

Autopsy

Posted on June 29, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

I just had the enjoyment of performing an autopsy on our backup server, arguably the most important machine on the network, responsible for the retreival and archiving of the filesystems from all the other servers. As I opened the case it was immediately obvious what had happened, an intruder had broken in and hacked the […]

Window Manager for Tablet users

Posted on May 31, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

Having since bought my shiney new Wacom 2 tablet (which incidently works perfectly under XOrg, Ubuntu has it configured out of the box) I’ve started to wonder if there’s more use for it than just graphics editing. If you’ve never used a graphics tablet before, I encourage you to do so at some point. Once […]

Ubuntu Server on 386 hardware

Posted on May 26, 2007 by wally

I’m blogging this in the hope that I might get more Google coverage for the solution to a problem I hit when trying to setup Ubuntu server on an older machine down the church. I originally posted the solution to the official Ubuntu forums, and it’s had a few replies saying it worked and was […]

Vista and large networks

Posted on May 1, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

Yesterday I had the laughs of all laughs. As anyone who knows me personally will know, I’ve recently been “trying out” Microsoft Windows Vista (yes, that you did read that correctly.) I’d rather be openminded than closed, primarily because I hate it when people tell me how rubbish non-Microsoft software is when they’ve never even […]

MX backup with Courier-MTA

Posted on April 14, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

After having had to take down hedwig a fair few hours over the last week (if you didn’t know, Debian has made a new stable release, and amazingly there’s no pigs flying!) while it under went some fairly heavy software updates. During this time Courier, the MTA we use was back logged with a fair […]