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The updates

Posted on August 13, 2007 by wally

So I promised some updates… well here goes. I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working through a rather (and increasingly) large list of “to-dos” down the church, everything from replacing maintained light strips to cleaning the windows, and not forgetting producing hard backups of all the server filesystems. It’s good fun to do, […]

Covie Camp

Posted on July 27, 2007 by wally

Been an interesting one this year… I’ll blog more later 😉 Lets just say 60+mph winds are not fun when camping.

Updates

Posted on July 16, 2007 by wally

For anyone following this blog (is there anyone? lol), the moving of the Debian install worked without hitches (other than those covered in the blog), I did have to turn off DMA access to the replacement HD however, but I think that was purely because it was a really old school drive. The Squid proxy […]

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 […]

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 […]