Maybe you read some of my posts on software raid and lvm, or maybe you have a spare pc lying around and want a box you can use as a small personal server and are wondering about some tips for running it with less hassle. I am sharing a few things that I have learnt about running a personal server (though some will apply to any Linux server or always-on machine) that make my life as a part-time admin easier. This is by no means an exhaustive list, nor necessarily the correct way to run a box, but it works well for me and so should be useful to others as well.
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I am surprised it has taken someone so long to try and merge the web and tv’s successfully (ignoring hobby projects like MythTv). I am slightly suprised it was Google, but given they own youtube maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised See the official announcement . . . → Read More: Google announces Google TV So while I am sat on the sofa, my wife is watching mathematics videos from http://mrbartonmaths.com/youtube.htm. There are some rather amusing and clever videos so have a look when you get a chance. Particularly clever are The Mathematics Love Song which attempts to explain love using group theory (which I vaguely remember from my degree) Amazing Maths trick that . . . → Read More: Amusing Mathematics videos I recently stumbled across Gobby: Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms. It looks really cool, and the realtime-editing would be very well suited to trying to draw up any form of document or source code . . . → Read More: Cross-platform realtime collaborative editing I have been playing with Google Wave for about a week, and while it is interesting I have not really had enough time with it to write up much here yet. If you are on Wave, you can find me as “anton.piatek” on Wave If you are not on Wave and want to have a play, I will . . . → Read More: Waving with Google I wrote a while ago about the speed of virgin broadband vs. Be but my internet has been feeling rather slow recently… So I decided to take another speed test. For reference the previous test got 9Mb/s download and 0.49Mb/s upload. The old speed wasn’t too bad, but still wasn’t as good as Be provided. Obviously this new . . . → Read More: Virgin broadband – not so fast! |
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