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Fighting with BackupPC

I spent the better part of two hours fighting with the BackupPC backup service on my Linux server. The software itself is extremely powerful and a pretty good fit for what I want to do: backup multiple computers to one spot, then create CD archives. The problems I experienced stemed from what I [...]

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Fedora 8 to 9

Just like moving from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8, moving from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 was pretty simple. Simply following the Yum Upgrade Faq on the Fedora Project website, I had no problem with the move. I can’t say enough for Fedora’s ease of use.
I can’t believe that the latest version still [...]

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A Touch of Downtime

You may or may not have noticed the hour or so of downtime time this morning on our server. I had noticed that the server had been running for over 64 days (which is not unheard of with Linux, but when your talking about a PII 400 with about 370 MB of RAM, it’s [...]

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MediaTomb, PS3, and Me

Ever since my computer showed up as a media server on my PS3 (I had Rhapsody’s UPnP server running on my home machine), I’ve wanted to set up some type of media server to get music, photos, and videos to play on the PS3. I had put it off because some of the newer [...]

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Ending the hassle of mail

A little more than 5 years ago I registered this domain. That means that the email addresses attached to this domain have had five years to get into every spam list you can imagine. Needless to say, we get a lot of spam on those email addresses. Now that my wife and [...]

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