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The Linux Chronicles – WD MyBook NAS Storage
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With just a little over a TB of storage on-hand, things were getting kinda tight (who’da thunk that 5 years ago?) so I decided to buy some storage. To reduce the number of connections to my computer, this time I wanted Network Atached Storage. NAS is really a small computer and drive combo [...]
Posted by neonjohn on December 22nd, 2009 under Computing | Comment now »
The Linux Chronicles – One Year Anniversary
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Can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve posted. I’ve been very busy on my induction heater project plus I’ve had the mother of all writer’s block. Plus, Ubuntu has simply worked so I haven’t had much to write about. Anyway….
I’m approaching my one year anniversary of my conversion to Linux after [...]
The Linux Chronicles – Making Backups
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This post is about backing up. More specifically, backing up in a way that is usable. That is, that precludes your having to do a full re-install if something happens to your disk.
In the linux world there are two kinds of backups:
File oriented
Partition oriented
File oriented backup simply means that you copy all your [...]
Posted by neonjohn on March 2nd, 2009 under Computing | 1 Comment »
The Linux Chronicles – Blue Smoke and ….
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….agony.
So there I am on Monday night, reading Craig’s List and minding my own business when I hear a little pop from my laptop, my venerable 7 year old Dell Inspiron. Simultaneously, the screen goes blank and a wisp of magic blue smoke leaks out. Damn! My machine has committed suicide. [...]
