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October 15th, 2008 ··· andarius
I find my self in a small predicament. I have a network share on my server via NFS. This is where I store all my media such as anime and music so I can get to it from any of my computers. The slight catch is the kid uses Windows XP (games, go figure) so SFU (Services For Unix) are required to access NFS. This turns out to be a bit slow and clunky and can hang from time to time. The solution will be using Samba to share the same directory via CIFS.
I wanted to give all those out there with less of a $clue a quick and dirty. I am not going to get into the details of the config, just touch on getting Samba up and running fast and open the window for easy config.
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May 11th, 2008 ··· andarius
On the second of May Slackware 12.1 was released. While I no longer run Slackware on my desktop system it still lives on my server machine. So an upgrade was in order of course.
While I don’t really favor upgrades it is an upgrade of versions. To prep a full copy of /etc, /root, and /var was made to the /home partition. After that I did a clean install on while leaving the home partition untouched. Once that was done it was rather simple to restore what I needed from the backup location and photon was back in service rather quickly. Would have been quicker had I not stopped to eat chow and watch a movie but oh well. I still had all services back on line in less time than a normal install of Windows.
I would not say there are any major upgrades that went down. Then again I have not had time to get under the hood and play around. At any rate it is up and running and I am sure it will be as stable as 12.0 which ran rock solid from the day I booted photon up in place till I shut photon down for the upgrade. A run of 90 days plus a little.
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January 13th, 2008 ··· andarius
I thought I had written something up on this before but am unable to find it. Just in case here it is again.
My move to CRUX was in the coming for some time. I was highly motivated to move to another distribution a little bit back when dealing with eegor. CRUX was recommended by a good guy in ##slackware (thrice’) on freenode among other channels.
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December 18th, 2007 ··· andarius
I have been looking to try out another distribution as I have started having issues with the one I use now. Granted they are all personal but even a personal issue is an issue. Upon the recommendation from a friend in an IRC channel I frequent I looked into CRUX. After a good bit of reading I have set up a test system to give it a dry run. So far I am very pleased. I plan to run the test system till Friday. If all goes well move out Slackware, there will be a new resident on the desktop.
More detail will follow should I make the switch.
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October 22nd, 2007 ··· andarius
A simple for used to verify data integrity is md5sums. You can think of an md5sum as a hash fingerprint of a file. Change a file and the md5sum will change. It is very common for files one downloads from the Internet to have an md5sum you can use to check the file when you are done. A simple example would be to verify the data of say your Slackware install CDs, as the md5sum for each file is included on the CD.
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