My unibody MacBook Pro has seemed to increase a few degrees fahrenheit every couple of days or so for a few weeks now. The machine becomes sluggish and very noisy and hot to the touch. Having some down-time this evening with the temp around 190F with both fans spinning at 6200 RPM, I decided to…
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Today I have an internal Dell RD1000 drive for backup services with 1TB removable cartridges. Here is my process for getting the device up under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server and running the first backup. Get the partition table of your device, (this particular device was located @ /dev/sda): nmino@localhost:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda:…
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These are the steps I take to install Webmin on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Servers that I deploy. (Also works on 10.10 Server and Desktop) Download the Webmin package: nmino@ubuntu:~$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb –2013-01-07 09:04:11– http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net… 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Found Location: http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb [following] –2013-01-07 09:04:11– http://superb-dca3.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.610/webmin_1.610_all.deb…
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I just migrated a client from a peer-to-peer Windows network to an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS/SaMBa file-server. Moving the data was the simplest, yet most time-consuming part of the project. Time consuming in that this client has several hundred GB of data to be copied. My first step was to mount the Windows share in the…
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