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  1. No. But I mounted the remote filesystem over SSH as root.. So just as bad, if not, worse.
  2. Woow. Okay, using "find", then piping that and greping for "passwd", i noticed a /etc directory inside the boot folder. Is there meant to be one there? Maybe an accidental swipe of the touchpad and I dragged it into the boot folder.. Fingers crossed..
  3. It's just gone. I used SSHFS to mount my arch partition. I decided the regenerate my SSH keys so I wouldnt have to provide a password whenever logging in. I deleted the id_rsa files using Thunar. Next thing i know, the /etc folder is totally gone, nowhere to be seen. I check the Thunar wastebucket, and its not there either.. Ideas? I'm asking this, but know the answer anyways. Wipe, reinstall, and learn from it. Okay. Any advice for my future install? Il start it tomorrow, too tired tonight. I've read that seperate partitions for both /etc and /home is good. My last setup was just swap and the arch install, making backups daunting as hell.
  4. dr0p, how'd you manage the transparent urxvt terminal? I had a method, involving multiple scripts and trannset, but it stopped working after I started using urxvt as a daemon.
  5. Thanks VaKo for hinting at Top. Just used it over SSH, and instantly found my bottleneck - RAM. Its constantly swapping, as the 128 megs of DDR loveliness just arent enough. I'll order that 1GB DDR that i found, nice and cheap at £10. That should ease things up a little. Might save up to replace OldBetty though. Definately looking into using that Atom 330 set you linked me to. Thanks.
  6. Haha. But that would be insurance fraud, VaKo. You dont want me to commit insurance fraud, do you? ;). Well, when the moneys tight, you gotta make the most out of the stuff you have.
  7. Score man! That sounds an ace idea! And here i was, about to shell out £130 for a barebones AMD Sempron. Silly me. Ehm, its a Dell Latitude C640
  8. Wow, thanks for the fast reply! Well the latitude laptop is rocking a 1.8Ghz P4 mobile, with a small 30GB HD (hence wanting a file server). It runs pretty well, even if it is single core. The server is a little rough.. Its a 667Mhz Intel Celeron, with a 120GB IDE drive, capped at ATA66 thanks to the motherboard. I was going to shove in another 80GB drive, but its old and has taken a few knocks in it's time. Last time I checked it wasnt working. Everything was corrupt, and formatting didnt help. The reason why I haven't saved up to splash the cash on a cheap barebones kit is because this was originally just a project, which I've now grown pretty close to :)
  9. I've turned a friends old PC into an Arch Linux server, mainly a file and SSH server, messing a little with XAMPP as I'm wanting to learn some PHP. Anyways, everyone likes to improve their machines. As do I. Since I'm a bit of a noob, I'm not sure about what speeds I should be getting with my setup, so I'm going to outline my setup and some speeds, and hopefully I'll get some replies from more experienced people, maybe with tips on making things faster. My main rig is an old Dell Latitude, with a 54mbps miniPCI wireless card. This SSHs into the old PC I got from a friend. It's running Arch Linux, with SSHd and vsftpd running, aswell as MPD for some music loveliness. The server has an Edimax band N wireless PCI card. The original driver I had installed from the Arch repo refused to work on Band N, so I downloaded and installed the newest driver straight from the Ralink website. "iwconfig ra0" shows that the bitrate is around 130mbps on the server, and 54mbps on the laptop. I ran iperf, connecting the laptop to the server, to get some real world results. Heres the output - When I download files from the server to my laptop, now (after updating the driver) im getting about 2MB/s. Uploads are about 1MB/s. Any ideas? I recieved the server with only 128MB RAM. It's still only got 128. Im in the process of buying 1GB for it. Will this increase speeds at all? How can I increase these speeds, in a nice budget-friendly way? Any ideas? Thanks.
  10. Holy shit. Someone needs to put the thesaurus down, and chill the fuck out. I saw this the other day, and thought "Ooh, fuck yeah!". Lian Li have a case specifically made for the X360. Looks damn sweet too. Lian Li Xbox 360 Case You can check the videos on Youtube comparing the noise difference. Its actually astounding. And for once, the X360 doesnt sound like its stuggling to do everything. It just sounds to effortless. EDIT: Aw shit hot! 100th post. Boooom!
  11. Maybe he viewed the page whilest/just after it was hacked. So he posted a warning. Maybe they defaced the page with a shitload of smileys.. Total guess..
  12. Hex love Vako... *looks around innocently* Well I really only pirate the stuff that I find useful, and that I can't afford. Sometimes I pirate albums. If theyre good, I'll buy 'em :). If not, I'll stop seeding, and delete them - no real use for them. Software I dont really pirate to be honest. Maybe it's because I'm a slag for Arch Linux just now, so I grab stuff from repositories. Movies I do pirate sometimes. Mostly if my DVD has been scratched. Or maybe for a night in with the missus :). But I dont sell them, and I dont make profit from them. If I like it, again I'll buy it. I like the reassurance of having a physical copy that I have bought.
  13. Cheers hex :). Reassurance is nice. Good to know that Im not wasting my time. Oooh, that sounds a lot like how I got this box. Only 10Gb HD though. And the same spec CD-ROM drive :P. No idea how they used the 10Gb HD. They used it in a professional environment, in a vets clinic. Dont think they even wiped the HD.. Might have a look at some of the old account details if curiosity hits me bad. Win98.. Damn fine :P. I love how the mouse kind of lazily drags itself around the screen. Quality :P. Wireless card should come in the post any day now. Was hoping today but meh. Edimax EW7728In PCI incase your interested. Ive read that it runs natively since a few kernel updates ago, which should be nice. :D. After that comes, it *should* just be a case of tinkering with wpasupplicant and changing SSH permissions. Maybe grab an ftp daemon from repositories, and find a nice ftp client for the laptop :). Or I'll learn some command line magic to do it instead :P
  14. Wow, cha1nBull3t. That looks immense. Can you explain your set up? :)
  15. Thank you for all the replies :). Its nice to hear from people who have done similar projects as this, really good. Any tips that might make it easier in the long run?
  16. Thanks for the replies guys. @ArkNinja How well does your thinkpad work as a file server? Is it a bit sluggish, or does it work well? Im hoping this set up will work nicely, dont want it to be too slow. @Ryan Aww nice idea about the PCI card. If I have a spare PCI slot after installing the wireless network card, I'll definately look into that one. Cheers mate :)
  17. Always wanted a server. Maybe its because I always feel like I'm running out of space (torrents, music etc), or maybe its just to mess about with. One of my friends gave me an old PC, so I've decided to attempt to turn it into a wee file server. Might make it a little web server later on, if i ever decide to try some ruby on rails programming. It's specs are pretty poor. I think I'm going to use Arch Linux, mainly just because I'm using that on my main machine, this laptop, so I'm quite used to it. Its a 667Mhz Intel Celeron. Hard drives are capped as ATA 66, which sucks, since I have so many ATA133 hard drives kicking about. It's rocking a 10/100 networking port, a "3D Rage Pro" dedicated graphics card (get in there!). It came to me with 128Mb RAM. But I'm buying two 512mb DIMMs from eBay tomorrow. I accidentally broke the 250Watt power supply (loose power cable to a hard drive.. woops), but i replace it with a spare from an old PC (350W.. yus.) I know I'm not going to get anything blisteringly efficient by the end of it. But aslong as it's bordering between "Usable" and "Darn Efficient", I'll be happy. So a few question. Im using an ATA133 Hard Drive in there just now, 120gb. It's working just now, but the chipset only plays nice with ATA66. Is it dangerous using the faster hard drive, or will it just run at the slower speed? Also, is this even worth it? Or should I give up, chuck it in the loft and buy a cheap barebones bundle and start from there? Basically, if its worth it, ill buy a wireless N-draft card, and shove it in my warddrobe, using SSH to access it and maintain it. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Pritchardo92
  18. Maybe try some encoding jobs on the PC. Its more than enough strain on my old Dell laptop *scowl*. I laughed when I saw the name of this thread, as just a few hours ago, I was working on my friends old PC (thinking about turning it into a linux file server, for personal use) and i stupidly didn't plug my hard drive in correctly, must of been partially out. I turned it on, didnt find the hard drive, pushing the power cable in some more (while the PC is on..) and POP! Wont turn on at all now..
  19. Ive previously (and recently) downloaded movies. However, for the most part, I've only done it because I own the disc which is either unreadable, or lost. I would be tempted to pirate much more if it wasnt for BT throttling my torrents. 1.5kb/s during the day makes me want to throw up, so now i torrent overnight when i have to. I've also done music, which I've subsequently bought if I liked it; if i didnt, I delete it.
  20. Also, on a lot of machines I've used, which Ive wanted to root (school, work etc. Not maliciously, just curious) "Task Manager" has been disabled.
  21. I won my schools Computing Studies prize the other week at the end of the school year. Was in a class with my year, aswell as the year above me :). I was expecting an awesome trophy, but as my luck goes, its a clock, that doesnt work, with a little plaque thing :P. I also got 100% in my Higher Computing Studies coursework. I didnt get a prize, but I so should have.. Oooh, showing scottish-ness here, but I won a chanter competition. Got a nice wee quach too (like a little silver bowl) :).
  22. @dr0p: Lol. How so? I have heard some good things about zsh, but no specific reason why it's great. EDIT: Nevermind. Installed both zsh and urxvt. Damn fine man. Loving the different themes in zsh - walters ftw :). Thanks dr0p for the suggestion. Anything else I should look into? [pypanel, conky, xcompmgr, transset, urxvt]
  23. Damn. Love these threads. Always get me well motivated to change my desktop up. Gotta admit, dr0p's desktops are ace. Mine is looking a little bit cluttered just now. Thinking of changing my pypanel layout, aswell as conky so that it looks a little bit cleaner. EDIT: Hahaha, this makes me look like the biggest noob ever. Look at my Shiretoko task name on pypanel :P . Yes, i forgot.. Haha. The more I look at my desktop, the more I realise that it's turning into Windows :o . Okay, Im cleaning it up today, definately.. Ive never even used that openbox menu launch far left of pypanel
  24. I'm a new linux convert. Still dual booting Arch Linux with XP just now, just incase I need XP for something, but I havent use XP in a good couple of weeks. I love Linux. I like what it stands for, though I think some of the linux fanboys *looks away, trying to hold back the grin* sometimes lose what it stands for. I see it standing for choice. Choice between Linux or Windows, or OSX, or between linux distros. Im not going to bash Windows. I wouldnt know how to use a computer today if I hadnt grown up with a windows 95 computer in the house. Then 98, then XP.. I just love.. Hmm, I find it pretty hard explaining. Theres something really assuring with Linux for me. It seems so transparent. Sure, from what I've experienced, some of it's really sketchy, requiring work-arounds such as using ndiswrapper with unsupported wireless cards and the like, but I find that great! It shows that Linux is truely giving choice to people - allowing people to use cards who's manufacturers havent given Linux there time and effort almost as efficiently as if they were natively compatible. I'm liking the command line alot too. It just seems so damn powerful! Especially compared to the likes of Windows. It's quite liberating writing crap loads of arguments and options, then piping it and greping it.. And then, to top it off, scripting the process and having that script work! Then having it start on boot.. To me, if feels like how computers should feel: free, and transparent, like a really solid base from which you can customise and mould to your liking. Maybe I've been lucky with compatible hardware (though my BCM wireless card was a right bitch to set up), and maybe I'm really late in the linux game, but I think it's great at what it does. Do I think Linux will ever over-take windows? No. Not when companies are willing to pay money for a great OS, with part of that payment going towards support for if (or when..) something goes wrong.. Do I want it to over-take windows? Too right :) Sorry if this is a bit off topic. This was all on the tips of my fingers and well, I couldnt stop myself.. *looks around nervously, then dives back in to next nooby script*
  25. +1 for lenovo. I don't own one, but I have many friends, and friends of friends who do, and I hear nothing but good things :). Great build quality, from what I've heard. One of my friends also has a Toshiba Satellite.. or something like that. He got this awesome deal, where after 6 months or so, he got £100 back from them, and thats on top of an initial price cut. So he got a £500 laptop, for little over £350. Its a little slow, but I blame Vista Business for that, as I'm sure XP or any Linux distro would fly. Core 2 Duo, @ ~2Ghz. 3 or 4GB RAM. Looks nice too. The whole back-end is a big hinge, a little like a macbook, with all the ports and stuff on either side of the laptop.
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