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Private File Server Progress Report 2a: Everything is going ok now.

Posted 03-14-2009 at 07:35 AM by Seph64 (Seph64's Lair)
Updated 03-14-2009 at 05:23 PM by Seph64

Samba issues fixed and all relevant folders are now shared, OpenSSH up and running. Now I am upgrading the OS. This machine has been offline for several months, boy is that a lot of packages.

I just hope the software upgrade goes alright.

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Portage should display the dependencies...

Posted 03-10-2009 at 02:38 PM by Seph64 (Seph64's Lair)

Even if they are masked (either by keyword or hard masked).

Recently, the Gentoo dev team decided that KDE-4.2 needs a newer version of Xorg in order to function (it's been working pretty well with the version of Xorg I have been using). Wouldn't be a big deal if I didn't need to unmask all packages related to the new version.

And of course, it won't display a list of said packages. Because god forbid that I'd have an easy time unmasking packages right? I either have...

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Making a Local Area File Server

Posted 03-08-2009 at 03:18 PM by Seph64 (Seph64's Lair)
Updated 03-08-2009 at 04:14 PM by Seph64 (changed post to be more of a progress report rather than a cry for help.)

Well I finally bought some Ram (1GB DDR 333) from newegg for my old computer (AMD AthlonXP 2400+ 120GB HDD, 40GB HDD). There's no need for an OS install since Gentoo is already installed. And there is a lot of data on the dead (as of now since it has no ram) computer that I value highly.

Would directories defined as SAMBA shares be sufficient enough for a Private File server?

Of course, I need to configure the system to be access from a different system for system upgrades...

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A rant of Desktop Environments + latest Desktop shot.

Posted 03-06-2009 at 11:12 AM by Seph64 (Seph64's Lair)

Back when I started using Linux, I was using Madrake 8.2 as my distro (back in 2001, maybe 2002). The default DE was KDE. And it looked different from the Windows I was used to, but that didn't scare me.

Throughout my Linux adventure, I kept switching between Desktop Environments, KDE and GNOME. At the time, I did not like the Gnome environment very much, so I would always go back to KDE (I made a joke to myself that no matter what would happen, I would always end up with KDE as...

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To Linux or not to Linux? That is the question....

Posted 03-04-2009 at 10:47 PM by Seph64 (Seph64's Lair)

No, I am not questioning whether I should keep using Linux (or not). What I am questioning is the wisdom of trying to get close relatives to use Linux when all they use is Windows.

When is it alright to get someone in your family to use something they have never used before?

Me? I have given up trying to get anyone close to me to use Linux. My mother jinxes any computer she touches. She installs junk (which I believe cause most of her computer problems), though when...

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