Comments on: Case in point: File server and torrent slave

By: Anonymous Penguin

Anonymous Penguin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:43:40 +0000

I agree, never know what skiddies like DarkSide and LeGiOn_X are slipping in to your Creative Commons-licensed music and free software GNU/Linux distros.

By: In-house shuffle « Motho ke motho ka botho

In-house shuffle « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:13:49 +0000

[...] So it takes over two major tasks — file hosting and downloading — and because it can handle CardBus PCMCIA cards, it is living in the closet, using the erstwhile quirky ath5k-based network card to download 24/7 over wireless. Much like the old 600m did. [...]

By: Rounding out a terminal-based Debian system « Motho ke motho ka botho

Rounding out a terminal-based Debian system « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:46:50 +0000

[...] sometimes do) use. Provided you’re not going to dedicate the machine to a singular task and imprison it in the closet, this might actually make a machine usable for you, all the way down to around [...]

By: newsgroupsdirect

newsgroupsdirect — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:26:07 +0000

Torrents aren’t safe, use newsgroups, try it free..

By: A new mini keyboard « Motho ke motho ka botho

A new mini keyboard « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:36:30 +0000

[...] electronics shop, mostly because it fit the physical dimensions I wanted, and also because, as some people have noted, having an external keyboard is a useful troubleshooting [...]

By: Installing Crux 2.6 via ssh « Motho ke motho ka botho

Installing Crux 2.6 via ssh « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:37 +0000

[...] an uptime of 17 days I decided I wasn’t really proving anything by running the beast as a server trapped in the closet, aside from proving that you can abandon a Gnome Ubuntu machine in the closet with a few extraneous [...]

By: vespas

vespas — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:19:41 +0000

exactly, even if you don’t use it regularly, I find an external keyboard to be a good debugging tool. They’re cheap, just keep one under your bed…

as for the net, I don’t know the details on Arch, on suse yast lets you switch between ifup and networkmanager. I suppose all it does is indeed add entries to rc.local and remove networkmanager from autostart.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:49:56 +0000

Just IMO of course but I have found a USB keyboard to be very useful in dealing with various pieces of semi-functioning hardware, I would consider it an indispensable tool

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:29 +0000

You’re right, a USB keyboard might be a solution, but personally, I don’t like to use them with laptops.

Part of the appeal to me is that laptops have a small footprint on my desk, and adding an external keyboard eats up space. Plus, this is a machine that I probably won’t keep for long, since it has a history of hardware issues. I’d rather not spend money on a machine with a miscreant streak.

And really, it’s not that great of a machine. More and more, its value is in parts, not the whole.

As far as the network, I have only used the desktop network manager. Should I be hotwiring rc.local to bring up the network instead? That was my initial thought, but logging in and then out worked for me.

By: tigrmesh

tigrmesh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:26:35 +0000

Not everyone has a USB keyboard.

I’ve had to do that copy/paste over a bad “a” key. It’s no fun. But it’s better than not being able to use the machine at all.