Posts Tagged ‘linux’

The server

Friday, February 27th, 2009

My cute little server Defiant, where I run my webserver, database and trekwar server tests, deserves some recognition:

The server itself is a little aopen cube shuttle pc running fedora linux :)

defiant

The server is of course covered with Star Trek ships, a Robotech VF-1, oldschool Batman and a badger for good luck. The server is starting to get old 4-5 years, and if it where not for backups, I would frequently worry about hard drive failure. Before that happens, I hope it will reach the 1000 day uptime :)

Defiant uptime

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Chuck

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

I started watching a new TV series after christmas, figuring I should watch at least ONE tv series that isn’t science fiction.

Chuck is a action comedy (more comedy than action) series about a computer nerd who gets a big database of government secrets uploaded into his brain. He works at Nerd Herd (the support department) of a local electronics retailer who has lots of interesting and weird characters.

After getting the database put in his head, he invoulentarily becomes a “spy” working with two operatives from the NSA and CIA.

The series is filled with humor, interesting situations and is really fun to watch. The series started in 2007, and season 2 just finished. Have only watched the first season yet.

I love all of the nerd humor in the show

  • Chuck speaks klingon
  • Chuck has a sandworm costume (from Dune)
  • A ninja tries to steal Chuck’s computer
  • Chuck needs bandages after playing to much Call of Duty
  • Chuck installs Linux :)
  • etc..

And I cant wait for the episode called “Chuck Versus the Delorean” :D

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Mozy

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I’ve been trying out Mozy for backup for a while (the free version limited to 2GB of storage).

I recently upgraded to the mozyhome edition, it’s only 5$ each month for unlimited storage, but only for ONE computer.. And since I’m cheap and there is no Linux client, I just mirror the things from the server I have to back up in a directory on my windows PC (SVN repository, postgres database, web server config/logs/etc).

Uploading the initial data (22 GB) took around 3 days, but the incremental backups are much quicker.

I like that Mozy stores several versions of the file, so I can roll back to a specific date. They only save the different snapshots of files for a month, but for the important stuff I have SVN which lets me do unlimited rollbacks anyway.

update April 27th 2009
I recently managed to corrupt a 30 MB file and had to restore it. unlike the upload of the data, restoring it (downloading) was extremely fast, got around 6 MB/s download speed :)

update April June 6th 2011
Mozy stopped with the unlimited plans, making me get a 125gb plan at twice of what I paid before. So obviously I’m switching to CrashPlan when my mozy account expires. The Crashplan client is much better (allows it to also back up to a local drive, or at a friends computer), and they offer unlimited upload at the same price as mozy 50 GB.. They also have a family option that includes up to 10 computers. It also seems like you can install mozy on both your stationary computer and laptop, and have the laptop backup stuff to your stationary computer, which then backs up to the crashplan servers. Also Crashplan supports linux :)

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all work..

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Today I did the most tedious work ever.
Having committed everything on my CVS server using a Linux client for the last years, I accidentally forgot to mark stuff as binary. As a result every binary file (like pictures, datafiles, etc..) get fucked up if I check them out on a windows computer.

So, I’ve spent around 3 hours going into every directory in the CVS tree, running the “cvs admin -kb” command on all binary files..

Followed by a couple of “cvs update -A”.

All this so I might checkout some files to eclipse on my stationary computer..

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