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By: I’m a Linux Fan! | UbuntuLinuxHelp Wheatley

I’m a Linux Fan! | UbuntuLinuxHelp Wheatley — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:17:09 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:55:34 +0000

@плoxaя – Спасибо. Это приятно читать.
Извините, что я не говорю по-русски.

Thank you. This is nice to read.
Sorry that I don’t speak Russian.

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By: плoxaя

плoxaя — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:10:11 +0000

Это хорошо что вы начали вести блог,ведь у вас это отлично получается и надеюсь будет еще лучше. Главное писать о том,в чем вы разбираетесь. Удачи. :)

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By: Friday Favorites | Scribute

Friday Favorites | Scribute — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:06:47 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:02 +0000

@David B – So that I can turn my main computer (the big one) off and leave torrents downloading without interruption. ;)
(And I can access all files from any other computer and always have backups).

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By: David B

David B — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:18:29 +0000

Why don’t you just play it from your own computer?

By: FlyCat

FlyCat — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:42:13 +0000

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By: DigitalMind

DigitalMind — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:15:33 +0000

This seems almost overly complicated. I have a pc tucked away running ubuntu with a shared folder on the network that stores my files. When I want to play something, I simply play it over the network via the shared folder. For my downloads, there’s a directory in the shared folder that my torrent client always checks for new torrents and loads them automatically when they appear in the folder. (So I browse for my torrents on whatever PC, then save the torrent in the shared folder) When the download is finished the file is moved to the “downloads” folder so I know it’s been completed. When I need access to the PC, I simply use the remote desktop viewer. (although it’s pretty rare that I need to do anything on it) I’m not sure why it was necessary to install a web server, database, ssh, etc etc .. (Although i’m almost sure there’s a very good reason i’m not thinking of)

Thanks for the great post!

By: whoa

whoa — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:08:05 +0000

I did this once, pentium mmx, 64MB RAM, 2GB HD… debian floppy disks installation… best shell torrent client I’ve found was rtorrent, i believe that was the name… better than many x11 clients, easy keyboard navigation, very deep options per file, file-part, peer, etc…

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:10:44 +0000

@kewl – You must use a static IP address. But, here is a workaround for DHCP: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/ins.....h-cgi-bin/
(Create a DHCP reservation and configure the host files).
;)

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By: kewl

kewl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:05:53 +0000

is it possible to setup file server using the dynamic address, or a static IP address is a must?
well, I must admit that I am new to networking..

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:01:13 +0000

@nate – Nice suggestion! :) The developer’s blog (for mdadm) is here: http://neil.brown.name/blog/md.....adm

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By: nate

nate — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:04:41 +0000

I like to recommend mdadm for software raid using multiple disks. Webmin (great!) also has a utility to help setup the raid configurations through mdadm. I have two 500GB drives in software raid1 for backing up files, and i’ve actually reinstalled the ubuntu server after a failed motherboard, and re-setup the raid using mdadm on the new install and never lost a file. I use vsftpd for an ftp server, never tried anything else because that worked immediately for me, and it does SSL encryption very easily. You can get a vsftpd webmin module to make ftp server setup easier. I’ve also used LLink, which is a great http media streaming program, very easy to setup and provides pretty xml pages for your media.

By: Tom Hanson

Tom Hanson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:34:46 +0000

For people who dont’t want to spend a tonne of money on a new box.

for example the one you have,

Usb hard drives??

i Got a old latitude laptop which i use got it for £15 ($25-$30) then got an usb 500Gb hard drive, low noise, small, and very low power consuption, :)

works a treat thanks to ubuntu :)

By: Switching From XP to Linux - Should You? | Ubuntu Linux Help

Switching From XP to Linux - Should You? | Ubuntu Linux Help — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:53:28 +0000

[...] them to a file server. Don’t have a file server? If interested, take a peak at this post: 30 Dollars, 30 Minutes, 1 Nice Fileserver. In my case I set up a local (LAN) FTP server and uploaded all my files and the email backup to [...]