The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Losses, piracy and all that:

| July 7, 2004

Okay, so P2P is responsible for lots of money “lost” for the commercial software industry: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/08/0139245.shtml?tid=187&tid=98&tid=99 And I guess that there “Open Source Linux stuff” has nothing to do with it, eh Clem? Oh, and for some reason, despite how much P2P and all that is hurting them, the movie industry managed to set a [...]

beep beep – backup!

| July 7, 2004

So, I finally have a backup solution for my way too much data – dar! It takes directories and archives them (much like tar) including splitting them into various-sized chunks. It also has a flexible execution system allowing you to tell it to execute shell commands – like “burn this to a dvd, then eject [...]

Happy day off everyone (in the US)

| July 5, 2004

So, I've figured out what to do with the 3 80GB drives + spare RAID controller. I set them up as JBOD, so I have /dev/sda – /dev/sdc. Then, I used lvm2 to create 1 big disk, and am using that as a backup in case something bad happens to the main server. Why do [...]

Happy long weekend everyone!

| July 3, 2004

So, Liz said that “The Legend of Bagger Vance” was a bad movie. So far it's alright, and I'm an hour in to it. It's kind of funny to see Will Smith playing the role of mentor… I think I fixed my receiver. The remote control wasn't working, and it was getting annoying, so I [...]