Using apt-cacher to reduce your bandwidth consumption
We had been managing on an Airtel 512kbps business plan for quite a while. When a new fourth office came up, it became apparent that our connection would no longer serve our purpose. For the fourth office, the Internet was critical and even after going in for a new 1Mbps leased line, our individual bandwidth [...]
Review: D-Link DNS-323 NAS Box
NAS is finally getting cheap enough to fit the budget of big budget home owners and SOHO and SMB’s. With cameras, video recorders, movies and music all going digital, users now have huge amounts of data they want to protect optimally. With increased hard drive space being available at lower costs, redundant backup is slowly [...]
Solved: Attachments sent from Outlook or Entourage show as .dat files
I’ve had this problem reported to me sporadically for quite a while now and I thought it best to do a post on it so that I can point users to this page rather than trying to explain this to an unending list of individual users. Trying a few experiments and deliberately emailing a few [...]
Recovering from a broken array : Ubuntu Software RAID
Rebuilding your software RAID 1 array after replacing a failed disk
Webhosting and your MYSQL data
I’ve always wanted to setup my own hosting server. This however will have to wait for a few more years. In the meantime I need to host my blog somewhere and also my business site. I started off with hosting on Indian servers. A few bad experiences down the line, and I switched to godaddy’s [...]
Installing the Tata Photon plus on ubuntu 10
This post has been pending for quite awhile. I had been using Windows 7 both on my home Desktop and Notebook for work related reasons and was not able to put my Photon + to the test on Ubuntu. The Tata Photon Plus USB mobile broadband modem supports TV, works well on Windows and the [...]
Taking screenshots with Lightscreen
Screenshots are an important part of IT support. Whether it be for documentation from the IT persons end or the screenshot which an end user sends to the service technician which eases understanding of the problem or the error message as the scope for misunderstanding is reduced to zero. Taking screenshots however is not as [...]
Syncing data between two Ubuntu servers using rsync
Back to HIS Installation Home This is the continuation of the post ‘Setting up automatic backups for MySQL‘ Keeping in mind the previous documentation, the IP address of the main server is 192.168.0.222 (This is the main/live server also called the HMS server) and that of the backup server is 192.168.0.111 (This is the backup [...]
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