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After the enclosure and controller, these cost more than the N36L itself, no?

It does not support UEFI, but it does support GPT. I'm using a 40 GB SSD as a system disk (Linux) partitioned with GPT and it works fantastic. Partition table: $ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.14 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM...

In my N36L hardware review, I measured 45W at "idle" (hard disks were NOT spun down but the system wasn't doing anything).

Already a third of the price of the N36L, and no drive sleds for those 7 drives. Yah, you have fun with that.

Do multiplexed-over-internal-SATA enclosures exist? I've seen it done over eSATA, but not internal SATA. Most enclosures use mini-SAS, like the N36L. That said, it's pretty clear that the enclosure you posted isn't one of them — you'll need an SATA cable per drive to your controller.

I'm a little confused with the obsession with benchmarking in this thread. Yes, it's a netbook CPU, but file serving is completely I/O bound. And unless you're using the included 160 GB disk, the system is a "barebones" unit and whatever performance you get is dependent on what you put into...

As I mentioned, rsync, unencrypted. Downloading a few multi-gigabyte files from the N36L to a laptop with an Intel X25-M SSD. Filesystem on the N36L was XFS setup on Linux software RAID 5 device w/ a v1.2 superblock. Laptop was ext4. In case it isn't obvious, in no way was I attempting to...

I'm running Debian GNU/Linux (AMD64) with 4x 7200 RPM 500 GB disks (I initially bought 4x 2 TB disks, but decided to use them elsewhere) in Linux software RAID 5. I haven't setup any NAS-type software or file sharing, but I've no problem maxing out the Gigabit Ethernet rsyncing things to and...

Done — Thanks! The photos have been around for a few weeks and I think are already in Google's first page of results.

Whatever was on sale at Newegg… which happened to be the G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333. Like I mention in the review, I had to remove the heatsinks to make them fit in the case. The heatsinks were so easy to remove, there's no way it could have been...

In case others are looking for more info… I've both a decent set of pictures (better than what's already on the Internet, IMHO) , as well as my own hardware review. Working on a software review… I'm running Debian GNU/Linux off an 8 GB flash drive on my N36L.

Those are actually my photos on Flickr. I have one, and am working on a hardware (should have finished it two weeks ago) and software review. What's up? I run Debian Linux, so can't comment on FreeBSD compatibility. Also running it off an 8 GB USB stick w/out any problems (so far).

You really don't need a dedicated swap partition. Take a look at compcache, or perhaps a small swap file. It's not a myth, but it's not exactly a substantial performance gain either. But if you're not going to use the space, leaving it unpartitioned can't hurt (unlike a large swap partition...

There aren't any immediate disadvantages. However, you will waste disk space—disk space you could be using for something else. Also, when you do run out of RAM, your system will start swapping to disk, at which point the load will go so high that it will become unusable till it just...

Are you sure the problem is Linux/grub? It's more likely that your BIOS is not letting you boot from the fourth disk. Most BIOSes are extremely picky about these things and appear to allow it, but don't in practice.

If you want to set charging thresholds on a ThinkPad, take a look at the tp_smapi module. Once you have it installed, you can set thresholds in /etc/sysfs.conf (the following is what I use): # Battery charging thresholds devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh = 75...

I don't know of any command-line tools that tell you time remaining for an entire operation... I guess in these tools' defense, time remaining can be difficult to determine anyway, so none of the tools bother to tell you the "Microsoft minutes" remaining. rsync with the -Pv options will tell...

NetBeans also runs on Linux, so you could continue to use that. That said, I'd force myself to learn Eclipse.. it is just too popular to not know how to use.

What's wrong with Linux? If you're just going to be an end-user, then whether Linux is fractured is totally unimportant to you--just pick one of the popular distributions, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora. There many nonsensical myths out there, and unless they actually affect you (they probably don't)...

I recommend: rdiff-backup: requires remote system also running rdiff-backup, i.e. another Linux machine duplicity: makes encrypted tar archives that can be placed anywhere, including built-in support for Amazon S3 Writing scripts to create tar files is just too old school, IMHO.

My laptop, running Kubuntu 6.10, Beryl/Emerald, and Tango icon set:

Er, sorry if my post was unclear, because I mentioned the commands to do that. On the source machine you want to backup the list of installed packages: dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt Copy selections.txt to the target machine, and run: dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt Then run...

No, there's not a particularly easy way to move your configuration... You can backup etc, and backup your package status (dpkg --get-selections). On reinstall, you can restore etc, and set the package status again (pipe the output of get-selections into dpkg --set-selections).

With GNU find, when you specify a number by itself like that, you are asking for files with modification times of exactly 0 or 36 hrs ago. Not terribly useful. What you want is to specify files with a access time less than or equal to 36 hrs ago: this is done with: find -mtime -2161 See...

KevinO, ~Loke: What's the application you've running on your desktops that's summarizing system info like that?

What font is being used to draw the title bar/windows? Tried changing it?

Basically what Josh_B said. More details in the RHEL Reference Guide: Running Additional Programs at Boot Time.

Redhat's site has tons of marketing drivel on why they're better for businesses... I suggest you go check all that material out.

Make sure the card is not defined in /etc/network/interfaces. If you're setting network settings manually with the various network configuration software, it probably is defined as these applications modify that file. KWiFiManager won't work with a network interface if it's being handled by...

If you ever ask for Linux help, make sure you always provide distribution and version. ...which you haven't done. There are probably a couple hundred different ways to do this, but only a few good ways for a certain distribution.

The '\a' character sounds a beep from the PC speaker. Add a script that will be executed at the end of your desired runlevel that runs: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/printf '\a'

In general, yes, VMWare provides excellent CPU performance. See Samba. Not any more difficult than accessing files remotely with any other OS. Probably... The biggest bottleneck in VM performance (or any system, really) is not giving it enough RAM. My answer is obivously going to be...

The main reason for your average user to use LVM is that LVM logical volumes are resizable. You can make larger and smaller filesystems as your needs change. LVM also has a bunch of other "enterprise" features, like spanning across disks, snapshotting, etc. If you're going to setup RAID on...

I used FC5 64-bit (in a non-LTSP) for a bit, it was fine. Seems as if a better question to ask would be whether you want to use proprietary 32-bit-only apps, such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc...

I personally think that this stall is due to Microsoft taking such a long time to push out the next version of Windows. Unfortunately, a lot of "innovation" in Linux DEs comes externally from the FOSS community. I don't think it's a problem for Linux personally. Applications and certain APIs...

I think this thread is supposed to be Linux/BSD/Free OS-specific. Posting a picture of our workspace implies that we have to clean them up...

No, Slackware doesn't really have hardware detection. If your wireless card is PCI-based, you can use the `lspci -v` command to list device information and see if some Linux driver supports it. Alternatively, get some LiveCD with good hardware detection (say, Ubuntu, or KNOPPIX) and see if...

Since a PII-300 is effectively i686, I'd just go ahead with the latest version; no reason not to. Debian doesn't come with SSHd or NTPd on the default install (why should it?), but they are both trivial to install.

Another vote for Debian here. Unless you want to dedicate a lot of time to fixing your servers from "security updates and bug fixes," I'd avoid Fedora like the plague. CentOS/RHEL are much more robust alternatives if you want an RPM-based system.