Re: [SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
jam j...@tigger.ws writes: [snip] Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM.  LVM is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand statistics related to disk failure and the consequences of that. This comment makes no sense to me: in what way does LVM

[SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-10-28 Thread Jeremy Visser
G'day SLUG, Okay, so, I have a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWrt, serving as the Internet router for our home. You know the drill — NAT, PPPoE, whatever. Router's LAN IP address is 192.168.0.1. Several port forwards are in place (y'know — SSH, HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, and whatnot) that are already working

Re: [SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Alan L Tyree
SNIP Aside from the work mentioned above, I also edit some really big video files and do ffmpeg transformations on them. Right. In which case 64 bit is for you. So, is there some way of choosing which of the above is the best option for me? I'd suggest trying both out and see.

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-10-28 Thread peter
Jeremy == Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name writes: Jeremy Okay, so, I have a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWrt, serving as Jeremy the Internet router for our home. You know the drill — NAT, Jeremy PPPoE, whatever. Yup, same as I have Jeremy Router's LAN IP address is 192.168.0.1. Several port

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-10-28 Thread Ben Donohue
I've only ever port forwarded port 80 from external to port 80 on an internal web server. A client picks a high port and sends this request to port 80 on the web server. The web server responds out from port 80 to the high port on the client. So from a router it would port forward any

[SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread peter
Hi, I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings all over my system? (I know I can do: apt-get install pkg; apt-get remove --purge pkg but

Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings all over my system? dpkg --list | grep ^rc # sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}')

Re: [SLUG] Port forwarding weirdities

2009-10-28 Thread Ishwor Gurung
Hi, Okay, so, I have a Linksys WRT54G running OpenWrt, serving as the Internet router for our home. You know the drill — NAT, PPPoE, whatever. Router's LAN IP address is 192.168.0.1. Several port forwards are in place (y'know — SSH, HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, and whatnot) that are already working

Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 28/10/2009, at 9:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings all over my system? dpkg --list | grep ^rc # sudo

Re: [SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-28 Thread jam
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:37:16 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: jam j...@tigger.ws writes: [snip] Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM.  LVM is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand statistics related to disk failure and the

Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:51:34PM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 28/10/2009, at 9:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings

Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel Pittman
Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au writes: On 28/10/2009, at 9:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings all over

[SLUG] Re: Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Donoghoe
snip/ Thanks everyone for the advice. Following the KISS principle I am going to: 1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb) 2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive This will reduce the migration to an rsync and accessing less than an extra 1Gb RAM is not

[SLUG] OSDC 2009 Early Bird Ends Friday

2009-10-28 Thread Stephen Thorne
Hello! This is your last chance to get early bird registration for the Open Source Developers Conference, 2009. Places are running out and the discount ends on the 30th, so get in quick! The Open Source Developers' Conference is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and

Re: [SLUG] Re: Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:04:12 +1100, Bill Donoghoe donogh...@gmail.com said: snip/ Thanks everyone for the advice. Following the KISS principle I am going to: 1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb) 2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive I find it