Tag Archives: servers

Accessing partitions within an image or LVM volume used as an iSCSI target

Posted on May 17, 2013 by sillyscientist

I recently reinstalled the software on my NAS (open media vault) and tidied up the host name etc. As part of this I changed the name of the iSCSI target. This meant that my media PC wouldn’t boot over the … Continue reading →

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MediaPC in a Xen Virtual Machine

Posted on December 19, 2012 by sillyscientist

The aim of this project was to get my MediaPC running as a VM host. This would allow me to run instances alongside my MediaPC, thus giving me a platform to experiment and develop things without having to setup separate machines etc. … Continue reading →

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Installing gitorious on Ubuntu 10.04 HOWTO

Posted on December 12, 2010 by sillyscientist

I like using Git for my projects and I tend to host them outside of the computer I work on. I was finding the current way I was managing projects a bit cubersome so I decided to install Gitorious which … Continue reading →

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rsync Backup / Dropbox style setup

Posted on December 8, 2010 by sillyscientist

Introduction This tutoral/HOWTO is designed to help you setup an rsync back/dropbox style synced folder on the Netgear stora. The aim of this is to have a synced folder that will automatically back up to a remote location. The main … Continue reading →

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Useful Server Setup Tutorials

Posted on September 25, 2010 by sillyscientist

So I decided to take a leap and move VPS providers. Moving servers turns out to be hard work. Here is a list of useful stuff that I had to dig out again when setting up the new one – … Continue reading →

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