Linux

An experiment

Byetzion 30/09/2008

My brother is a computer illiterate. He can use a computer for the purpose of e-mail messaging and for editing documents, spreadsheets, etc.

I have decided to “abuse” his older laptop, an IBM X31 and install Ubuntu on it. This is some sort of an experiment. I wonder how he, a simple user, can cope up with using Linux as a desktop.

I have made sure he had the following, for now:

Ubuntu 8.04 32bit
Firefox 3 with Adblock Plus
Hebrew fonts, and msttfcorefonts package installed
OpenOffice which defaults to saving in MS Office formats – doc, xls, ppt
Skype
VLC media player
Hebrew layout enabled

I will let him use it for a few days, and keep my blog up to date on this. It interests me 🙂

Disk Storage | Linux

dm-multipath and loss of all paths

Byetzion 13/05/2008

dm-multipath is a great tool. Its abilities were proven to me on many occasions, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. NetApp, for example, use it. HP use it as well (a slightly modified version, and still), and it works. A problem I have encountered is as follow – if a single path fails,…

bash | Disk Storage | Linux | Scripting/Programming

An excellent alternative to ‘rsync’ for backups to cloud

Byetzion 23/02/202323/02/2023

I have been using NextCloud for a long while now. It is a smart solution, and although I do not like its agent (I’ve had many problems with it around Hebrew file names on multiple types of operating systems, which never matured enough for a full bug description and details) – for an easy access…

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Why people use Linux

Byetzion 30/10/2005

Tom Adelstein has posted an article about why people use Linux. Although I tend to stick to the tech stuff, it was rather interesting. One could never imaging MS bashing wasn’t one of the major reasons… 🙂 I have had fun with Cacti, in the meanwhile. It is one mean graphing machine. Details, as well…

Linux | Scripting/Programming

Asus wireless router and VLAN tagging

Byetzion 09/02/201807/04/2020

The idea in general is to have multiple wireless networks at home – one for the house residents, the other for visitors. The home network should have full access to everything, while the guest network should be able to reach the Internet, but nothing else. I have Asus RT-AC87U, which is a fine router, but…

Linux

Work around ISP QoS limitations

Byetzion 29/05/2009

ISPs which enforce QoS limitations suddenly, without alerting the customer, are abusing their force. QoS limitation is not a bad thing, from the ISP’s point of view, but changing the customer deal without notifying him seems to me to be unfair. This is a recipe for a QoS workaround. Ingredients: One fast Internet connection which…

General Hardware | Laptop | Linux

Linux boot security – a discussion

Byetzion 07/05/202227/01/2023

Hi. As some know now, I have an article about encrypting and protecting Linux – while using TPM to prevent the need to enter the encryption passphrase every time the system boots. This is one of the most popular article in this blog, and for a very good reason – people want their computers (especially…

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