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Comment Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 (Score 1) 608

by mutrax (#31187902) Attached to: Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution?
I second that. Just rewiring the house with cat5e will be the cheapest solution... I do this weekly on a proffesional basis, and I often did this the other way around (send video over cat5e) But for a descent network connection, pulling new networkcables trough is the way to go.

O yeah, one piece of advice, use detergent for dishes as lube! (I don't leave to a job without havin' a bottle with me) .

Regards,
ed at omts dot be
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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus from the nice-feed dept.
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Comment low-power barebone anyone? (Score 1) 697

by mutrax (#29870471) Attached to: Low-Power Home Linux Server?

To quote myself in a discussion I had on Ubuntuforums....

I use/sold a lot of linux home servers

The hardware is a shuttle k45 barebone with 1 Gb ram and a low power intel cpu and 2 identical disks ( from 500Gb to 2Tb each).

I run hardy 8.04 on them. I set up software raid 1 (/ and swap part).
-ssh shell and webmin for administration
-samba for file sharing
-mediatomb/ampache for music streaming to pc/console
-imap mail server with postfix/dovecot to make mail accesible evrywhere
-with cronjobs I handle automatic backups & auto shutdown from 23:55 to 7:30 (powersave)
-I'm in the middle of trying to get funambol running for phone/calendar /mai syncing

There's a steep learning curve if you're only used to windows systems, but these systems out perform windows by price (licensing costs), flexibility (wat can't be achieved?) and stability (viruses? crashes?)

I access the severs features from the outside via my dd-wrt enabled router that runs dns and a vpn server.

If you want to know more I'd be glad to go more into specifics.
This servers uses at minimum 35 watt (according to shuttle). But a average server with 2x 1Tb and celeron processor uses 55 watts in my experience.

This setup did the trick multiple times for me... Yearly usage of 330kWh, due to auto shutdown/restart at night and "green" components.... and no hard hacking exotic HW
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Pirate Party Banned From Social Networking Site 354

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the you-can't-buy-publicity-like-that dept.
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that as the European Parliament elections loom, StudiVZ, Germany's largest social networking site, has opened up to political parties for election campaigning. That is, if you aren't the Pirate Party. "The other political parties were allowed to have a special account to show they are an organization and not an individual. The Pirate Party, however, was not allowed to have one and instead operated on a standard user account registered by an individual. StudiVZ noticed that the Pirate Party account was not a "real person" and despite it having a thriving network with hundreds of followers, it was summarily deleted. This means that it is impossible for the Pirate Party to have a presence at all on the largest social networking site in Germany." Update: 05/02 19:17 GMT by T : Reader riot notes: "FYI: I just translated the press release to English."

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