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02 Sep 09

Game Over for Sony - Community - ComputerworldUK (-)

  • the new Playstation 3 (PS3) Slim model caused some consternation for Linux users, as it revealed that PS3-maker Sony would no longer support the "Install Other OS" feature that currently operates on existing PS3 machines.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog

  • The result is a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a material cost of $7,867, the bulk of which goes to purchase the drives themselves. This translates to just three-tenths of one penny per gigabyte per month over the course of three years. Even including the surrounding costs—such as electricity, bandwidth, space rental, and IT administrators’ salaries—Backblaze spends one-tenth of the price in comparison to using Amazon S3, Dell Servers, NetApp Filers, or an EMC SAN.
  • A Backblaze Storage Pod is a self-contained unit that puts storage online. It’s made up of a custom metal case with commodity hardware inside. Specifically, one pod contains one Intel Motherboard with four SATA cards plugged into it. The nine SATA cables run from the cards to nine port multiplier backplanes that each have five hard drives plugged directly into them (45 hard drives in total).

Setting Up Samba - Community Ubuntu Documentation

  • Automagically mount SMB shares


    In order to have a share mounted automatically every time you reboot, you need to do the following:

    With any editor, create a file containing your Windows/Samba user account details: 

    gksu gedit /etc/samba/user

    KDE users must use kdesu rather than gksu and instead of Gedit they can use Kwrite as editor.

    ... it should contain two lines as follows: 

    username=samba_user
    password=samba_user_password

    Note: "samba_user" = the user name on the samba server (may be different from your log-in name on the client). "samba_user_password" is the password you assigned to the samba_user on the samba server.

    Save the file and exit gedit.

    Change the permissions on the file for security: 

    sudo chmod 0400 /etc/samba/user # permissions of 0400 = read only

    Now create a directory where you want to mount your share (e.g. /media/samba_share): 

    sudo mkdir /media/samba_share

    Now, using any editor, and add a line to /etc/fstab for your SMB share as follows: 

    sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
    gksu gedit /etc/fstab

    Add a line for your SMB share: 

    //myserver_ip_address/myshare  /media/samba_share  cifs  credentials=/etc/samba/user,noexec  0 0
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