Tag Archives: Linux/Mac

Save hundreds of dollars in electricity costs - TonidoPlug ROI

Yes. TonidoPlug can help you to save hundreds of dollars in electricity costs. In fact, it pays for itself in approximately 9 months.
TonidoPlug is based on Marvell’s 1.2 Ghz Sheeva processor (ARM Architecture) which consumes typically 1/20 of your average desktop power consumption. TonidoPlug consumes power anywhere between 3.1 watts (Min) to 7 watts [...]

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Create samba user shares in TonidoPlug (NAS)

TonidoPlug can act as NAS device.
When an external USB harddisk is connected to TonidoPlug, it automatically mounts the USB HDD and makes it available for other computers on the network.  So for example, to connect to this share from windows, open an explorer window and type \\<TonidoPlug IP>\MediaDisk and you get full access to [...]

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Tonido Featured in Linux Magazine

Another first for Tonido!
Tonido is featured in August issue of Linux Magazine.  Check out http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2009/105/cloud_9.
Thanks  Dmitri Popov for your balanced and thorough review.

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How one can set up executable permissions on a file under subversion

Sometimes when you check out shell and perl scripts from subversion to run automated tests it will be handy if you can set the executable permission permanently in the subversion repository. The following code snippet will do that for you. Just change the filename to your script name.
svn propset svn:executable ON filename

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Create your own Virtual Private Network for SSH with Putty

Introduction
I have multiple Linux machines at my home. Previously, when I needed SSH access to these machines I used to setup port forwarding on my router to each of these machines. It was a tedious process of enabling port forwarding and then disabling it after use. It was also difficult to remember port number forwarded [...]

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Configure and Use Dynamic DNS

DNS
DNS or Domain Name lookup Service provides the mapping between internet addresses such as 22.43.68.133 to a human readable (and memorable) address (known as URL) such as www.apple.com. Without a DNS service it will be difficult for us to remember all the internet server addresses that we use daily. These address mappings will be hosted [...]

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Sharing your SSH commandline

Our small team has a wide ranging set of skill levels in Linux. Sometimes, it is particularly illuminating to see how something is setup. Particularly, we want the equivalent of a bunch of people huddled in front of a monitor while one person types.
Surprisingly, this can be accomplished quite easily in Linux.
Actually, this is one [...]

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