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8 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread My wife is driving me nuts. Help me! in The Cafe

That's a big part of it. For me, it would give me the ability to pay off debts and stuff, but I'll throw a buck or two on the lotto every now and...

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8 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread My wife is driving me nuts. Help me! in The Cafe

Here's a good explanation of why buying more than one ticket doesn't really help much (unless you buy a ton of them). ...

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8 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread My wife is driving me nuts. Help me! in The Cafe

Uh good luck? :p Also, what leclerc65 said. You can try to explain the probability, but in general, people who play the lotto play it to win,...

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10 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread LAMP for Wordpress safe on home computer? in Security Discussions

Should be fine if you are just using it for local development.

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14 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Psychocats Tutorials Updates in The Cafe

Nice. That's the same license I release the stuff I post on my website under. Good to know if/when I want to port my stuff to the wiki.

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14 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Shell Scripting in Server Platforms

Depends on the language. If you want to check out Python, check the link I posted earlier as they have some very nice tutorials. There is also a...

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14 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Help buying a server in Server Platforms

Cool. I was actually looking at that case but I had never heard of the APEX brand before. I really like that it has an internal 3.5" bay, and since...

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20 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Cannot unlink symlink to directory in Desktop Environments

rm -i /path/to/symlink ;) Use sudo if needed.

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20 Hours Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread LAMP for Wordpress safe on home computer? in Security Discussions

Good link. I run VMs when I am testing stuff and as more of a separation of services type thing if I am running a publicly accessible service. It...

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread ubuntu system does not sound - backtrack5 in Absolute Beginners Section

You would probably have better luck over at the backtrack forums. BT is pretty heavily modified and isn't really supported here.

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread wheres reboot command in Absolute Beginners Section

If I remember right, you need to logout before you can reboot. Not sure though, as I haven't used 12.04 in a while. Btw, HiImTye is correct, 10.04...

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CharlesA replied to a thread SSH "Authentications that can continue: Permission denied, please try again." in Server Platforms

You have no authentication methods available. Change PasswordAuthentication no to PasswordAuthentication yes and restart ssh, then try to connect....

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CharlesA replied to a thread Help buying a server in Server Platforms

That Biostar one is nice. I'm getting the itch to try building an HTPC now.. except with my media server being my file server.... What kind of...

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CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Welcome! Enjoy your new shares. :)

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CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

chmod 777 all those and see what happens. EDIT: Derp, need to read slower. Glad you got it sorted. :)

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Ok. Run this then: id mary id twinpeaksr

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

What file system is it using?

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CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Can you post the results of this: ls -ld /media/data500G/Shared

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Check out what koenn posted below: I've always used lowercase for usernames, so that didn't occur to me. If the homes share works for both,...

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Shell Scripting in Server Platforms

Ain't that the truth. I've got a simple vbox script i wrote to power down the VMs before the system rebooted and that went from simple and a monster....

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Good luck! I wrote that tutorial originally when I set up my 10.04 server and ran into a ton of conflicting information. so far it still works for...

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CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

I've only used UNIX groups as well and did most of the permission stuff via UNIX permissions instead of dealing with Samba itself. @OP: If you are...

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread "halt" does not power off on Ubuntu Server 12.04 in General Help

Welcome. Getting in the habit of using poweroff hasn't been that big of a deal, and now I don't have to worry about the machine being running but...

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Security and gaming in Security Discussions

md5sum is cryptographically insecure. There are a bunch of stuff out there about it, and one of the better sites I found probably shouldn't be...

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1 Day Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread SAMBA and permissions in Server Platforms

Double check the permissions. If you have enabled guest sharing via smb.conf and they still cannot connect, it is more than likely a permissions...

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Linux Rumours - Longer lasting Hardware in The Cafe

I usually stick to free -m so it is easier to read. :) +1. As much as I like top, htop is more colourful. ;)

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread backup script that delets older copys in Server Platforms

This is the best solution if you do not want to modify the existing script.

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread What's the hardest thing you've tried to learn? in The Cafe

Sounds about right. ;) Heh. Not really. Procrastination has something to do with time management.. like when someone is awake until 3am...

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Linux Rumours - Longer lasting Hardware in The Cafe

What's bad about it? It looks like you are only using 550MB of memory. root@Thor:~# free total used free shared ...

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread What's the hardest thing you've tried to learn? in The Cafe

Does procrastination fit in there somewhere? :D

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread Shell Scripting in Server Platforms

I started out the same ay prodigy_ did. I think my first shell script was one to handle daily backups and it was a mess at first but kept getting...

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CharlesA replied to a thread Psychocats Tutorials Updates in The Cafe

It happens to everyone. I've been moving away from using Ubuntu daily/weekly since I got a Debian box setup at work and on my VPS. Use what works for...

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2 Days Ago

CharlesA replied to a thread In preparation to write my CompTIA A+ Certification.... in The Cafe

Same thing. As long as you can tell which part of the IP is the host part and which is the network part, you are ok. That doesn't look...

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