Comments for Clipboard Extender Dot Com http://www.clipboardextender.com Clipboard resources for end-users and developers. Tue, 13 May 2008 09:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10121 admin Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:00:32 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10121 EV, Update: I did chmod 770 on the dev and prod directories, and now the kids can't open them. EV, Update:
I did chmod 770 on the dev and prod directories, and now the kids can’t open them.

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10114 admin Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:46:33 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10114 Hi EV, You're right - everyone can see the dev and prod directories. I need to re-visit this.... They can't modify/delete anything though. But I'd rather that they aren't navigable. Hi EV,
You’re right - everyone can see the dev and prod directories. I need to re-visit this…. They can’t modify/delete anything though. But I’d rather that they aren’t navigable.

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by ev http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9925 ev Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:30:41 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9925 very helpful article :-) Question: with ref. to, quote: "Notice that everyone can see the “pub” and “www” directories, but only the “thornsoft” members (chris and brenda) can even SEE the dev and prod directories" To handle permissions by hand through SSH is a good idea, however how do you hide /dev & /prod dirs. for others users than chris & brenda? very helpful article :-)
Question:
with ref. to, quote: “Notice that everyone can see the “pub” and “www” directories, but only the “thornsoft” members (chris and brenda) can even SEE the dev and prod directories”

To handle permissions by hand through SSH is a good idea, however how do you hide /dev & /prod dirs. for others users than chris & brenda?

]]> Comment on Vista Program Files Hide and Seek by Rajan Babu http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/vista-program-files-hide-and-seek#comment-9817 Rajan Babu Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:37:13 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/vista-program-files-hide-and-seek#comment-9817 Thank you very much for sharing this information Thank you very much for sharing this information

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by Rudy http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9773 Rudy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:30:58 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9773 <p>Great article! I'm curious about a couple of things:</p> <p>1) How do you have this connected to your network? I am considering a NAS type unit, but want to use it with a Squeezebox...so I may want to tuck this into a closet or basement and use a wireless network card.</p> <p>2) Any recommendations for a low-power-consuming system? I notice (elsewhere) that you mentioned it consumed only about 50 watts. I do not want this to run 24/7, but I also don't want it to soak up a lot of power.</p> <strong>Admin Replies:</strong> <ital>It's connected via Cat5 Ethernet, but I see that there are provisions for wireless. I plan on having it running 24/7 except when we're on vacation, so I look at it as "50 watts is a lot better than 250 watts". FreeNAS has the ability for cron jobs, so you could have it shut down itself, or you could script it from another station, or just power off manually from the console or the WWW admin page. </ital> Great article! I’m curious about a couple of things:

1) How do you have this connected to your network? I am considering a NAS type unit, but want to use it with a Squeezebox…so I may want to tuck this into a closet or basement and use a wireless network card.

2) Any recommendations for a low-power-consuming system? I notice (elsewhere) that you mentioned it consumed only about 50 watts. I do not want this to run 24/7, but I also don’t want it to soak up a lot of power.

Admin Replies: It’s connected via Cat5 Ethernet, but I see that there are provisions for wireless. I plan on having it running 24/7 except when we’re on vacation, so I look at it as “50 watts is a lot better than 250 watts”. FreeNAS has the ability for cron jobs, so you could have it shut down itself, or you could script it from another station, or just power off manually from the console or the WWW admin page.

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9681 admin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:13:22 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9681 Power Usage: Amazingly, this box only draws 50 watts when (mostly) idle, and 70 watts during heavy use. Disk temps run about 31c on the seagate 750s, but that's with a 90mm fan blowing directly on them (but that counts towards the power usage). I'm VERY happy. Once I get the XP server shut down, I should have about an hour of runtime on the UPS. Which is good, as FreeNAS doesn't have the APCUPSD demon (UPS monitoring/shutdown). Power Usage: Amazingly, this box only draws 50 watts when (mostly) idle, and 70 watts during heavy use. Disk temps run about 31c on the seagate 750s, but that’s with a 90mm fan blowing directly on them (but that counts towards the power usage). I’m VERY happy. Once I get the XP server shut down, I should have about an hour of runtime on the UPS. Which is good, as FreeNAS doesn’t have the APCUPSD demon (UPS monitoring/shutdown).

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9680 admin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:09:09 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9680 Update: Software Mirroring is going well, and we're moved onto the new server. I added another drive, a 200GB IDE that will be used for occasionally backing up important files from the miror set, so that I have another copy. I'll use the local rsync feature of FreeNAS to sync certain directories to the backup disk. Update: Software Mirroring is going well, and we’re moved onto the new server. I added another drive, a 200GB IDE that will be used for occasionally backing up important files from the miror set, so that I have another copy. I’ll use the local rsync feature of FreeNAS to sync certain directories to the backup disk.

]]> Comment on My FreeNAS Experience by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9613 admin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:34:49 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9613 Update: I have switched to software RAID mirroring. I followed the writeup in the wiki, and it seems to be working. Why do this??? I powered off one of the disks to see how the system would tolerate it. The raid controller failed (in my opinion) to keep the system running. The volume was inaccessible, and a reboot was required. In the bootup, the raid intervened and allowed me to continue to boot with the crippled mirror and it worked... But then I rebooted and tried to add the disk back in. The Raid wanted to sync it back up... sounded good, right? RED SCREEN. It flashed "duplicating..." for a second, then RED SCREEN. I tried several times. I couldn't get it to add the other disk back in. I gave up. The software mirroring seems to work, but I'll test more before relying on this in production. One benefit of software raid is that the S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring works now. It can, for example, show me the disk temperature of each drive, in the web panel. Update: I have switched to software RAID mirroring. I followed the writeup in the wiki, and it seems to be working. Why do this??? I powered off one of the disks to see how the system would tolerate it. The raid controller failed (in my opinion) to keep the system running. The volume was inaccessible, and a reboot was required. In the bootup, the raid intervened and allowed me to continue to boot with the crippled mirror and it worked… But then I rebooted and tried to add the disk back in. The Raid wanted to sync it back up… sounded good, right? RED SCREEN. It flashed “duplicating…” for a second, then RED SCREEN. I tried several times. I couldn’t get it to add the other disk back in. I gave up. The software mirroring seems to work, but I’ll test more before relying on this in production. One benefit of software raid is that the S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring works now. It can, for example, show me the disk temperature of each drive, in the web panel.

]]> Comment on Deleting the Clipboard Is Easy by admin http://www.clipboardextender.com/general-clipboard-use/deleting-the-clipboard-is-easy#comment-9232 admin Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:19:54 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/general-clipboard-use/deleting-the-clipboard-is-easy#comment-9232 If you have Vista, there's a very cool trick. Vista includes a command-line program called "clip", which can write "DOS" output to the clipboard. I found this suggestion by Mark L. Ferguson on this forum: http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-vista/214995-clearing-clipboard.html Here's his suggestion: Create a shortcut with the command : cmd /c "echo off | clip" If you have Vista, there’s a very cool trick. Vista includes a command-line program called “clip”, which can write “DOS” output to the clipboard.
I found this suggestion by Mark L. Ferguson on this forum:
http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-vista/214995-clearing-clipboard.html
Here’s his suggestion:
Create a shortcut with the command :
cmd /c “echo off | clip”

]]> Comment on Vista Program Files Hide and Seek by XianHan http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/vista-program-files-hide-and-seek#comment-8707 XianHan Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:49:10 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/vista-program-files-hide-and-seek#comment-8707 This is the single most useful answer to a problem i have been having with Vista. Thanks! This is the single most useful answer to a problem i have been having with Vista. Thanks!

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