On 17/12/10 17:16, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 17/12/10 17:01, Mark Fraser wrote:
>> I'm thinking about building a server too and one of the things I wanted
>> it for was a caching apt proxy. There seem to be a few ways of doing
>> this though, which is the best of the lot?
> http://askubuntu.com/
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 21:13 +, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> The latest thing I have installed on my home server is byobu
> https://launchpad.net/byobu
> I have used screen many times but not really hard. This makes using
> screen even simpler.
I was quite interested to notice that in Maverick, at le
On 17 December 2010 15:55, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hullo!
>
> I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB
> RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise)
>
> One of these things:-
>
> http://popey.me/dNBjHT
>
> (112 quid once you get the cash back)
Nice!
>
> Mailserver:- Postfix
> W
On 17/12/10 17:01, Mark Fraser wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about building a server too and one of the things I wanted
> it for was a caching apt proxy. There seem to be a few ways of doing
> this though, which is the best of the lot?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/3503/best-way-to-cache-apt-downloads-
On Friday 17 Dec 2010 16:35:00 Alan Pope wrote:
> On 17 December 2010 16:32, Matthew Wild wrote:
> > XMPP server:- Prosody :)
> > Why: Local secure IM and chatrooms, with various fun features.
>
> That sounds fun! Kids would like that too.
>
> > Caching APT proxy:- ???
> > I haven't tried th
On 17/12/10 15:55, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> I have some idea what I'd use, but wonder what selections people would
> make, and maybe what additional things you'd do with such a box? I
> don't want to get into religious debates about which mail server is
> best, just what you'd choose and maybe why.
Ze
On 17 December 2010 16:35, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 17 December 2010 16:26, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> > Media server - it depends on what's going to be at the other end: for
> other
> > computers try Firefly Media Server (might be in the repo as mt-daapd). It
> > shares media over DAAP, which is the
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Vinothan Shankar wrote:
>> Mailserver:- Postfix
> Do you intend to do IMAP or POP3? If so, I prefer Dovecot over cyrus,
> but that's a personal quirk.
IMAP probably. I have used dovecot and cyrus in the past, I personally
have no affinity to either :) But I do recall o
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> Media server - it depends on what's going to be at the other end: for other
> computers try Firefly Media Server (might be in the repo as mt-daapd). It
> shares media over DAAP, which is the sharing protocol in iTunes. It works
> with said iTunes
On 17 December 2010 16:32, Matthew Wild wrote:
> XMPP server:- Prosody :)
> Why: Local secure IM and chatrooms, with various fun features.
That sounds fun! Kids would like that too.
> Caching APT proxy:- ???
> I haven't tried this, but given that I have bandwidth caps and
> several Ubuntu PC
On 17 December 2010 15:55, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hullo!
>
> I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB
> RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise)
>
> One of these things:-
>
> http://popey.me/dNBjHT
>
> (112 quid once you get the cash back)
>
> Anyway, I was thinking of making
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:55 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little "home office" server with
> a few roles (listed below). It's for play initially, imagine an office
> of 5 people or so, doing typical file etc sharing, but as it's in the
> home, maybe chuck a couple
On 17 December 2010 15:55, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hullo!
>
> I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB
> RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise)
>
> One of these things:-
>
> http://popey.me/dNBjHT
>
> (112 quid once you get the cash back)
>
> Anyway, I was thinking of makin
Hullo!
I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB
RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise)
One of these things:-
http://popey.me/dNBjHT
(112 quid once you get the cash back)
Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little "home office" server with
a few roles (listed below
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