Read the rest of this entry »Normally, only the root user is allowed to open ports below 1024.
That’s why, if you try running an application as a normal (non-root) user, and that application tries to open a port below 1024, you’ll get an error (access denied most likely).If you’re running Fedora (and that would probably work on other distros too), there’s a command you can run, as root, that will allow such programs to open any of those ports, even if they’re run by a regular user.
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Allowing programs run by regular users to open ports below 1024
Friday, May 14th, 2010Videos5 – A web application to stream videos to your iPad (and all)
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »The iPad is now very popular in the house.
I seldom can use it as a recipe book to cook something, as it was intended… It’s either in my oldest’s hands, playing Labyrinth 2 HD, either on my wife’s lap, browsing her Facebook & reading her emails.But still, sometimes, it’s nice to use it for other things.
One such other thing would be to stream videos from the Amahi home server sitting in a closet upstairs.
One can watch a recorded TV show in bed, or hand the iPad to the big kid to let him watch Cars or Nemo while we’re watching the news, or something non kid-friendly.Being of the DIY kind, I made my own web-app to achieve this, using the new HTML5 videos tag.
Greyhole: How cool is that?
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »Not long ago, a 1 TB hard drive that was part of my storage pool died (my fault really, handling it while it was powered up). Greyhole handled this beautifully, re-creating duplicate copies of the files that were stored on that drive to continue protecting all my data. But I didn’t have enough free space on the other drives to allow all the duplicates I want to be created.
Perfect timing to test a very nice feature of Greyhole: inclusion of remote hard drives in the storage pool.
Greyhole – Easily expandable & redundant storage pool using Samba
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they’re connected), and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
How I plan to implement my own WHS Drive Extender-like system [UPDATED]
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »I do like Windows Home Server Drive Extender technology. It allows oneself to aggregate a bunch of various-sized hard disks into one big storage pool. You can then define a number of shares that will share (!) that storage pool dynamically. And you can define which shares you want duplicated, which basically mean that DE (Drive Extender) will make sure that all the files on there are on two different physical hard drives, to safeguard those files against hardware failures.
I’ve been searching for quite a while to find a similar system that would fit my needs, and never found one. Then yesterday, I had an idea on how I could implement such a system myself.
Review of CrashPlan: Multi-platform backup solution for everyone
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Read the rest of this entry »CrashPlan, it’s a remote backup solution for (almost) everyone.
The principle is easy enough: install the software client (available for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux), change the default selection of files that will be backed up (if you want to) and you’re on your way to never loose a file again!
