I only partition my disks using LVM anymore because it's easier to manage multiple physical disks. Something linux has always done, and windows has more recently figured out, has been to let you mount drives as a folder. In the *nix world, this is obvious because everything is…
I was trying to enable e-mail reporting from a Metropolis ProfitWatch Call Accounting System yesterday, but hit a couple hurdles. First, the ISP didn't provide an e-mail relay service. Second, it seems the metropolis has a very simplistic e-mail client implementation and doesn't appear to accept…
I don't like being prompted for passwords every time I turn around. I log into my desktop from which I adminster a lot of systems. The last thing I want is to get double authentication prompts on every system I touch (once to login and again to sudo)…
I have a media center PC running mythbuntu with plexmediaserver. This is only because it was originally mythbuntu, but I have since come to prefer plex and I'm too lazy to reinstall it as straight ubuntu. Recently I tried to upgrade it, but ran into a problem: Preparing…