The time has come to decommission my server for several reasons: 1. Power usage. 2. Not really used to it's full potential. 3. I need the hardware for a W7/8 desktop build for myself. 1&2 come under the same category, if my server was used more then power usage wouldn't be as big an issue. 3 spe...

Hello and welcome.

Ext4 is way faster than NTFS, which is getting a bit long in the tooth now.

Andy

The RPi is now available with 512MB of RAM, should be a lot better for XBMC, I'm now using OpenELEC overclocked to 840MHz as my XBMC distro of choice for the Pi.

Now all I need to do is raid the piggy bank


Andy

Hi Ian.

Erm in a word no.

But I fixed by following this link. post 9.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1769477

Ignore this line

as it should read:



or what I did:



Worked like a charm.

Andy

When I SSH into my server I get this message: *** /dev/sdc1 will be checked for errors at next reboot *** *** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot *** Yet when I have rebooted I still get the same message, is there a way to check for error's while the server is running, Synaptic packa...

Haha snooze you loose mate, I tell you what that pint didn't half hit the spot

Andy

Just as a matter of interest I'm running 12.04LTS on my box and VNC seem's to working fine, although I do suspect if I connected a monitor to it I would be greeted with a desktop instead of a CLI. I can even access the server from my MacBook without having to install a VNC app, I simply enable "...

Hi and welcome.

Ian seem's to be unavailable, so can I have that pint

Andy

Sorry mate I missed this one. I tried updating this way and it bo**ocks'ed everything up and I had to do a clean install, so I upgraded? to 12.04LTS. Not sure if 12.04LTS is an upgrade or not, it kind of reminds of the Vista incident that happened a few years ago, nasty very nasty. BTW you missed a ...

Hi and welcome to forum. I don't use a graphics card in my server and so far I know Ian doesn't, it really isn't necessary to have a graphics card in a headless server, as there is monitor is attached. However I am not sure if mythTV requires such a card, although when I had mythTV installed it neve...