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- mymoustache, on 02/01/2008, -0/+67Where's the rest of the article?
- donnikhan, on 02/01/2008, -6/+63OH ***** HE INVENTED A NEW NUMBER
ALL HAIL THE NUMBER "THRE" - chuckeroo, on 02/01/2008, -1/+43Build a cheap hydrogen powered sports car in 3 easy steps!
1. Grab an old car you have lying around
2. Make a few upgrades
3. Drive away!
Worst article ever. - sirhomer, on 02/01/2008, -1/+35http://www.ubuntuhomeserver.org/ is an attempt to make a Ubuntu server edition targeted towards home use. They need some more developers and testers though so if you want to help it would be well .. helpful.
If you have some experience though with Linux and the command line, setting up the vanilla Ubuntu server or pretty much any distro to do file serving and backups is rather trivial, and incremental backups will work on any operating system (WHS currently works with Windows XP/Vista 32-bit). It is also possible to do so with a low power hardware so your server will consume less power (and cause less pollution, if you care). - inactive, on 02/01/2008, -1/+33Three easy steps? The only thing they told us was give your computer basic upgrades and that it's harder to do with Ubuntu...I was looking for a bit more information than that.
- cidman2001, on 02/01/2008, -0/+25That was one stupid and uninformative article....I learned absolutely zero about exactly how to do this. How can you claim to build a server in three easy steps? 1) Look Under the Hood... 2) Make a Few Upgrades....3) Maximize Your Storage... I now know everything there is about building my own server! I'm pretty sure some tips about setting up Linux would have been more useful than reminding me to blow out the dust bunnies with compressed air!
- Y0tsuya, on 02/01/2008, -1/+18If you don't want to lose those media files you spent so much time collecting, consider investing in a RAID5 array.
- jemka, on 02/01/2008, -3/+19Everything is. This is DIY, if you don't want to do it yourself or think it's too hard, then you'll pay extra for what you want. Always.
- nick9000, on 02/01/2008, -2/+16thre = 0.281718171540955... (3-2.71828 18284 59045...)
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -1/+15The only thing it rules over is your pocket retard.
- dragonlink2, on 02/01/2008, -3/+17Three*
- troye, on 02/01/2008, -0/+12You're missing the point here.
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -0/+11Ok so they show you how to build a computer, and then the server part?? *looks around*
- schestowitz, on 02/01/2008, -6/+16You can buy pre-made media servers. In the case of Linux, it's quite inexpensive, too.
- rusty0101, on 02/01/2008, -3/+13I've honestly had fewer problems installing video cards into Linux than Windows. Hunting down drivers has only been a problem when trying to get ATI cards to work. As a result I don't buy ATI cards. That may change in the next year, but compared to getting windows to use a new video card (delete the old drivers, power down, swap video cards, boot up, tell windows where the new drivers are...) is hardly 'plug it in and it works out of the box.'
- salvadorwii, on 02/01/2008, -0/+10thats the step number fhor
- thetestament, on 02/01/2008, -0/+10He says to use "the old PC lying around in your closet" with at least a P4...I don't know about everyone else, but my main desktop still has a P4 and all my old stuff is random Dell Opterons and whatnot with P2's and P3's....
- zmjone2992, on 02/01/2008, -0/+10Nice job submitting a ***** Popular Mechanics article. Written for people that don't know anything about computer hardware...
- nokia123, on 02/01/2008, -14/+23haha easier said than done
- pendrachken, on 02/01/2008, -2/+10what are you smoking? It is actually EASIER to install graphics drivers in a modern Linux distro now than it is to install the windows drivers.
Hell, it's easier to install the drivers on linux even if you don''t have a CD burner. You don't even have to go to your graphics card vendors website even. just open up your package manager ( which will update your drivers automatically once they are install...keeping you up to date I might add) and install the drivers.
and this is assuming that something like restricted driver manager isn't being used, if it IS being used it's click a balloon and click "USE restricted drivers"
PLUS we linux users don't even have to reboot after installing / updating a graphics driver... - pendrachken, on 02/01/2008, -0/+8yes, restart X is what I meant. you don't have to shut the kernel down like in windows though. It saves even more time that way, since you don't have to wait for the computer to shutdown and reboot. restarting X takes all of what 3-4 seconds tops?
- Tiak, on 02/01/2008, -0/+8I originally missread the article and didn't want to click it... Three steps was too much for me... But I Thre is quite obviously less than three, so I gave the article a look.
- Awperator, on 02/01/2008, -1/+9Easier, yes. Better? No. I spent a while configuring my mythbuntu media center, and it's leaps and bounds better than what I had to hack together from WMC or Vista to get to work. Best part? It's free and it will only get better and better as time comes 'round. Have a problem with your ATI drivers? Just use envy.
- ThinkBox, on 02/01/2008, -2/+9That photo doesn't translate to "easy" for most users, but there are a lot of people that could use this tutorial. So far 80 people could, and even though I'm not one of them, but lets hope it front pages and they are made aware.
Dugg - jiggawhat, on 02/01/2008, -3/+10First off, linux isnt exactly the most difficult thing int he world to use anymore. To get a functional system its the exact same task as it is in windows. To get it to do exactly what you want, there are step by step howtos everywhere for about everything. I kind of miss the days when people who wanted to do things with computers weren't afraid of actually learning something.
Second off, ubuntu isnt the only distribution around, and its certainly not the best for all purposes. Amongst linux users i know, its considered 'the vista of the linux world'. Expand your horizons, which I know is hard to do around Digg, since most people here put Ubuntu up on that pedestal with Steve Jobs and Ron Paul. - Classicgamer, on 02/01/2008, -0/+7RAID, just RAID. Not, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks Array
- mtruth, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6That was my thought. Just having the hardware is the first step, installing the software and configuring it correctly are missing. Or I really missed something in that article.
- photohunter, on 02/01/2008, -2/+8It makes you wonder how much of the cost of most home servers is just the operating system?
- rusty0101, on 02/01/2008, -1/+7Actually, consider making regular backups, and setting up some sort of off site storage. RAID5 sounds good, but all to often when one drive in the array fails, other drives are in a precarious position as well. At least with good backups you can restore to new hardware. If multiple drives in your RAID5 array fail, especially when rebuilding across a drive you've replaced, you're just as out of luck as if you had just 1 drive in use.
- CaptO, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6I'm a mac user too, but people like you make us look bad. The blatant fanboyism of a small section of the community makes the community as a whole look like asshats.
I believe in the best tool for the job. My laptop is a MacBook Pro, my file/media server is running vista ultimate (for serving up to the Xbox 360 with Media Center Extender) and my webserver is linux. - ours, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6Yeah, lame article.
- slasc, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6Honestly, I have MythTV running just fine on a Ubuntu 7.04 system. Almost vanilla install. (I only had extra steps trying to make it work with my silly Time Warner DCT-6200 firewire.... it used to work fine, but Time Warner / Motorola updated the firmware, and now it won't initialize properly....)
When setting up a TV card in there, it was actually easier than my experiences with Windows Media Server.... - analogkid, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6Here is a much better article on the subject... with real instructions: http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/06/05/build_your ...
- bbqsalad, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6BUILD MY ASS IN THRE!
- jhaks, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5Windows Home Server abstracts away the hard drives and instead shows you a pool of storage. For redundancy you just pick what data you want to make redundant; it then makes sure that the data is on at least two drives. The advantage of this is that you can keep adding storage to the machine without worrying about redundancy or sorting your files between the drives. The other advantage WHS has is that when making backups of Windows machines it only stores a single instance of the same data from multiple machines. Since Windows machines share a lot of files in common the amount of actual storage needed to backup multiple machines is not that much.
- GuyHitByTruck, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5Is there a "next page" button that I missed somewhere? I seem to have learned surprisingly little from this article.
- kiwimonk, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5I just did this.. $50 new celeron (fast/low power), $50 referb motherboard, $50 Ram, and $50 Power Supply.. Runs Suse 10.3.
Two separate software raid 5 arrays. Running linux on a separate server box is nice for a few reasons... You can still muck with it, but when you need windows for all those games.. No reboot.. and you can run your linux X11 programs over SSH on your windows machine. I could never get myself to stick with linux full time for my main machine, so this way I get the best of both. - hadak, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5Nobody likes your spam.
- SteveyDevey, on 02/01/2008, -0/+5It's even worse to have to waste your time fighting with software you had to pay for.
- inactive, on 02/01/2008, -1/+6Yeah, I setup Ubuntu Server on an old 900mhz 256MB 15GB HD computer. It'll automatically install and configure Samba, Open SSH, PostGRE, LAMP, DNS server, and I also think an email and printer server too. Works like a charm and with very little configuration, I got my own web server up and running within a 1/2 hour or so.
- tacom8, on 02/01/2008, -2/+7i've given linux a try more then a number of times, and have ended up disappointed every time. But i decided to give it one last try on an old pc that was destined to be a server, before reinstalling windows on it...
I will tip my hat to mythbuntu... easy to setup, with the bare essentials pre-installed. I got samba, upnp setup in a heartbeat and have the myth back end setup now. Managing it is easy with a VNC client from my main windows machine too.
could you do all this with a windows machine? sure and it would probably be easier in the long run, but its totally worth at least trying out for a week or two if you got a drive you can use. But i think i'm going to keep linux on this one, it seems to be doing the trick. - squelart, on 02/01/2008, -0/+4How about FreeNAS? http://www.freenas.org
- vibrokatana, on 02/01/2008, -3/+7Updating a video driver in vista:
1) Downloading the right driver (most users cant figure this stage out)
2) Uninstalling the old driver
3) Rebooting
4) Installing the new driver
5) Rebooting
Updating a driver in linux:
1) Package manager installs driver
2) Whenever you restart X it is loaded
Updating a driver in OSX:
1) Gets updated with the system periodically via apples software update
2) User reboots
Which would you prefer? - ours, on 02/01/2008, -0/+4And they don't even say it correctly "thre easy steps"...
- lynx44, on 02/01/2008, -0/+3Myth can definitely be a pain to set up, but there are a couple of key features (among many smaller ones) that IMO kill media center: QAM support and the ability to run multiple frontends and backends on different machines. It still boggles my mind that you can't connect to another Vista box to share videos and tuners (there are a few media extenders and the 360 that can do it, but why can't I just use another PC?), and QAM support is just ridiculous because it clearly can be done since there are hacks to make it work, but for some reason MS refuses to support it.
The only advantages I can see with MCE is the simple installation (which was a pain the first time I tried it, but a breeze the second time) and a nicer GUI - which doesn't matter much to me, but it doesn't look too impressive to my non-tech friends. - marx2k, on 02/01/2008, -0/+31. Grab an old car you have lying around
2.????
3. Drive away! - vibrokatana, on 02/01/2008, -1/+4I am actually lazy so I use mplayer to play /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 which are the streams from my tv tuner. Installation was pretty much just loading the driver in with the package manager and it was done. At least the card actually WORKS compared to windows xp which does funky things when the driver gets loaded.
- dhughes, on 02/01/2008, -0/+3 It's tempting to pack a bunch of hard drives in an old computer but you really have to be careful about heat, I learned the hard way you have to leave a big gap between drives and fans on them.
There's no point in having all your stuff in a media server only to lose it due to a drive failing do to heat. - smrekar, on 02/01/2008, -1/+4this article sux!
- lateralus, on 02/01/2008, -0/+3The missing option: nanobots that autonomously create custom drivers and relieve the system of cache coherency issues when idle. Don't ask me how, i don't have time to explain.
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