QuoteFerdinand Minivans, SUVs, pickup trucks, station wagons, etc are all fine to use occasionally as an appliance. They fit a niche and do a job. But a little part of you dies each day if you are stuck driving one full-time. I have to call foul on the station wagon comment... I could drive our E46 wagon full-time and be very happy. I'd be happier if I could have found a RWD version wheby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
It is Long Island, after all. The summer people are the ones with NO accent.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Good luck, Rick! Hope that new boat doesn't take a tree branch or anything. We are hopefully far enough inland that if we do see anything, it will likely just be on the order of a heavy rainstorm. But we'll see. I have tickets to Sunday's Red Sox game... not sure if that will be happening or not.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
I still have to figure out how to get the shared folders to stay shared. They don't remember that they're shared after I power off and back on. It's probably something else really easy, but I haven't gotten there yet.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Sounds like a great time. I'll mentally wave to you as you eventually drift back south through my latitude. Bats are good, they eat tons of mosquitoes. Live and let live, my friend.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
QuoteErnest If you really want to dual-boot with Windows and Ubuntu, you'll have to install Windows first so that you don't break the bootloader. Goodluck Cab and let us know how it goes. If you need anything, send me a Buzz. I don't want to dual-boot. I am just running Win7 on the one machine, and Ubuntu on the other (file server). It's working today, and yes, it reby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
I tried the grub reloader trick, it didn't work. But I went in and reformatted the HDD again, this time NOT doing a "quick format," and then reloaded Ubuntu. It is working now, it booted from the hard drive, and is uploading updates right now. Now that the system seems to be running, I hope to have the file sharing working this weekend. But for now, it's bedtime. Baby steby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Thanks, I'll try that. Not sure when I'll have the time to work on it again, this weekend at the latest, but hopefully tonight. I don't really understand how XP could have corrupted this, because the HDD in question has been formatted since I tried to install XP, and grub is loaded on Ubuntu install. But anyway, I have a couple of things in mind to try, I'd really like toby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
I'm sorry, I didn't have time to watch all the videos, but is that the road in Norway that I've seen in Ove's posts in the past? Looks very cool.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
QuoteErnest Oh by the way, what file system format is your shared drive? The drives I plan to share are NTFS. So, my problem as of last night appears to be hardware-related, or at least that's what it seems. I formatted and started over installing Ubuntu on my 250GB drive. It went through the whole process, got to the end and said "restart computer to boot in Ubuntu." I resby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
My understanding after reading the tutorials on the ubuntu site had been that once I used the "sudo" command to get and install samba, then I could just open and edit the smb.conf file. It did not say that I had to use "sudo" to open the config file. I'm sure that this is at least part of my problem. But... as you indicated, and another friend of mine sent me a link toby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
QuoteErnest By the way, if you are using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, I had to do this for the Windows computers to see my shares: Open a terminal and type "sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf" If you don't have a GUI installed (server edition) type "sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf" then press enter. You will see a configuration file. Find the line that says: # What naming servicby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Quoterkj I think I've got it; the computer downstairs is the sever and it will be linked up to the main computer upstairs (but how is that link-up done) so you don't have to burden it with all that info, making it slower. That's about it, yes? It's not just slowing it down with all that data, it's simply the amount of storage space. My new "main" computer hasby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Quoterkj How do your two computers talk to each other, wireless, hardwired, magic? I'm working on the magic, but it's not been successful as of yet. So until I get that down, they're hardwired to each other by virtue of both being plugged into the same router. Now I need to make sure I understand how to get them to "see" each other. Ernest's tips he sent me yeby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
I have one. That's not the answer I'm looking for, though. I would like, ideally, to maintain constant access to multiple HDDs of files without having to swap them in and out of the external enclosure. Ernest gave me some links that hopefully will help and get me to where I think I want to go. I'll beat this thing one of these days.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Hey Ernest, I saw your response, and hopefully it will help, when i get back home and have a chance to try it. I was successfully getting the OS installed, I just had no luck sharing the hard drives on that machine to the Win7 machine... I'll try again. I'm not giving up on this until one of us kills the other. B) Thanks!by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Quotejaffar hi first, please excuse me because i did not read all the above - i am after vacation and pretty tired, drove 7410km second - i saw something about using a backup disc instead of a mirror system - with linux you can easily configure mirroring. third, in 2 weeks i made 145gb of photos and movies, so 500gb might not be enough for 3 years I'm sure with Linux one can do manyby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Update time: (Skip to the penultimate paragraph for a quick synopsis, but I warn you, you'll miss all the fun we have in the journey. o ) I received and installed the new motherboard. I was then able to install Ubuntu with very little drama. I'm thinking that the disk controller on the old one is kaput, but that's already filed in the "don't care" folder.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Not necessarily "unlimited" storage, but here's the basic deal. I have several hard drives that are either full of data, or I am in process of filling them up. As you shoot more and more photos, you need a place to store them. There's only so much room on any one computer or hard drive. What I have been using is a machine that I built a few years back (you may remember tby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
The saga continues, AKA I just can't get a break... Short version: I ordered a new motherboard last night, should have it in a couple of days and have the server set up shortly thereafter. Long version:: After reading up on installation packages, considering my needs, etc, I decided that running Ubuntu Server with the Samba package was going to be perfect for me. Server is leaneby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Sounds good, Archie. I'm downloading Ubuntu Server right now, and I'll see if I can find time tonight to install it. Reading the instructions online makes it seem ridiculously easy, I am finding it hard to believe that it could possibly be as easy as it seems. If it is, I'll be a super happy camper. Yes, when I checked out the c: drive with the external enclosure, all the datby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
The new machine isn't a server, just a small form factor PC that is replacing our old WinXP machine. I don't think I have anything wrong with the hardware on the old machine, and I'm definitely not getting rid of it. I did wonder if perhaps I had overloaded my power supply when I added in the two new HDDs, but the BIOS voltage monitors seem to be fine. Anyway, I'm going toby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Massachusetts can't really be defined with a single "registration" fee. Technically the true registration fee (keeping the plates current) is something like $50 for two years. But we have a mandatory $29/yr inspection, during which they plug in the OBD reader, kick the tires, and check the headlights. Then we have to pay an "excise tax" yearly to the town in which theby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
For a while now I've been toying with the idea of using a somewhat leaner (physically, at least) computer as our "main" machine and building a file server to handle the storage. We/I have been shooting a lot of photos, and at 12-15MB per shot, the volume is building pretty steadily. I currently have 250GB, 400GB, and 2x 500GB HDDs installed. The twin 500GB are my newest, and theby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Quoterkj Quotealanrw It was 102 yesterday in SoCal. so I guess summer is here. alan It's been hot here too, on the east coast (usa). The dew point is the icing on the cake for us older guys Rick Younger guys, too. This stickiness just plain sucks. Most summers, we'll get humid stretches that last for a few days to maybe a week. The one we're stuck in now has been goinby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
QuoteArcheo-peteriX I want to see executions! Jeez, just another bloodthirsty Canadian.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Thanks, everyone! He's a real cutie and a very good boy (so far). Sleeping and eating well, and we're gradually developing a new rhythm in our household. No more little ones for us, and we are thrilled with the two we have. We couldn't have asked for better. QuoteJose Pinto He came to balance things a bit, or you would be outnumbered by your female family members. That isby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Hi all, My interwebs time has been kind of sketchy lately, so for those of you who are not on Facebook and haven't heard/seen, last Tuesday we welcomed Spencer Allen into the family. He's doing great, Mom is recovering from the c-section slowly but surely, and Katelyn loves being a big sister (although it seems we're doing nothing but telling her "no" these days... hby Cab Treadway - Community Forum
Daniel just bought one... I don't know any E39 forums, but Peter's suggestion is good. That's where my E46 forum is.by Cab Treadway - Community Forum
QuoteArcheo-peteriX We have also excluded the Mazda 3. It drives nice and has good power but there is so much cheap plastic and other aesthetics compared to Toyota or Honda that we just didn't feel like we would be getting value for the money. Also, the Mazda 3(2007 fully equipped model) was noisier on the road than our existing Civic That's too bad. I really like my Mazda. I havenby Cab Treadway - Community Forum