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Enabling SSH on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220

I recently acquired a 6 TB Seagate NAS drive which I am using for nightly backups of my servers, as well as snapshots of several Dropbox accounts. While the web interface on the device isn’t too bad, I wanted a little more control over it, as well as the ability to monitor the device’s health with some custom munin graphs. Here’s how to enable SSH without wiping the drive and installing...

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Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics

Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones...

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How to back up Dropbox automatically – daily, weekly, monthly snapshots

Dropbox is great. Most of the time. It’s great when I need to easily share files with people while working on a project together. It keeps files in sync between multiple computers, and is the only solution I’ve found so far which works seamlessly and instantaneously. If you don’t already use it, I highly recommend it. Dropbox - Online file backup and sharing I’ve recently been...

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Linux Software RAID and LVM

I wanted to create a RAID 5 array with four 1tb drives. I only have three, but I have a 750gb and 320gb drive lying around. I figured there was probably a way to combine them into a 1tb drive that I could use with the others. Using Linux’s LVM, I can create a logical partition from the two smaller drives as big as the 1tb drive. $ pvdisplay Lists all physical volumes managed by LVM. First we have...

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Workaround for Comcast blocking port 25

Comcast just started blocking port 25 outgoing. I have several computers at home configured to send email reports of cron jobs. Of course they do this by trying to send mail on port 25 from inside the house to my mail server outside. Now that Comcast is blocking that, I need some other way for my emails to be delivered. The easiest solution I could come up with was to tell my mail server to listen on...