Just installed linux on my pc at home. Thanks to HCH for helping me with the installation and orientating me to the interface. Intending to use it mainly as a server for me to back my data up.
Gotta equip it with and test out the following:
LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, to provide the web serving capabilities, mainly to provide nice interfaces for the data I'd be backing up (e.g gallery2 for pictures)...
Ftp Server (filezilla maybe) - to upload my data for backing up.
Telnet perhaps, so that I can execute commands on the computer remotely.
The kind of data I intend to back up fall mainly under into the following categories:
1) Pictures + clips.
2) Music.
3) Movies + games.
4) other files, like word/excel/pdf documents.
5) Installers - I'll back up the installation files of all the programs that I find reliable on my home computer, so that whenever I reformat my computer, I'll have a one-stop location to download the installers I need. Gotta make a list of programs that serve well. Currently looking for a gif animator, and it's been quite difficult to find a good one, I need flash! Also, just found a good Audio File Converter Program, Switch and wavepad.
Have been using them to work on the webpages I'm mastering... Which has been occupying me since I returned.
CCCF website: changed the banner, added a little icon, changed the music, and now I'm hoping to create a little flash applet to synchronize changing pictures with the music. Did a little javascripting on it.
Temasek website: Touched up the look of the 'latest articles' and 'latest comments' panels, and hoping to touch up on the banner, and the aesthetics of the page in general. Did some MySQLing on it.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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Do not use telnet. Instead, use SSH. Then, you wouldn't need an FTP server either as you can just use SFTP over it.
Roger that, thanks for the advice, managed to connect using ssh and sftp, woohoo!!
Now I just need a convenient way to allow users to upload files onto the computer, without using an ftp server. Or maybe I'll install an ftp server, and only run it when I am expecting people.
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