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I can use Microsoft Windows OS and make One disk as shared disk. Anyone within the Network can access to that. Instead of that i can use FreeNAS and make Network Attached Storage for my network. Apple Windows or Linux can access this storage. that is OK. but what are the benefits of using NAS ?
Benefits of using NAS are:-
Add capacity in an affordable way
Store and access files from any PC or Mac computer using your
existing network, eliminating the need for multiple hard drives
Share capacity with other parties (suppliers, customers)
Offer full-proof (RAID) central back up, which can be automated, for
extra data protection
Share a USB printer across your network
Automatically and continuously backup your data to give you peace of
mind that all of our files are safe and secure
Check out this link:- http://www.inc.com/articles/201107/benefits-of-network-attached-storage-and-how-to-set-one-up.html
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I am trying to write a USB device driver for Raspberry Pi board (practising on my Ubuntu desktop first).
Whenever two flash drives are inserted, data from second will automatically be copied into the first flash drive.
Whenever a flash drive and a printer are connected, the contents of files in a specific PRINT folder in the flash drive will be automatically printed.
1) Is this entirely feasible ?
I have written a small driver which is able to register my Transcend pen drive.
While reading through Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition (3rd chapter), I understood that file operations that are required for USB data transfer should be requested from the user space only and that they cannot be done from kernel space (ie. from inside my module/driver)
2) Is my understanding correct ? (If it is, then this project becomes impossible..)
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I wrote my first web app using Sinatra. It's pretty simple with a REST interface. I am running MySQL database and it connects to it using active record, very cool stuff. Also, I am running another ruby program which basically queries the MySQL database every 30 seconds and does some work on the data and updates the db.
Right now, I am running sinatra app on my laptop. I want to move this to a server because i can't keep my laptop on all the time.
I checked out Amazon EC2 and there's so many options that I am over whelmed. Is Amazon EC2 even a good choice? Is so, what option is best for me? I am not expecting any bandwidth.
Any pointers for someone starting with webservers/hosting would be great, Thanks!
Well there's a free micro instance for new customers so that seems like the logical place to start. If it's not enough you can consider upgrading, look at the reserved/on demand pricing and make an informed decision at that point.
Have you looked at hosting with companies such as Heroku and AppFog?
They both offer free plans so you can give them a go before upgrading, or you may find the free plan is enough.
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Can I create a custom operating system that supports both Windows and Linux applications?
How can I do that and what knowledge should I have?
Is this a good start?
Thanks.
This can kind of be done though using Linux and Wine however it is not perfect.
The issue is Windows is not open source and is VERY big so it is not very easy to perfectly emulate what that operating system is doing behind the scenes. This is especially hard with undocumented API calls many programs like to use on Windows.
I do not know of anything that lets you run Mac on Linix without using a VM.
It is very unlikely there will ever be "one OS to rule them all" but with tools like Wine and using virtualization with things like VMWare's Unity Mode to give the affect of another OS's program running on your system.
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Closed 9 years ago.
The company I work for currently uses "Go To Meeting" to share our desktops but it's quite expensive for what we use it for and we are looking for cheaper (or even free) alternatives.
We have evaluated yuuguu and yugma but they aren't up to scratch. They are both slow and only allow the sharers to share the entire desktop as opposed to individual applications.
The functionality we need is to specify which application is shared and also to give the viewers permission to control the mouse and keyboard. Everything else would be an added bonus.
Thanks.
I use CrossLoop and it works well, it is free!
I use LogmeIn and Hamachi, for remote desktop and VPN solutions. They have free and paid plans.
thanks for the help. None of the options provided were what we were looking for. We are going to try Microsoft SharedView, seems to have the functionality we require:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=95AF94BA-755E-4039-9038-63005EE9D33A&displaylang=en
Remobo works quite well too
All network traffic in Remobo are end-to-end encrypted with 256-bit AES algorithm, and only the chart participants have the keys to decrypt the message. Plus, Remobo's file transfer is fast & safe, because all computers in a Remobo User's Instant Private Network (IPN) have direct network connections to each other; messages are relayed via Servers from Remobo.com only if direct connection cannot be established.
It NOT require any configuration on any of your existing networking devices, and you do not need to add any new hardware devices into your network to run Remobo
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Closed 11 years ago.
I am currently working on software that must emit SNMP traps for SNMP versions 1 & 2 and possibly v3 in the future. I have downloaded several and found them to be either too complex or too simplistic. All I want is to view traps and analyze the data structures within them, and the ability to import my custom MIB's. The best I have found so far is ireasonings MIB Browser, but would be greatful for any nice alternatives.
netsnmp - should do everything you're after, with a variety of language bindings to suit every taste.
The only monitoring tools I've used that utilize SNMP monitoring are Nagios, Zenoss, OpenNMS, and the proprietary product from my company - but they're for full network monitoring.
How many devices are you looking to monitor? If it's only a couple, #Andrew's suggestion of netsnmp may be sufficient.