Comments on: Ubuntu Server: Why you want one and how to do it.

By: James Cartwright

James Cartwright — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:37:43 +0000

Farts and Dingbats……

By: BigM

BigM — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:48:55 +0000

I’m coming way late to the conversation (just found this article via a Google search, although I’m a long time reader of several SB blogs), but I wanted to chime in that I just set up an Ubuntu server. It’s a good use for an old computer, which you probably can’t sell on Craigslist (because there are way more sellers than buyers, in my experience) and will probably just end up filling up a landfill.

Without a GUI, you can run Ubuntu Server on 128 MB of RAM, making even a 10 year old computer useful (once again). And you don’t even need a monitor after the initial installation, since you can administer the whole thing remotely with ssh.

And if you don’t have an old computer sitting around, you can buy one for under $100 from the surplus on Craigslist, and keep one of THOSE computers from ending up in a landfill.

By: Agencja Reklamowa

Agencja Reklamowa — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:47:49 +0000

Great article. I will use it and try to install my first server. I hope it goes nice and smooth but I doubt that. We will see.

By: megan

megan — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:59:23 +0000

Ooo, Linux newbies pissing over themselves in joy now that there are Linux OPs out for idiots to escape Windoz hell.

By: seviÅ?me

seviÅ?me — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:04:04 +0000

Indeed, I think that may be the case, given the rest of the ignorant blather in his arguments for Daniel. Again, if this was the quality of the case he presented, no wonder he lost and lost big. Perhaps Danny needs a new lawyer, particularly given that his current one actually used as part of his argument to the court such a lame Internet urban legend among the anti-chemotherapy “natural cancer cures” crowd:

By: sikiÅ?

sikiÅ? — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:02:16 +0000

Come to think of it, perhaps Johnson is just a simple country lawyer after all, the operative word being “simple.” Or maybe he just demonstrates the same level of knowledge about cancer and medical science as the “alternative” medicine boosters he represents; i.e., either zero or nothing but gross distortions of real science. Indeed, I think that may be the case, given the rest of the ignorant blather in his arguments for Daniel. Again, if this was the quality of the case he presented, no wonder he lost and lost big. Perhaps Danny needs a new lawyer, particularly given that his current one actually used as part of his argument to the court such a lame Internet urban legend among the anti-chemotherapy “natural cancer cures” crowd:

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:25:00 +0000

Also, if you need more ventilation to the motherboard, go ahead and use an icepick. Be generous with where you put the holes. The more ventilated, the better!

Alternately if you’re a gun owner, you already know how to ventilate things, go ahead and practice that way. I guarantee it’ll consume less power after you’re done!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:03:32 +0000

If you cut half or more of the screen off, say with a chainsaw, and also remove the keyboard, your power consumption will go down and there will be better cooling.

By: Michael Spencer

Michael Spencer — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:02:14 +0000

Oh, Greg.

This linux-fixation is so charmingâ?¦

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:26:34 +0000

To Greg’s point, even if the backlight is off (due to being burnt out), there’s still power going to the laptop. If you have the nerve to disassemble it (not as hard as you’d think), go for it, you’ll probably save about 1/3 of the power consumption it has presently by removing the monitor. As it’s headless anyway, there’s hardly any use for it to have that monitor on, and most monitors treat that laptop monitor port much like a VGA port, not requiring it to be plugged in to turn on and function otherwise normally.