Recently the ratings group Nielsen released data that shows Android now owns 43% of the smartphone OS business with Apple IOS only garnering 28%. No wonder Apple is trying to sue it out of existence. In just 3 short years Google and Android have destroyed their market share, by truly inovating the way people use phones.
I believe that within the next few months, we will see Android continue to grow. Not only in the phone market but also in the tablet market as well.
I have been having a problem with a custom backup solution for a small business server.
I wrote a rule set for udev that recognizes a USB external hard drive. Udev then automatically creates a /dev/backup node for the device. I have the job scheduled with cron to run @ 11pm every day.
The script executes as it should, the drive is mounted on /media/backup, the files are then rsynced over to the drive. The script then umounts /media/backup and all seems well.
A few minutes later the /media/backup mount point fills up with a copy of the rsynced files, this in turn fills the root partition up and crashes Samba.
The server continues to work as expected except for the Samba crash. I have not been able to come to grips with what is happening, but as soon as I do I will pass the info on here.
Recently, I installed KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) to see how it compares to Virtual Box for virtualization. Here are the steps I took to get it going on my Dell E6500 running Debian Squeeze.
Step 1: First install the kvm and virt-manager packages. Debian uses the qemu-kvm. This is done as root.
code: apt-get install qemu-kvm virt-manager
Step 2: Add your normal user to the libvirt group. This is so your normal user will have permissions to access the libvirtd and kvm environment.
code: useradd <your user> libvirt
Step 3: Now log out and login again so your user will be a part of the libvirt group.
Thats it. As you can see this was a pretty easy setup for kvm and Debian.
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