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"2 Types of Linux File Locking (Advisory, Mandatory Lock Examples)": https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2...

This might be of some interest to you.

See subject: Correct me if I'm off/wrong but this shows it's doable apparently (no ufw/iptables/ipchains or routers needed) https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/07/how-to-disable-ping-replies-in-linux// to disable ping/icmp echo replies (traceroute too unfortunately but iirc, it's BUILT on pings/icmp) MINUS using routers OR software/hardware firewalls & @ the OS workstation OR server level...

APK

P.S.=> ... & "there ya go" + I learned something today which makes it NOT a 'wasted day' (time to drink a few beers I say, holiday weekend & 'what-not' in the USA this weekend + my program's portings are going EXTREMELY well & yardwork/spring cleaning's done AND bills are paid so... off we go, lol))... apk

FreeBSD is a Unix type Kernel, Darwin too. Unix != Linux http://www.thegeekstuff.com/20...

But as it is, considering you still need to use the terminal to do something as simple as changing the resolution when the OS doesn't support the GPU drivers, or installing an application...

How to install software. Of course, not everything is going to be in your distro's repository, so sometimes I have to go to a website and download a .deb or .rpm file myself. Haven't compiled anything from source in years.

How to set the resolution.

See subject: Via the route & arp commands in *NIX or Windows - See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... OR http://www.thegeekstuff.com/20...

* Firewalls can work as well here I'd imagine (for denial of contact w/ DDoS'ing machines of varied types (not sure if this would work on a DNS AMP reflection attack though))...

APK

P.S.=> Scripting network techs/admins could manage this in a snap by feeding a % parm'd .bat or .cmd file (probably powershell or shell scripts too) easily by feeding in parameters for IP addresses to block into a route command to add it to routing tables as denied (or firewall rules which are easily merged by .reg files) - I've thought about writing up a GUI version of this actually (like my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?... is for host-domain names, albeit for purposes of doing what YOU are looking for - AUTOMATED arp/route protection vs. IP address related threats used in DDoS)... apk

They are not nearly as fast as processors 5 times as expensive ( :) ). The most demanding thing I do is compile, which multi-threads nicely. The 8 cores just chew into it. If you want a reference point, I just compiled the full kernel tree. I followed the directions here to compile a 3.9.3 kernel on a Centos 6.6 install.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/20...

After saving the default menuconfig .config, doing a time on 'make -j 10' produced a time of:

real 10m42.766s

That's with Firefox and X consuming roughly half of one core while I continued to surf and listen to Spotify-webplayer during the compile.

So, if you want to see what it will buy you for compile times you can compare to your current system.

A Xeon E5-2660v3 may compile the tree in 1/3rd that time, but that's a $1400 processor, and this is a $700 computer.

Good hunting.

I agree, we work to live. But I think perhaps you've been making mistakes, such as informing your employer that you can automate tasks to save time. Just use it to your advantage so you can be lazy. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/lazy-sysadmin/ :-D

The first thing I thought of was loss of one of the drives during all this moving around. Seems the protection of the data would be of the utmost priority here. Keeping this in mind, I'd go with a RAID 5 or 10 setup. This will eliminate having the data distributed on different "drives", so to speak, and it would appear to the system one single drive. This would increase the drive count, but loosing a drive, ether physically (oops, dropped that one in the puddle) or electronically (oops, this drive crashed because we keep swapping it every day) would be a non-issue, or at least a not-tragic issue. I'm sure you have a swappable tray system now for the number of drives you need, you may need to add a tray or two for this setup. Just make sure you keep the drives in the correct order, or swap out the whole drive unit.

As for the original question. I don't think there's really a "best" distro for this, they'll all pretty much do the above out of the box and almost automagically. What you need to look for is what is the easiest distro to use in this case. What will the users be able to use with the least support from me? Unless you're the one that will be swapping out the drives on a daily basis, then use what you're most comfortable with.

You could take a look at some of the options: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/bug-tracking-system/ source: google

From now on, It'll also be your fault for not having backups:

Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
OS X (leopard, snow leopard, Lion*)
Linux
Linux
Linux...

(some of the linux methods will also work on OS X and Windows....)

*Lion doesn't even require a separate partition or disk. Of course, it will not protect you against disk failure in that case.