Just bought an external USB2.0/Firewire Hard Drive (http://www.amacom-tech.com/ez2disk.html). It's really nice, 120GB for only £97 [Ebay of course]. My Mac sees it fine and Windows does (I haven't tried yet but I know it will). My Suse box however does not see it which is a pisser but Suse does have problems with External USB drives. I'm gonna try on KNoppix Live CD and try and do my backups from there. Just in case anybody has come across the problem, this is the error I get in /var/log/messages:
kernel: usb 4-1: control timeout on ep0out
kernel: usb 4-1: control timeout on ep0out
kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 10, error -110
kernel: usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using address 11
kernel: usb 4-1: control timeout on ep0out
kernel: usb 4-1: control timeout on ep0out
kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 11, error -110
I'm Gonna try and get a Firewire card and try that way. There will be no stopping my bcakups then 🙂
I bought some more memory for my Suse Box too off ebay so hopefully that works. I'll have a 3GHZ Processor and 1.5GB Ram……..Nice.
I needed to set up PHP and a WebServer on my Desktop in work and remembered I had read an article about the Abyss web server. I gae it a try and I have never come across a web server that can be set up so quickly… kicks Apache's httpd.conf arse. I have PHP5.0 running to so I can finally get around to trying out some of the new PHP5 features,
On a non-tehnical note, Myself, Gill and two of her Uni buddies tore up Liverpool last saturday.. It was wicked, Tooheys new in Walkabout brought back memories of Sydney (So too did being pissed as a fart not knowing where I was 🙂 )