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    Projects for idle VPS?

    SMTP tarpit could be one option. You don't really need to accept the email, just keep incoming SMTP connections open 1..24 hours (or until the spammer gives up).
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    INIZ - one year review

    Oh and, not sure about all meanings of "snappy", but I tried to use it as defined here: http://www.definitions.net/definition/snappy
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    INIZ - one year review

    Basically, running "make" (=run gcc and compile some C code) on OpenVZ.IO node was not "instant" or as fast as on SSD node. I then tested this by compiling gcc itself on the nodes and comparing the results.
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    New vpsBoard summer contest! Win some cash.

    My INIZ.com review:  Verification: http://iniz-la.gxbfxvar.florist/vpsboard.txt
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    INIZ - one year review

    Purchase date: 2013-08-08 .. current   Services: LEB-SSD-1024 OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-08..2014-08-08 (will be cancelled when the billing period is over) OpenVZ.IO 4G OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-23..2013-11-29 (cancelled) VPSBoard special 64MB OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-30..current...
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    How do you manage/organize/store your config files for your servers?

    I use RCS (yes, that old one) for /etc and Mercurial for configuration files in $HOME. Backups are done using tarsnap. On a new system, I just clone the personal configuration repositories from one of the existing machines. Machine specific settings are either handled via branches or just in...
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    New vpsBoard summer contest! Win some cash.

    Thanks, here is my proof: http://at.gxbfxvar.florist/vpsboard.txt (Name should resolve to 2a03:f80:ed15:37:235:63:165:1).
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    New vpsBoard summer contest! Win some cash.

    Here is my EDIS.at review: Any idea how to do this?
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    Freshmeat / Freecode goes dark

    Freshmeat was also a good way to advertise your open source software. My web sites got significant traffic spikes whenever I announced new release on Freshmeat.
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    EDIS.at - one year review

    Background: I am ex-customer of Linode. When Linode had a security incident in Apr 2013, I decided it was time to change the server provider. After some research, I found out that EDIS offers dedicated servers with OpenBSD, so end up trying them. It also affected to my decision that one of...
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    Anyone ever installed YouTrack?

    For me, Youtrack has been very easy to setup. Here is my startup script for it: #!/bin/sh export PATH=$HOME/programs/jdk/bin:$PATH java -XX:MaxPermSize=250m -Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar youtrack-5.2.1-8778.jar 8499 As JDK I use the official one from Oracle.
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    What's your Windows text editor of choice?

    Another UltraEdit/UEStudio user here. Although on Linux/BSD and especially on servers, I tend to use nvi or vim.
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    [FitVPS / Telecoms Ltd.] a Raspberry Pi server done right ++

    Have you considered using Bulgarian LIMEs instead of Raspberries? About same price, but slightly more CPU power and SATA connector. Otherwise nice offer, beats nx-box in price.
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    Arduino + Solar + Lipo + Bluetooth

    In general, plain Arduino UNOr3 (5V) draws 18mA..~45mA depending on the running mode (normal, idle, sleep, standby). Older Duemilanove consumes slightly less, thanks to different USB-UART chipset (ftdi). Some Arduino clones can consume even as little as 0.02mA (20 uA/microamps). Some (of my)...
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    Raspberry Pi alternatives? What do you guys think?

    Looks like A10-Olinuxino-LIME is out of stock from olimex.com. However, you can order it from resellers like exp-tech.de: http://www.exp-tech.de/Mainboards/OLinuXino/A10-OLinuXino-Lime.html (LIME is even cheaper there, thanks to smaller VAT in Germany).
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    ST Nucleo and Mbed

    mbed environment is quite nice. Although, I don't like to send my code to some web page, so I have been using offline SDK from https://github.com/mbedmicro/mbed and compiled all code locally on my own computer.
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    Raspberry Pi alternatives? What do you guys think?

    I have been using Olinuxino imx233 and A10/13/20 devices from Olimex. All of the boards can run Linux and their price range is from 22 EUR to 65 EUR (+VAT) depending on the features. For example, currently I have one Olinuxino-imx233-maxi (64MB RAM, 454MHz CPU, custom Linux distribution)...
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    Ulta low power TI LaunchPad

    I am fan of MSP430 boards from Olimex, for example https://www.olimex.com/Products/MSP430/Proto/MSP430-PG2231/ Also, once you get bored with Launchpad, you can try TI EZ430: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos EZ430 is a wrist watch with msp430 processor and you can freely...
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    What Phone Apps do you have or use?

    I am surprised that no one uses Firefox Mobile? It is my first app to install on every Android phone. In addition to Firefox, I use MuPDF, Wuala, and Safari Books Online.
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    What Backup Software Do YOU Use?

    I am using tarsnap for my servers. Data is encrypted on client side (client code is open source) and then stored on Amazon's servers. It is pretty light weight, so you can use it also on Raspberry Pi and other low powered ARM devices.
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