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Saturday Jan 26 7:23:05 2013
Everybody is asking me why the heck I got a raspi. I proudly show it
to all my family and friends and they all say:
"What's this? What's this for?"
(I do not have the energy to explain them what a gopher server is,
and why everbody should have, at least, one.)
I imagine that everyone has a different use for their raspis. I am
having so much fun playing with it since I received it that I should
write a post every single day. But unfortunately I do not have the
time to do it :)
Today I have yet found a new use for it, perhaps one of the best uses
I could think of, even though I didn't have that idea in mind when I
bought it.
I have a network server that I only use occasionally. I turn it on
when I get home if I need it, but I always turn it off at night. One
of the reasons to get my raspi was the possibility of having a machine
connected 24/7 and also reachable through the internet, for example,
using an smart phone.
Today, I was away from home with my netbook (eeepc 701) and I needed
to start a build on my server. I thought it would be excellent if I
could start the build before getting home and this way the first test
would be done by the time I arrived home. Well, suddenly I got the
idea:
I often turn the server on using 'wakeonlan', I have got several
aliases to mount devices on my network and do other similar things.
So using 'ssh' from my eeepc I logged on to my shell account at
sdf-eu, from there I connected to my raspi and installed the
'wakeonlan' package (I didn't have it installed there yet) but I had
my .shell_aliases in my $HOME. From there I turned on the server and
opened a shell to start the build. When I got home the first build
had failed and stopped, but it saved me a lot of time because when I
arrived I could start another build right away.
I know that the idea is not the state of the art. Many IT guys do
most of their work jumping from one server into the other all day
long but I'm happy to have come up with such a nice 'trick': Use the
raspi to turn on and off other machines in my network remotely. From
now on my raspi will be *one server to rule them all*.
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