Monthly Archives: August 2009

Belkin Wireless Router is just rubbish

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 24, 2009
For a while now we have been configuring our network to suit our needs – we have a wired segment for our main server and client PC’s and we have 2 small computers we use for all our multimedia – one is currently hooked up to our HDTV and the other is in the process [...]
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Apt-cacher proxy, Translation index files and apt-get update errors

By Martin Guppy | Published: August 4, 2009
After setting up apt-cacher on our home server and setting all our other computers to use it as a proxy caching service, we found that apt-get update and Update Manager always fails while fetching Translations. Get:5 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_AU [2734B] Ign http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_AU Err http://mirror.files.bigpond.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_AU Error reading from server - read (104 [...]
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