Thoughts of just about anything
Linux
Installing Gnome Do without Evolution
Aug 8th
I’ve been using fluxbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is very light and since I run it on my server I want to keep the footprint as small as possible.
Problem is I fell in love with Gnome Do and rightfully so, as it has quite a bit of functionality. So I installed it just fine. I had some Mono dependency which is quite some files but I can live with that. Then I tired installing the gnome-do-plugins package and to my surprise there is quite a bit of stuff. More >
Moving from backup2l to rsnapshot for a better backup
Jun 21st
For a while now I’ve been using backup2l for my automated backups, but there where a few things I didn’t like about it. First the fact that all the backups where compressed, which is fine when you are trying to save space but trying to restore something can be a pain. in backup2l’s defense it does have a locate/restore option to quickly search and restore files, but I find that it takes time to search and if your file is a common name you’ll get multiple hits unless you narrow down your search. Another thing that bugged me was that I really never did get the configuration of levels and max per levels. I did play around with it and got something that worked for me but didn’t really understand it. So I started looking for an alternative. More >
Burning Movies to DVD
Jun 15th
I just recently found a bunch of little video clips that I took with my little point and shoot Canon PowerShot camera. Most of them are really short, less than 5 minutes, and I wanted a quick and easy way to put these on DVD so I can send them to friends and family. So here it is a quick and easy way (relatively speaking) to encode movies in linux to DVD. More >
Tango color scheme
Nov 24th
When I saw uwstopia’s post on Tango terminal I fell in love with the color scheme right away. Basically it follows the Tango Desktop Project color scheme with a few exceptions. Personally I spend so much time on the terminal that this scheme make it easier on the eyes. But there was one problem I don’t use gnome-terminal, I instead use mrxvt it’s very light weight, support 256 colors and will compile on MAC OS X and Linux. More >
Starting a Virtualbox machine from the command line
Nov 15th
I finally got Virtualbox running on my Debian box but I kept wanting to just start the virtual machine from my Fluxbox menu instead of running the GUI and selecting it from there. More >
Samba creating root-owned files for non-root user on Debian/etch
Sep 30th
I just noticed today that when I connect from my Mac OS X box to my Debian/Etch box via Samba it appears that every time I create a file it gets the owner of root. For example if I log on as jfrias I would expect files to be jfrias:jfrias when I create them but they are created as root:jfrias. More >
Search and replace using perl!
Sep 29th
Sunny Walia has a great tip for Search and Replace in a linux box. More >
Mondo Rescue Live CD
Feb 29th
I love Mondo Rescue and at one point there was a Live CD that would boot your PC and you can then launch it from there. It was great for backing up Windows machines, but I tried searching for it and the Live CD is no where to be found. So I decided to roll my own. More >
Strange Symlink Behavior in Leopard
Nov 11th
I just noticed some strange symlink behavior with my Samba shares on my Debian box. Usually directory symlinks show up as folders on Mac OS X. But today I noticed that they started to show up as file aliases. More >