Category Archives: linux
Enable Mod_Write on Lucid
When I rebuilt the server, I forgot to turn mod_rewrite on for apache. Translation: you couldn’t post comments or visit actual post pages b/c the web server didn’t understand the human-readable links. This page showed me how to enable mod_write in Lucid: # sudo a2enmod rewrite # turn mod_rewrite on edit /etc/apache/sites-available/default, changing “AllowOverRide None” [...]
Home Server Upgrade
building a home server with Ubuntu
Last week, a friend of mine was getting rid of a 2.2 GHz desktop with 1 GB of RAM. As it turns out, this was substantially better than my home server, a 800 MGz box with 356 MB of RAM. So I took it and decided to upgrade. This is the saga of my weekend [...]
A Linux-Using Geocacher’s Review of DeLorme’s PN-30
and Topo 8
A month or two ago, I bought a DeLorme PN-30 handheld GPS. I’ve been using it for geocaching here in Central IL and wanted to post a few thoughts about the unit and Topo 8, the included software. Handheld The unit itself is really pretty nice. The paperless geocaching features are spectacular–having all the data [...]
Fix nvidia TV Out on Ubuntu
after you hooked up another monitor
Recently, I had some problems with my home server, so I did a bit of upgrading,from Hardy up through Jaunty to Karmic–I’d go all the way up to Lucid but ran into some serious problems. One of the problems was that X was broken. My server sits behind my TV and runs semi-headless: the only [...]
Glitchy Audio on PureDyne in A Virtual Machine
Dealing with JACK xrun errors in VirtualBox
I mentioned that I’ve been running PureDyne recently as a second operating system, purely for audio. It’s a moderately lightweight Linux distro based on Ubuntu that comes preconfigured for audio. It says it’s for ‘creative media,’ but I don’t need another distro for Gimp and Inkscape–I need something that makes Jack work right out of the [...]
The Inner Torment of Being A Linux User
or How Linux Is Like Protestantism
Ivanka from the Ubuntu Design Team twittered a hysterical link about the difference between Mac and PCs recently. It was an old article, from 1994 or some such, so they compared Mac to DOS, which is funny to start with. Of course, you can substitute “Windows” or even better, “Linux,” for DOS in this context. [...]
A Compact Theme for Spaz
I gave up on Gwibber a while ago–it was just too buggy for me to stand using on a day-to-day basis. In my search for an open source Twitter client, I found Spaz. While it’s based on Adobe Air, it’s not too bad. I found the default theme a bit too big, though. And while I [...]
Install ConkyForecast on Mandriva
Conky Forecast is an awesome way to get some quick weather data on your desktop. Together with the sweet conky config Fab from Linux Outlaws put together, it’s awesome. It’s easy to install on Ubuntu–just add the ppa and install it. On RPM-based distros, though, it’s not as easy, particularly Mandriva where the rpm available [...]
How to Correctly Start the Web UI in Lucid Lynx