Category Archives: linux
Compile GPSBabel on Ubuntu
If you’re using a Delorme PN-20, –30 or –40 on Linux, you might try to use gpsbabel to load pocket queries. Gpsbabel is an open source, command line tool that converts just about any type of GPS file into any other GPS file, including pushing them to your unit. Unfortunately, Delorme support is a rather new [...]
How to Correctly Start the Web UI in Lucid Lynx
Deluge is a pretty good bittorrent client. And the web UI for it makes torrentflux-b4rt look like 1998 (actually, it makes it look like 2005, which is frighteningly long ago). In any case, the problem is, the official Deluge web UI how-to guide pretty much doesn’t work for Lucid. Instead of their wonkiness, to start the Deluge [...]
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. [...]
Script to Transfer Pocket Queries to Delorme PN-XX GPS
via GPSBabel