The Love Shack

Ok, so I’ve been encoding my DVD’s for viewing on my mythtv box and I’ve gotten tired of always tying up my desktop while I do so. So I set up a little headless box in the closet (encoder) to just encode away while I’m doing other stuff on my main machine (thief). But, now [...]

So I just noticed something kind of funny. I’ve been using GNU/Linux (Debian to be exact) for about 6 years now. Prior to that, I had used all of the various flavors of Windows. And in all that time, I would usually format my Windows partition and start from scratch every 6 months or so. [...]

Note: Before you go looking for “Server-based Azureus, Part 1″, know that it’s not there. It’s one of those things I meant to write but never quite got around to.
I’ve been using Azureus as my BitTorrent client of choice for a number of years. Since my primary desktop PC is a dual-boot machine [...]

Sad news. Blackdown Java Linux is no more. The project has been retired. For those who never knew Blackdown in its prime, it was the only way to get proper Java support in Linux for years. For years Sun was under the impression that Linux == Red Hat. So for all of us non-RH users, [...]

So I’ve been using PulseAudio for a while on my desktop and I’m absolutely loving it. Now, at some point in the past I was able to automatically have sounds on XDMCP sessions (using Xephyr in this case) forwarded back to me (from esd) so that I would get remote sounds played on my desktop. [...]

I currently have 5 different Instant Messaging accounts. ICQ, AOL IM (AIM), Yahoo!, MSN, and Google Talk. Aside from the obvious hassle of remembering 5 different names and passwords for 5 different services (hmm, wouldn’t OpenID be a great solution here?) I also have to deal with finding a way to connect to all of [...]

So the great guys over at Foresight Linux provide a number of pre-built images to allow you to take it for a spin. This is of particular interest to me since these images include Gnome 2.18. But, there’s a problem. Foresight provides disk images for QEMU, Parallels and VMWare, but not for my choice of [...]

Hot off of Nico Golde’s blog, news of the unthinkable! People are pirating Debian every day! Every day people download Debian programs and don’t pay for them! But, finally, we have a way to track where these criminals are! Behold, warez.debian.net!
For those who are wondering what the heck I’m talking about:
demonbane@Thief:~$ dig warez.debian.net
;; Got answer:
;; [...]

Erich Schubert commented earlier that he’s really happy about some of the new features in Epiphany. Personally, I’m one of the 952 (according to popcon) people out there that still relies on Galeon for day-to-day browsing.
Galeon hasn’t been actively worked on for over a year now, unfortunately, and there has been some discussion for a [...]

Christian Perrier has been documenting the translation status of Debian packages on his blog for a while now, but he’s recently received a bit of lighthearted criticism from other Planet Debian members. Now while I personally rather enjoyed his daily percentages as I could just glance at them and be on my way, it seems [...]