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Linux kernel compiling

I must say it’s been literally years since I compiled my own custom kernel, although I do recall doing it very often just to stay pretty bleeding edge. Besides it was good practise. In the last week I took it … Continue reading

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Debian Lenny 5.0

Installed Debian Lenny 5.0 onto my AMD64 machine. Seems to run alright. I immediately got VMware Workstation installed and this operates nicely too. Operating system managed to pickup my native resolution correctly, of course currently only using an unaccelerated video … Continue reading

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Mythtv and PS3

As per Simon Rumble I found the PS3 to have a reasonable good UPnP client too. Although the PS3 wouldn’t play back recordings that had obivously had some modifications done. ie. cutlist changes etc. Once the recording goes into nuv … Continue reading

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Mediatomb on Debian Linux

If you want a upnp server on Linux that will support streaming of audio and video files to your Playstation 3 (PS3), then Mediatomb is the software for you. Grab it from the Debian repository and then configure it as … Continue reading

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Debian Lenny LiveCD Beta1

I was trawling the odd rss feed the other day and found the following post. It would appear Debian Lenny LiveCD Beta1 is available. Being a Debian fan, I thought this was good news. Will certainly be keeping an eye … Continue reading

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Debian 4.0 linode vps server and procmail success with smtp virtual users

After a few days of tinkering, I have finally configured things on the linode vps account so it works and does pretty everything I need. I am using Debian 4.0. Had thought about using Ubuntu, but decided to stick with … Continue reading

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HowTo Install VMWare Tools On Debian Linux Guests

This post was inspired by Sonia Hamilton. I too always find myself installing a Debian Guest into VMware, in my case it’s usually VMware Fusion. Although the VMware Tools package between all products is the same anyways. Of course each … Continue reading

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linode vps

I purchased an account and set about setting it up. So far very impressed, although at this stage I am trying to configure some suitable spam filtering. It would appear some guides/notes I had for amavisd-new is no longer usable. … Continue reading

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