How to get Dropbox working on a CR48 Google Chrome netbook
So, sometimes using the web-based Dropbox interface just won’t cut it and downloading individual files from there to upload elsewhere is a pain. I thought it would be pretty cool to have a local cache of my Dropbox on my CR48, and as it turns out, that’s not too hard. Put your CR-48 in developer …
Arch Linux First Impressions
Having become rather tired of reinstalling Ubuntu every six months or so to keep current with releases, I recently decided to give Arch Linux a whirl. I was feeling impulsive so I decided to just jump right in without the benefit of a install guide or anything of that nature, I figured I’d get a …
Debian Diskless Cluster Howto
Inital Setup This guide will walk you through the diskless cluster install and setup process. The cluster has a head node that serves boot images to the compute nodes and the database node. We’re attempting to present a unified system image across the cluster. For this reason, all nodes are looking at the same root …
Gophercore
gopher://gopher.signalnine.net/ Should work in Firefox, or apt-get yourself a real commandline client if you’re on a Debian system. And yes, that is in fact a Twitter-to-gopher gateway I wrote. Also, this blog is being re-published as a phlog. Apparently Veronica is still around! I got my server added to the index seed list, I’m listed …
VLC streaming webcam server
I recently had occasion to create a streaming server to serve a video and audio feed, for use as a baby monitor. So, I decided to re-purpose my aging Eee 701 that’s become next to useless because the LCD is failing. However, it makes a perfect compact low-power headless Linux server. I bought a cheap-ass …
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