Quick notes on gkrellmd / gkrellm-server ·
2006-04-23 09:02 by alleycat
It’s very handy, and simple enough to get going, tho this may save a little reading on your part. Cliff’s Notes:
- you have to allow hosts to connect in gkrellmd.conf
- you have to open a port in your firewall
Take a peek here: Gkrellm-server
Updated Freenx tips in the wiki for FC5 ·
2006-04-11 13:12 by alleycat
Turns out there are a couple things you have to do to make it fly. No doubt it’s a temporary situation.
Take a peek here: Freenx tips
A-tisket a-tasket... ·
2006-01-05 23:47 by alleycat
...a green and yellow basket. How embarrassing is this? I just got the color scheme on the website as I was typing that… lol.
Anyway, I just discovered this charming little app after getting a mailing about it on kde-announce. I’ve only used it a bit, and I’m sure i don’t know everything it’ll do, but it’s attractive in its flexible simplicity. But, that said, one can have only so many tabs, and while heirarchies suffer from scalability issues as well, v0.6.0Alpha1 has a tree, its baskets can contain baskets, and it has other nice features as well.
Being lazy, naturally i searched around for an rpm. No joy. Soooo… I made one on my fc4 box. Didn’t have to modify anything but the basket.spec file – how sweet is that? Here it is, if anybody wants it:
RPM: basket-0.6.0Alpha1-mantic0.i386.rpm
SRPM: basket-0.6.0Alpha1-mantic0.src.rpm
Sloppy, nasty, quick and dirty SPEC: basket.spec
Implementing BackupPC ·
2005-12-26 21:49 by alleycat
I spent part of the weekend implementing BackupPC at a client. I’ve had it running on my network at home on a Suse 9.3 server for some time now, but alas, I didn’t write that up. It’s similar on Suse, though some of the paths and other details differ. This time around, I figured I’d make some notes on it in the wiki.
This describes an install on CentOS 4 – Fedora would be quite similar, except I’d use reiserfs instead of ext3. So far I have it backing up a few linux servers and a desktop, and a couple AIX 5.2 boxes, and there are notes in the wiki on installing the server, getting it functional by backing itself up, and then adding linux clients. The AIX clients are quite similar, but I haven’t annotated the differences between them and linux yet.
The notes were made as I was doing it, so they’re probably not as organized as one would like, but it’s there down to a fair amount of detail and resulted in a functional server and half dozen clients, so it’s a start.
I really like BackupPC a lot – it solves problems many other backup systems I’ve tried don’t, so I’d like to really expand this bit of the wiki. I’ll be adding notes backups of Windows clients and a shared hosting account, and anything else more general that comes to mind along the way.
Anyway, I hope it helps someone out.
McDonald's Hamburger Secret Recipes ·
2005-12-07 23:18 by alleycat
“The McDonald’s® regular hamburger is the one that got it all started in 1948. It’s as basic as can be…yet the ones they serve today don’t even taste CLOSE! Make em exactly as I instruct, and you can enjoy that long-lost flavor once again.
(In the mid 80’s, McDonald’s® began cooking both sides of the meat at the same time, This was to cut cooking time in half. But it also forever changed the flavor of the original hamburgers—-ALL of them!)”
I always thought so – that it wasn’t just my imagination or just me growing up and my tastes changing. I used to love mickey-d’s burgers when i was a kid, and there came a point when they just weren’t the same – and it seemed pretty sudden to me. I wasn’t eating there much at the time, so I suspect it took me longer to notice than to happen.
I gotta try this soon – see if it’s true.
McDonald’s Hamburger Secret Recipes
Heads up on Oracle Express ·
2005-12-01 21:44 by alleycat
Oracle is offering a free version of their dbms as Oracle Express. Here’s the links and other stuff on the wiki.
Installing Jinzora on FC4 ·
2005-12-01 20:53 by alleycat
Added a page to the multimedia section of the wiki on installing Jinzora on Fedora Core 4 – not that it’s hard or anything. Jinzora’s a pretty sweet and featureful web based music jukebox that can either stream the playlist back to the desktop you’re accessing it from or run in “jukebox” mode, where you can remotely control the server’s sound card (presumably connected to a stero) from a web insterface on your desktop – or it can be installed to do both and you get to choose where to route the tunes from the web page.
As of now, the page is sufficient for a streaming install – the simpler and more common case. I have a start and some reference links on the jukebox install portion – which is pretty much server stuff outside of Jinzora so none of the work in the previous section is wasted.
Check it out in the wiki here
Ok, so siteframe is old and insecure ·
2005-11-06 06:56 by alleycat
They got me.
So I just mirrored the old site to a static image and that’s what you get with the old site link now, because apparently the siteframe cms i was using for it had insecure php code. Oops.
Naturally, certain links like login and search won’t work anymore. That’s ok – i never intended to update that site ever again. I’m only leaving it up ‘cause apparently some people still visit parts of it, and I sure ain’t gonna take the trouble of moving it into the new setup. BTW, one trick to doing that for purposes of publishing it thru a server is to use a command line like wget -k -p -E -r -l0 [URL].
It was a kind of interesting learning experience. The attack was fairly simple, yet they managed to do a bit with it. Some people just suck, I guess.
Why? ·
2005-10-28 01:50 by alleycat
I would have voted for McCain in a heartbeat. As it is, things go from bad to wierd.
Flock is pretty interesting ·
2005-10-27 19:22 by alleycat
I could see getting to like it. This is going to the textpattern here from flock’s blogging tool. I wonder if it’ll work…Hey! It does! So it’s got a builtin blog tool sopporting several protocols, and you can integrate your favorites with del.icio.us (or not) and organize them into collections with an instantly switchable bookmark bar. I don’t know if I’d call it revolutionary just yet, but it’s kind of nice.
Firefox is more mature, but given flock’s youth, that’s hardly a criticism. Maybe I need to think about making some fedora and centos rpms.
