http://www.calebscreek.com paper plates. plastic trees. assorted vagaries. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:05:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/09/download-debian-lenny-virtual-lamp-appliance/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/09/download-debian-lenny-virtual-lamp-appliance/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:18:28 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=701 Lately I have been rethinking / rejiggering / reinventing our SCM and Release Engineering functions at work. One of the things that has shaken out of it is the use of “virtual appliances” in our infrastructure. And of course that means that I have been proofing the concept here at home with VirtualBox OSE (at [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/09/download-debian-lenny-virtual-lamp-appliance/feed/ 0 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-rip-audio-cds-to-flac-format-with-rubyripper/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-rip-audio-cds-to-flac-format-with-rubyripper/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:59:25 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=636 So, you’ve liberated yourself from the prison of proprietary audio formats like MP3 and decided to move to an open format with growing industry support and a far superior sound quality: you’ve selected FLAC. And if you run a GNU/Linux distro on your computer, there may not be a more bulletproof tool than Rubyripper for [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-rip-audio-cds-to-flac-format-with-rubyripper/feed/ 2 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-install-virtualbox-ose-guest-additions-in-debian-testing-squeeze/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-install-virtualbox-ose-guest-additions-in-debian-testing-squeeze/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:40:37 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=595 For the impatient or inattentive: the Debian installer currently detects when it’s executing in a VirtualBox guest VM and installs the guest additions for you during setup. If you think that your installation is bad for some reason, install the virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 package and you’re all set. So, you want to run Debian in VirtualBox at [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/08/how-to-install-virtualbox-ose-guest-additions-in-debian-testing-squeeze/feed/ 3 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-increase-your-wireless-network-card-speed-in-debian-linux/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-increase-your-wireless-network-card-speed-in-debian-linux/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 11:54:52 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=406 I recently replaced my cable modem and wanted to measure the increase in speed that I used as the rationale for the upgrade. (For those of you that are married, you know exactly why I needed to do this.) But along the way, I ran into a few surprises–most notably that I wasn’t getting anywhere [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/how-to-increase-your-wireless-network-card-speed-in-debian-linux/feed/ 1 http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/live-free-or-die-debian/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/live-free-or-die-debian/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 22:04:09 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/?p=362 Admittedly, I am not a big fan of most things even remotely related to New Hampshire (save for my until-recently-homeless-and-unemployed friend, Kevin), but this has got me rethinking my stance: a license plate that aptly reads “Live Free or Die: Debian.” Of course, the “Live Free or Die” part is the state’s motto/ethos/battle cry/pre-wrestling-cage-match chant. [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2010/05/live-free-or-die-debian/feed/ 4 http://www.calebscreek.com/2009/12/compiling-a-realtime-preempt-rt-kernel-in-debian-50lenny/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2009/12/compiling-a-realtime-preempt-rt-kernel-in-debian-50lenny/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:03:46 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/blog/?p=207 OK, let’s just get right to it. We both know why you’re here and you’re probably raring to get JACK and some client apps running in RT mode with low latencies as quickly as possible. Make sure you have the requisite packages: $ apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 --> build-essential zlib1g-dev By the [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2009/12/compiling-a-realtime-preempt-rt-kernel-in-debian-50lenny/feed/ 4 http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/build-a-debian-etch-lamp-server-in-30-minutes/ http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/build-a-debian-etch-lamp-server-in-30-minutes/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:17:16 +0000 rsheaves http://www.calebscreek.com/blog/?p=37 Who this post is for: anyone who’d like to quickly set up a Debian Etch development server with a LAMP stack and put it in a closet somewhere to be accessed remotely from a workstation via VNC. In this walk through, I install a bare bones GNOME desktop, but you could get away with an [...]]]> http://www.calebscreek.com/2008/09/build-a-debian-etch-lamp-server-in-30-minutes/feed/ 4