Jun
10
MPD: Music Player Daemon
June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
About a year and a half ago, the price of Hard Drives (and their size) suddenly made it possible for us to imagine having most of our content (music, DVDs) archived on Hard Drives and easily accessible across devices. As it turns out, we are still in the process of importing some of our CDs […]
Apr
17
Change the default language and keyboard layout of a Debian machine
April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Recently, I was given a Virtual Machine development appliance to work with. The machine was running Debian which I like but it had been installed in French which I … dislike. First, I find Debian to be not so well translated and I’d rather use it in English. Second, I use qwerty keyboards so the […]
Jan
2
Debian Etch: setting up the basics
January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
There are a few things I always do when setting up a new system running Debian: I install the bash-completion, I set up my terminal colors, enable coloration in vi/vim and other little improvements. In order to make my next setup much easier and save some time, I gather the necessary steps in this post. […]
Apr
5
Installing Fink on Mac OS X 10.6
April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
Before I was a mac user, I have used Windows and Linux for several years. I still use Linux daily (via SSH) and I still see Windows running on machines all around me. From these two worlds, there are very few things that I am missing on Mac OS X. From the Windows world, I […]
Jun
7
Debian: Naming USB devices with uDev
June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
I use three different small backup drives as three backup volumes. I turn them on on sunday, the backup scripts runs overnight, and I turn them off on monday morning. I’ve shared the backup script in a previous post. The problem is that the backup script starts by mounting the backup drives. It expects them […]
Apr
15
Debian: remove unused packages
April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
Two days ago, I ran into a strange problem with my email server which refused to send any more emails. It turned out my hard drive was full… I started by emptying the tmp directory and running aptitude clean and aptitude autoclean but that wasn’t enough to free enough space to allow me to breathe […]
Apr
15
Debian, read the bootup messages
April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
While Debian boots, several warning, error or information messages appear and quickly disappear from the screen. If you wish to log these messages in order to consult them later on, you need to enable the bootlog by editing a single configuration file. 1vi /etc/default/bootlogd The file should say something like 1BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No Simply ,change it to […]
Apr
14
Access Subsonic via Apache
April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
I have setup Subsonic on my server last week as a standalone applicaiton. That means that Subsonic runs its own webserver. The only drawback of this method of deployment is that, to access the application, I had to type http://<subsonic server>:8080. To access Subsonic while using port 80, I enabled the mod_proxy and added a […]
Feb
18
Debian: from Etch to Lenny
February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Today (or yesterday as I write), Debian Lenny was released. If you with to upgrade, the procedure is as follow: Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all occurences of “etch” by “lenny” run apt-get update or aptitude update run aptitude upgrade run aptitude dist-upgrade The little discovery I made tonight was that apt needed keys to update […]
Jun
14
KDE4 on Debian Sid
June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Well, with a running Debian Sid distribution, I am all set to test KDE 4. The installation process is simple enough but, before getting into it, remove any previous version of KDE. Here is how I’ve done it : I added references to experimental in /etc/apt/sources.list: 12deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental […]