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Category Archives: Hardware

Debian Sarge(ish) x86-64 Xen Installation

Following along a great debian-administration.org article, titled, “Debian Sid gets Xen 3.0″, I set up a minimal Debian Sarge AMD64 install from debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso for use as a Xen development server. The full text of this post contains my step-by-step how-to on my successful installation.
I ran a default netinstall installation, selecting no additional software packages, [...]

Debian 3.1r0a “Sarge” on Dell 600m

This will bounce around a bit, while I keep a few notes on my new Sarge install.
I have been tracking Slackware-current for about a year on this laptop, and wanted something a little easier to maintain. Don’t get me wrong - I love Slack, and use it on several workstations and servers, but my lappy [...]

Solaris 10 Jumpstart from FreeBSD

My little SunFire v120 has been asking me to run the latest Solaris 10, and do some testing :), so I set up Sol10 on my Linux jumpstart server, which was happily running my current Sol9 jumpstart. Needless to say, I ran into a multitude of problems, and found many other folks that [...]

Great snowboarding, right up until…

Well, here it is…

Slackware Security Updates - cont.

I donated a server for the slacksec.org team, and the site is now coming from Rackspace. The slacksec admins have set up a mirror of the official GUS-BR packages, which is available via rsync. You can also grab the official Slackware updates mirrored here:
http://ftp.pbandjelly.org/pub/slackware.org.br/
ftp://ftp.pbandjelly.org/pub/slackware.org.br/
(links removed - no longer available)

My typical day at the desktop

Just for fun, I thought I would share my typical day at the desktop… This is only one of the six virtual desktops I run - no fancy window transparencies and silly graphical monitor thingies - clean, fast, and strictly business

(added 2/2/05)
The above is still exactly how my workstation is running at [...]

Gallery Migration Done!

The site and photo gallery have been migrated to a new server, and Gallery upgraded to the latest stable version. This is kind of fun for me because I am no longer on a shared server, but my very own. I have a couple of rolls of film to get developed, and will [...]