Monthly Archives: December 2004

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12/31/2004 – 2:59 pm

In b4 lock!

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300GB Seagates and Adaptec quad Ethernet oh my

12/29/2004 – 2:12 am

I just snagged two 300GB Seagate ATA disks with the phat five year warranty. Very slick. I can finally setup a RAID 0 backup array. I also happened upon a four port Ethernet adapter from Adaptec which is going to end up in my firewall box, negating the need for the three PCI NICs I [...]

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Mixing sound in software with ALSA and KDE’s aRtsd

12/17/2004 – 12:33 am

If it ain’t broke… I decided to mess with my sound system anyway. I seem to have KDE’s aRtsd working with xmms using the ALSA output driver. I found a bunch of helpful resources. First, configuring the dmix plugin for ALSA. Next, aRts and ALSA for KDE’s aRts daemon. Instead of starting aRts from .xsession, [...]

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Gigabit, bus bandwidth, and NFS

12/11/2004 – 4:51 pm

After upgrading to a gigabit (GbE) switch and recycling my old 32-bit D-Link DGE-500T, I found my NFS performance to be absolutely abysmal. I was pulling around 1.9 MB/s over NFS from my file server. That’s poor, even for 100Mbps Ethernet, and surely for 1000Mbps. After lots of testing, I discovered that using NFS with [...]

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Monster S-Video 2 Actually Makes a Difference

12/6/2004 – 2:31 am

I have been using the stock S-Video to RCA converter that came with my Dell Inspiron 3800 for a couple years now. It’s a cheap little converter that’s hardly shielded and barely 1/16th of an inch thick. I replaced it with a cheap cable from Radio Shack, but after a year that cable broke and [...]

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Live Windows XP on CD with BartPE

12/4/2004 – 3:03 am

With BartPE you can boot a native XP environment and run all those magic utilities you need to recover a box that’s been damaged by a trojan, worm, or other failure. Cool.

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Rebuilding parts of the 2.6 kernel tree

12/2/2004 – 10:15 pm

Often times easier than recompiling the whole kernel, when only a single module needs to be rebuild inside the tree. Of course, you need to keep your source tree around and dirty. faith:/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/net/sched# make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 SUBDIR=`pwd` modules make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9′ CHK include/linux/version.h make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s’ is up to date. CC [M] net/sched/sch_sfq.o Building modules, [...]

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