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 [...]
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, I reconfigured [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]