Archive for March, 2006

  • iTunes Shuffle

    I’ve heard KMFDM - Virus/Pestilence something 3 or 4 times in the past 2 days. My library’s on shuffle with “Smart Shuffle” set to “Less likely to hear multiple songs in a row by the same artist or from the same album.” Considering I have 5420 songs (16 days of music), it seems statistically unlikely [...]

    Thursday, March 9th, 2006
  • Unison File Synchronizer

    Unison (not the Usenet reader) is a tool for synchronizing directories between computers in a heterogenous network. I think I’ve been searching for this program since I first started looking into backing up my laptop.
    I added it to my crontab. Now my home directory on my laptop will sync with the local server every night. [...]

    Thursday, March 9th, 2006
  • Ubuntu installation

    I installed Ubuntu 5.10 on a PIII 933 as a net install booting over PXE from my laptop. Basic documentation is available here. In order to PXE boot, you need both a DHCP server and a tftp server. The DHCP server runs on my WRT54GS v2.0 with dd-wrt v23 (using dnsmasq for DHCP), while [...]

    Wednesday, March 1st, 2006