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I posted to 10500bc.org

Debian Boot Thumb drive from OSX

http://www.10500bc.org/archive/2009/12/30/debian-boot-thumb-drive-from-osx/

Last week I had a need to create a debian boot disk. The computer I needed to use it on doesn’t have a CD and I didn’t feel like purchasing a USB CD reader just for the purpose of loading debian, and I didn’t feel like waiting until I could go to down or have it shipped. So I had to make a boot disk. I’ve done it in Linux several times before but never from OSX. So the commands aren’t exactly the same, here are my notes taken from a couple places on the web, which should serve as a reminder for the next time I have do to it. First I downloaded the debian image I wanted to use from there site. Next I stuck the thumb drive in the box. from the termial (I use iTerm)

diskutil list

mine was listed as /dev/disk1

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1

bzcat debian.img | dd of=/dev/disk1

diskutil eject /dev/disk1

It was a simple as that. To test i stuck it in my handy netbook and reboot and I was at the lovely command prompt. Then of course other things happened that required my attention so I haven’t gotten back to that project of getting the box installed yet.
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- linux
- software
- mac
December 30 2009, 10:23pm | Comments »
I posted to 10500bc.org

Customer Weather Notifications with Growl

http://www.10500bc.org/archive/2009/09/11/customer-weather-notifications-with-growl/

Last night I download Prowl on my iPhone and setup my growl to work with it. It’s very cool stuff together, i’ve been using growl forever. Anyway tonight I was reading in this thread in the prowl forum where one poster is using growl notifications for weather. Not just any weather but really local weather. Now if you live in or around a big town, most weather apps are pretty accurate for you area. But when you live out in the sticks like I do, they are only close most of the time. Anyway tonight I set up this excellent pair of perl scripts as outlined here from IBM: Develop your own weahter maps and alerts. Which is a very cool script that will allow you pinpoint your location. I used Photoshop to create the base map from the layers. Once followed all the instructions, some things are not exactly clear at first, but if your familiar with perl reading the code sorts it all out. I setup the notify scripts to send the messages to growl via the growlnotify command. Now once that was all setup I created a simply bash script that would delete the old Radar overlay, pull the current Radar overlay needed and run the perl weather scripts. I then stuck that script in my crontab. So if I’m at my computer I get notified and if i’m away from my computer i get a push notification to my phone. Very cool stuff. Of course I could just look outside to see if it is raining
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- linux
- software
- mac
- Code
September 12 2009, 12:25am | Comments »
I posted to delicious.com

OBD GPS Logger for Linux and OSX

http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/
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- linux
- software
- mac
- gps
September 6 2009, 1:43am | Comments »
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cfengine.org

http://www.cfengine.org/

Cfengine is an automated suite of programs for configuring and maintaining Unix-like computers
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- linux
- it
- sysadmin
June 20 2009, 10:44pm | Comments »
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puppet - Trac

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet

Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks.
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- linux
- it
- sysadmin
June 20 2009, 10:41pm | Comments »
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cobbler - Trac

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
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- linux
- it
- sysadmin
June 20 2009, 10:39pm | Comments »
I posted to google.com

Calibre Manages Your E-Book Collection [Downloads]

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/hUcit_eN2ck/calibre-manages-your-e+book-collection

Windows\Mac\Linux: If you've got a virtual pile of e-books but no good way to organize them, Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager, complete with Cover Flow-like looks and network sharing. Whether or not you have a portable e-book reader, Calibre is packed with features to help you organize your e-books. To start, you simply tell Calibre where you store your book files. It does a pretty good job pulling the necessary information and self-populating, although you'll still find yourself making occasional edits, like swapping the author and title fields. If you're a LibraryThing user, you can also hook into that account to populate the fields. Calibre has a Cover Flow-like browsing feature for skimming through the covers of your books. You can leave comments on your reads, and a tagging system for organizing your collection beyond the basics of genre and author. Calibre supports extensive file conversions, with the ability to convert over thirteen document formats into EPUB, PRF and MOBI formats for use on popular e-book readers like the SONY PRS 500/505/700, Cybook Gen 3, Amazon Kindle (1 and 2) and the iPhone (with the stanza reader software). You can also set up Calibre to fetch news from websites and RSS feeds and convert it into a compatible format, so you can load up your e-book reader with information from your favorite sites. There's even a built-in web server so you can access your e-book collection remotely. Calibre is freeware and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Calibre [via gHacks]
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- windows
- linux
- mac
- Downloads
- Mac OS X
- Document management
- Documents
- Ebooks
- Organization
March 15 2009, 6:00pm | Comments »
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freshmeat.net: Project details for apt-cacher

http://freshmeat.net/projects/aptcacher/
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- linux
- sysadmin
February 25 2009, 11:59pm | Comments »
I posted to delicious.com

Linux.com :: Power monitoring and logging with Apcupsd and Cacti

http://www.linux.com/feature/146308
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- linux
September 4 2008, 3:06pm | Comments »
I posted to delicious.com

UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
- Tags:
- windows
- linux
- software
August 29 2008, 8:18am | Comments »
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"WARNING" - Linux commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAr3XbqUbjo

"WARNING" - Linux commercial

Some Linux commercial. From: WaveMakers Views: 181473

462 ratings Time: 00:42 More in Comedy
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- commercial
- reclame
- spoof
- Comedy
- windows
- ubuntu
- pclinuxos
- linux
- vista
- spot
May 25 2007, 8:44pm | Comments »
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Compiz-Quinn(now Compiz-Fusion)for linux. The future is now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawkc3jH3ws

Compiz-Quinn(now Compiz-Fusion)for linux. The future is now!

Click 'MORE' Please n Read... This is Xgl/Compiz(now known as Beryl Project) running on my secondary comp which is a 4 year old dell with 2.4 ghz P4 proc, Nvidia 6600 GT gfx card, and only 512 megs of RAM.

The music is Sidology Ep 2: Trinity, By Machinae Supremacy.

This Linux install was SuSE 10.1 and I now use Sabayon Linux. Which you can get here: http://www.sabayonlinux.org Three versions include Mini CD install, Full x86 32bit install and Full x86 64bit install DVDs!

The theme is a custom theme; which unfortunately I lost when my main hardrive died on me. :(

However, you can get the wallpaper I used from my box.net account here: http://www.box.net/shared/static/ssvcn7tvei.jpg

A few other cool backgrounds here: http://www.box.net/shared/static/vbnerbj5hg.jpg http://www.box.net/shared/static/vfqjgf3kjt.jpg

The original backgrounds I downloaded from http://www.caedes.net; a great site which has many many more awesome backgrounds. The cubecaps are from art.gnome.org.

Go here for 'Powered by Free Software' cubecap (this one was downscaled from the original using gimp to 1280x1024 to work with my res)

http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/other/1547

and here for 'Linux - Rided The Wave' cubecap.

http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/other/1131

The skydome can be found here. It, along with several of the others below, I made myself by splicing a mirrored version of the original and modifying it slightly so the two sides don't appear as perfect replicas of each other. http://www.box.net/shared/static/to24pcuin6.png

A couple other cool skydomes: http://www.box.net/shared/static/tgm7tm86mv.png http://www.box.net/shared/static/c99jly0x9y.png http://www.box.net/shared/static/b1z7uxe8ze.png

enjoy :D From: kroneage Views: 1435019

1418 ratings Time: 04:28 More in Entertainment
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- Music
- Entertainment
- windows
- linux
- vista
- movie
- Minority
- apple
- osx
- machinae
- suse
- beryl
- desktop
- awesome
- cool
- future
- 3d
- PS3
- xgl
- brasil
July 28 2006, 7:17pm | Comments »

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