Blast from the Past: VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX
This post was originally published on October 29, 2010. The original can be found here. Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server […]
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Blast from the Past: Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
This post was originally published on November 27, 2011. The original can be found here. As you may be able to tell from my recent, […]
Blast from the Past: 10 reasons why Mint might not fail in India
This post was originally published on July 7, 2010. The original can be found here. Last evening while reading the SA forums, I encountered a […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
Applying updates to Docker and the Plex container
In my last post, I discussed several Docker containers that I’m using for my home media streaming solution. Since then, Plex Media Server has updated to 0.9.11.4 for […]
Running a containerized media server with Ubuntu 14.04, Docker, and Plex
I recently took it upon myself to rebuild a general-purpose home server – installing a new Intel 530 240GB solid-state drive to replace a “spinning rust” […]
Initial thoughts about PC-BSD
[Please note: this is a historical post – I’m no longer running *BSD in 2014, and this is a collection of thoughts on its setup […]
Falling off the FreeBSD bandwagon
I’ll have to admit that during the previous week or so, I haven’t been able to exclusively use FreeBSD at home or Linux as a […]
Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
Getting FreeBSD up and running with X.org and nVidia drivers
The Experiment has officially begun, and with that I’ve gone through the FreeBSD installation process. The actual install was fairly uneventful: apart from the fact […]
Linux: does it work for workers who work in the workplace?
In the ramp-up to the 2013 Linux Experiment, I got ambitious and decided to try not only FreeBSD as my official entry, but to install […]
Airing of grievances: in which upgrading Ubuntu wreaks havoc
I’ve had a few nasty experiences this week with Linux and figured I’d vent here. Unlike my previous efforts with Linux From Scratch and Gentoo, […]
Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!
As you may be able to tell from my recent, snooze-worthy technical posts about compilers and makefiles and other assorted garbage, my experience with Linux […]
Building glibc for LFS from Ubuntu by replacing awk
If you run into the following error trying to build LFS from a Ubuntu installation: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/mnt/lfs/sources/glibc-build/Versions.all’, needed by […]
Reinstalling LFS soon: it’s not my fault, I swear!
I went to play around with my Linux from Scratch installation after getting a working version of KDE 4.7.3 up and running. For a few […]
Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1
I’ve decided to try and upgrade my LFS system to the latest version of KDE (4.7.3 as of the time of this writing) and correspondingly […]
Why do so many open source programs throw C/C++ warnings?
Seriously, I’d like to know, because this is a bit ridiculous. For all the heavily encouraged coding styles out there, nearly all the open source […]
LFS so far – why you should build i686 and x86_64 binaries
I’ve now been actively using my (Beyond) Linux from Scratch installation for about a week now, and it’s actually pretty neat to have something working […]
Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS
Using the instructions from the BLFS book with the latest available 3.6 build of Firefox, I was able to achieve success. I figured I’d try […]
Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working
So I wanted to install XMMS in Linux From Scratch, as it’s one of the more reliable MP3 players and one of the first multimedia […]