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Blast from the Past: VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX

March 1, 2017 Jake B 0

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!

December 23, 2016 Jake B 0

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, […]

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Blast from the Past: 10 reasons why Mint might not fail in India

December 21, 2016 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop

June 5, 2016 Jake B 2

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

December 7, 2014 Jake B 0

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

November 23, 2014 Jake B 3

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” […]

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Initial thoughts about PC-BSD

January 16, 2014 Jake B 0

[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 […]

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Falling off the FreeBSD bandwagon

August 25, 2013 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI

August 4, 2013 Jake B 5

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 […]

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Getting FreeBSD up and running with X.org and nVidia drivers

July 27, 2013 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Linux: does it work for workers who work in the workplace?

July 27, 2013 Jake B 1

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 […]

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Airing of grievances: in which upgrading Ubuntu wreaks havoc

February 24, 2013 Jake B 5

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, […]

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Linux from Scratch: I’ve had it up to here!

November 27, 2011 Jake B 11

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 […]

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Building glibc for LFS from Ubuntu by replacing awk

November 23, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Reinstalling LFS soon: it’s not my fault, I swear!

November 17, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Fixing build issues with phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.5.1

November 9, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Why do so many open source programs throw C/C++ warnings?

November 8, 2011 Jake B 5

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 […]

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LFS so far – why you should build i686 and x86_64 binaries

November 7, 2011 Jake B 0

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 […]

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Getting Firefox 3.6.23 to compile under LFS

November 4, 2011 Jake B 1

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 […]

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Installing glib-1.2.10 in LFS to get XMMS working

November 3, 2011 Jake B 1

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 […]

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