Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Adapt, adopt, improve!

I have to apologize to everybody who’s been unable to visit my blog the past week or so. There’s been some downtime, but I hope that the issues are sorted out by now. Here’s the story behind the outages.
The whole summer I’ve been planning a major overhaul of the servers I’m running in the cellar, [...]

Vote for Ubuntu!

Dell is asking users around the world about what Linux distribution they should support. I suggest y’all follow the link here and vote for Ubuntu Linux, and press “Submit”!

Howto: Hauppauge Nova-T 500 PCI under Linux

Note: This is a technical guide aimed at a specific audience. If you happen to read this blog and have no interest in Linux and TV cards, skip this post.
Note 2: This guide is obsolete! Use at your own risk. This guide is a lot better!
My father and I recently bought a Hauppauge [...]

Multiple software release parties!

Being cast away on a ship, away from internet connections and updates on your Linux software means that you get all excited and happy about all the new software versions released when you come home.

Ubuntu Linux 6.10 “Edgy Eft” First and foremost, there is a new version of Ubuntu Linux, the Linux distribution I use [...]

Ubuntu Dapper Cd:s

Pictures of my Ubuntu Cd:s I’ve got from ShipIt

Lots of Ubuntu love

To upgrade to Plone 2.5, I needed to upgrade broach to ubuntu dapper. I was a bit concerned that our main production server would be at risk of this upgrade, but it only required the execution of three commands and a wait of 20 minutes, and voila!
First, change all occurences of “breezy” to “dapper” in [...]

Server upgrades

Since the rest of the family is away during midsummer, I have taken this occasion as a chance to do some upgrades to the server park.
I have replaced the router/webserver/dns box with a brand new Ubuntu installation, which will be easier to manage than the old gentoo system. That system had been running for about [...]

New DSL modem, should fix connectivity issues

Yesterday I bought a new DSL modem, a cheap D-Link modem with no fancy functions, to replace an old, faulty speedtech modem. The old modem had a tendency to fail silently for several hours and then come back online again. This did of course cause that this blog got unavailable for long periods of time, [...]

Ubuntu CD:s

Yay! Got a delivery of about 30 Ubuntu Breezy CD:s from ShipIt. So if anyone from Västerås or the immediacy wants to get a free and complete Linux system, just mail me and I will give one to you.

Ubuntu Breezy

I have had Breezy installed on my box since a few weeks, and there is definitely a lot of improvement since hoary. Right now I have burned a CD-R with the distribution to migrate the lot of boxes I have at home. One of the things I do like with breezy is that everything fades [...]