My attempt at CARE's Live Below The Line -- eating for $1.50/person -- was something of a ( Read more... )

Most of the day -- a lot more than I wanted to spend -- was taken up by ( Read more... )

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released. Read more at www.debian.org.

Last night I dragged Dorsai, the erstwhile recording box, into the office from the studio bedroom, and pulled out the Delta ( Read more... )

I use too many different computers. At any given time I might be on one ( Read more... )

In this case, of course, Dorsai is the computer in the bedroom. (This ( Read more... )

Upgrading the workstations, and possibly the fileserver, to Lenny (Debian Testing) is starting to look attractive. It's running 2.6.22, which is the one I need to support my Seagate SATA-II drives, and it has Audacity 1.3.4, which is the latest and matches the version in UbuntuStudio.

It's usually safe to upgrade the fileserver, ( Read more... )

Here's a blog post from Mark Pilgrim, who switched to Linux a year ago (from Mac) and was warned ( Read more... )

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian ( Read more... )

After a lot of jumping up and down and screaming, I appear to have a crude firewall (using Shorewall on my Debian laptop, which was conveniently at hand) on my new DSL line that I can route through. I can traceroute to google.com and read lj -- that's a good sign. Yes, it's faster. Much faster. Ship it.

Total debug time: ( Read more... )