In june I took camera to my walk with dogs. Yesterday I’ve found those photos and found out that this happens to be pretty good memmory. I decided that it’s worth sharing. So here you go:
Hope you like it.
I’m in between :-).
I have academic degree, I’ve manage to learn many not trivial topics so why not learn how to play a guitar? :-) First step is to buy one. I didn’t want anything extraordinary, just electric guitar. After talking to my friends I started to go through auctions with this kind of equipment. I knew from the begining that I won’t buy new one. I didn’t want powerfull amplifier either. Kind of lucky I found auction with both used guitar and amplifier. It’s playable… Some work must be done with it, but as for now everything sounds good (not always :-)).
Epiphone Junior (Les Paul) with amplifier (Epiphone Studio-10EQX) and cable.
Picks and guitar-pc connector (Neutrik).
With all accessories (cable, stand, pc conncector) it costed me about 450 PLN (which is about 160 USD; guitar + aplifier = 110 USD).
For me this was quite a surprise. I knew about one covered song by Nine Inch Nails, and it was Supernault. Then I saw a film by Anton Corbijn Controll, on Era Nowe Horyzonty film festival in Wrocław. On one of ending scenes Sam Riley*, playing Ian Curtis, is performing a song which I found similliar to something… After deep thinking I concluded that it was Dead Souls by NIN from The Crow soundtrack (with Brandon Lee). How could it be? Well actualy it’s Joy Division’s song and was officialy first released on Substance in 1988.
* another surprise is that every song in Control is originalu performed by the actors :-).
It’s been a week since I got my academic degree. In Poland it’s called licentiate, but wider known as bachelor of science. I must say that it wasn’t a hard job. I expected more both from myself and university. Those 3 years have passed very fast but some great moments are to be remembered forever.
Now I’m about to buy a electric guitar :-). Not that I’m a musician… just want to have fun. I don’t believe I’d learn playing the guitar but maybe I’ll manage to make some interesting sounds. Great mystery it is!
My leg was attacked! :-)
The attacker was identified as a Wood Tick.
Attacker has been exterminated.
A photorelation is available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trueboar
Well, it’s working for some time now. It has been adopted as my home server, including:
- internet gateway (IPFilter, DHCP, Bind)
- web serwer (Lighttpd)
- file server (vsftpd)
- desktop (Gnome)
and sometimes
Everyting is OK with default installation. Now is the time to get some of the build in hardware features working.
I’ve done some reading and it seems that most of CPU features are available in newest kernel. So I downloaded archives and started playing. I found that there is support for C3 processor based encryption. So I’m going to build own kernel with the support of http://kernelnewbies.org/ website. Wish me luck :-).
Debian installation from USB stick
Published April 28, 2007 Debian , Howto , Linux , miniPC Leave a CommentI gave up the idea of setting up Solaris as my home router/server OS. It seems that I don’t have enough RAM. Actually I have 512MB, and I’m able to install Solaris, but to comfort work it’s just too few.
And now I have Debian. It was quite an adventure. I didn’t want to turn off my PC to borrow
one of DVD drives, so I decided to install it from USB stick (pen drive). Ok… how? Simply copying data from ISO image is not enough.
First, prepare your USB drive. Unmount if mounted automatically. Then:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
sudo mkdosfs /dev/sda1
Make sure /dev/sda1 is actually your targeted USB device. Before above steps you can make sure wich /dev to use:
sudo mount
on the bottom you should see your device.
Install:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syslinux mtools
Then:
syslinux /dev/sda1
Now download necessary files:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308/images/hd-media/gtk/
and appropriate ISO image, eg:
http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso
I have 1GB pen drive, so one CD fits for me, but you can choose smaller ISOs: netinst ot bussinescard.
Copy those files to your USB drive:
sudo copy source_file target_file
eg:
copy /tmp/downloads/vmlinuz /mnt/vmlinuz
Additionally you have to have syslinux configuration file:
sudo touch /mnt/syslinux.cfg
nano /mnt/syslinux.cfg
and paste the following:
default vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz
Your USB installation media is ready, unmount:
sudo umount /mnt
Set up BIOS on machine you’re about to install Debian to boot from USB-ZIP and you’re done.
NOTE: I didn’t use packages from ISO shown in example only. I’ve done mixed installation ISO + remote (network) repository (mirror). You will have this option available during your own installation so no additional steps in this how-to are necessary.
Bonus: graph showing network usage during Debian mixed installation.
Tip about recovering X server config
Published April 22, 2007 Howto , Linux , Ubuntu Leave a CommentAs Ben reported in my previous post I decided to write short how-to about getting your X server back to it’s feet.
Firstly it might be that only your session breaks at logon. So in bottom left corner choose logging to a Terminal Session, and then type your credentials. If you see only black, scary, screen with gray letters; don’t be afraid. Your system is working, it’s only your X server that doesn’t work. Easiest problem to solve is to edit your xorg.conf file.
Type:
cd /etc/X11
Note that, there is capital X.
Then:
ls -l | grep xorg
You sould see a list of your xorg.conf file with backups, and old versions. By looking at your list, mine looks like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3980 2007-04-18 23:13 xorg.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3910 2007-04-18 23:13 xorg.conf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4291 2007-01-12 17:20 xorg.conf.20070112172056
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4922 2007-01-12 18:28 xorg.conf.20070112182803
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4856 2007-01-12 17:58 xorg.conf.fglrx-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4922 2007-01-12 17:58 xorg.conf.fglrx-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4179 2007-01-13 01:09 xorg.conf.fglrx-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4747 2007-02-17 22:24 xorg.conf.fglrx-3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4692 2007-02-18 14:53 xorg.conf.fglrx-4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5179 2007-04-18 23:01 xorg.conf.fglrx-5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4291 2007-01-12 17:20 xorg.conf.original-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4259 2007-02-17 22:17 xorg.conf.original-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4185 2007-02-18 14:49 xorg.conf.original-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4700 2007-04-18 22:55 xorg.conf.original-3
choose newest xorg.conf that you remember worked.
You can quickly look into every file by typing:
cat | more
Eg: cat xorg.conf | more
Scroll down with enter or spacebar, quit with q.
Now to replace broken xorg.conf:
sudo cp working.xorg.conf xorg.conf
This command will overwrite xorg.conf with working.xorg.conf. If you want to backup your broken conf (?):
cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup
Or any other filename you want (but don’t use existing ones).
Now you should be able to run you X session. Type:
startx
or
sudo shutdown now
When you know what you did wrong with your xorg.conf you can edit it in the terminal. I wouldn’t recommend Vi editor, but there are others. Eg: nano, mcedit etc. Depending on your system configuration, type:
nano xorg.conf
Edit, save. And good luck.
Upgrade Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, plus ATI and Compiz
Published April 18, 2007 ATI , Drivers , Howto , Linux , Software , Ubuntu 4 CommentsI decided to upgrade from Ubuntu Edgy Eft to Feisty Fawn. First impression is good. I had only to reconfigure VMware Server. There’s also some disturbing property in Gaim 2.0beta6; it’s still downloading old Gmail friends list. But new feature, mail notification, is very cool, so no harm done :-).
To upgrade your Ubuntu distribution type (in terminal):
sudo update-manager -c -d
Click here and there, wait a bit of time (mine upgrade took about 2h, with downloading). Important thing is to answer some questions whether to keep or overwrite configuration files of some services. Usually it is better to keep your old confs. And thats it! How do you like your new operating system? :-)
With ATI/Compiz it took me some time to get it all working. First I followed some tutorials. But it only messed with my xorg.conf. So I loaded oldest conf (from first installation I think) and started from scratch.
Step-by-step (or better cmd-after-cmd :-)):
Just in case:
sudo modprobe -r fglrx
Then:
sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx
You probably already have it, but:
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
OK, now edit your xorg.conf:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find Section “Device”, and edit, so it look like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 AS [Radeon 9600]"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
EndSection
Yeah, I know I mentioned in other post that I have 9550 but I’ve done some kinky tweaks on my graphic card and it’s now 9600 (rv350), even PRO :-).
In Section “Screen” I’ve left only one resolution, It’s good choice for me, because I never change it. My LCD gives best view on max resolution, wich is 1280×1024.
There are two more things to do. In Section “ServerLayout” add this line:
Option "AIGLX" "true"
From what I know it has to be on top of other entries in this section.
And the last step is to add two more sections:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Instead of Enable you can put 1 (one).To make the changes take effect, you have to restart your X server. Do this by rebooting your computer or simply by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
Voila!
Now you should go to System->Preferences->Desktop Effects and enable Composite manager (Compiz by default). You can try and play with more feature-based Beryl, but I do, really, not recommend it. It’s highly unstable. Maybe with Nvidia cards it works better, but if you have ATI – stay away.
Optionally add some compiz packages through Synaptic.
TIP! I encountered a very annoying problem after first enabling Compiz. I’ve lost my left mouse button functinality, LOL! It was really funny when I tried to click something and all I could get was another screenshot#.png file on my desktop. It wasn’t hard to google answer. It is reported on launchpad.net under Bug #90918. Quick how-to:
Open gconf-editor, and navigate to apps/compiz/plugins/screenshot/allscreens/options. Disable initiate_button.
Uff. Have a nice day.
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