18 Sep, 2009
Following on from my post about building Debian virtual machines with libvirt, I’ve now got automated installations of Debian Lenny using the preseeding method. Coupling this with using virt-install, I can have a Debian virtual machine installation in only a few minutes. No questions asked.
The virt-install command contains an extra-args argument, where you can fill-in [...]
It’s actually more difficult than you might think. From the bit of googling that I did, it seems that you can’t just ‘clone’ and LVM logical volume, while it’s running.
One method I found was to use the ’snapshot’ feature of LVM to create a ‘frozen image’ copy of the logical volume, which is then suitable [...]
MythTV is a wonderful project, which I’ve been running for nearly 12 months. In the AFL season 2007, I was downloading the Geelong games from the internet. Unfortunately, you’re at the mercy of whomever was encoding the game, in terms of quality. By Geelong winning the premiership last season, most of the games were broadcasted [...]
21 Dec, 2007
I had everything working quite well on my Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo) with Ubuntu Feisty, but due to some badness from the shitty, shitty ATI fglrx driver, I couldn’t use Gutsy with everything working.
The new kernel in Gutsy moved from the SLAB allocator to the SLUB allocator. (Btw, I have no idea what that [...]
I’m running Gentoo and Ubuntu Feisty on my MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo), and it just refused to resume after a suspend to ram. Let this be a note to anybody else going through the frustration that I was.
In /etc/default/acpi-support, I changed POST_VIDEO from true to false.
# Should we attempt to warm-boot the video [...]
The new Banshee rocks. Not only does it do two-way iPod sync, but it also does cover art, iTMS (from a plugin) and Last.FM recommendations. I nearly forgot, it also does DAAP for sharing with iTunes over mDNS.
I made some ebuilds for Gentoo, and submitted a bug report for it.
Rad.
I scored myself an APC Backup-UPS RS 500 the other day. It’s a small unit designed for running pretty much one machine on it.
The nice thing about this is that it has a USB interface which I have connected to my server hosting andybotting.com, and allows me to monitor it using apcupsd software. It [...]
09 Nov, 2005
Haven’t blogged for a while, so he’s a quick update of what’s been going on.
At work late tonight, helping out because of a function. It was supposed to be finished at 9pm, but it’s now 10:15pm and they’re still here. Let’s bring on the tear gas and tasers
We started getting pissed off with [...]
I have been using LogWatch for a while now and I have been very impressed. It sends me a daily email (at about 3am) summarising the important parts of the logs that were generated throughout the day. It was actually LogWatch that tipped me off that something was not quite right when my server was [...]
After recently getting my insanely fast ADSL connected last week, I wanted to rebuild Gentoo on my desktop machine. I found the document Installing Gentoo 2005.0: Stage 1 NPTL on a Stage 3 Tarball on the Gentoo forums and thought it sounded quite interesting. The document outlines step-by-step how To Build a Fast and Bulletproof [...]