Here's a great parody article about the SCO. Link

"This is pure speculation by The VAR Guy. But things are getting a little strange over at Dell. It seems that some people who ordered Dell PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled have been told that ship dates have been delayed a bit. "For instance, some people who ordered Ubuntu Linux PCs during the Memorial Day Weekend (May 26-28) were originally told that their systems would likely ship on June 12..." Complete Story

Recently I upgraded my Debian distribution to discover that my ssh logins, and pings would occasionally take over 20 seconds to resolve the connection. As you may note the time on this post is well after 3:00, but I am victorious. You see my problems all started the other day while I was trying to setup a new vps box(the one hosting this site,) every time I would try and connect over ssh it would take about 15 seconds to respond. At first I thought it was the new server, so I sshd to another box, and it went fast. So I naturally I was a bit upset at the thought I had just paid for a server with a slow connection. It wasn't until I mentioned it to reaneyk, who didn't have the same problem, that I realized I was dealing with different beast entirely. Now I began to start testing things out. First I began by trying it from my Macbook, it worked, then my file server, which also worked. Now I figured it was a global problem with my ssh installation on my desktop, but it wasn't, after reinstalling and purging any previous config files I was right back where I started, totally confused. After a few hours of muddling around in /etc with hosts resolve, I decided it was time for irc and some real help. I ended up searching google for hours, testing various different services, programs and finally capturing a ton of packets with Wireshark. Nothing I did gave me any leads as to the cause of my problem. So far I had discovered it was only on the one computer, only effected pinging and ssh to my one server, and to make it even more confusing I wasn't getting any errors and my dns configs where exactly the same as my file servers. I decided to try killing processes one at a time to see if something was interfering with dns traffic, and when I had finished I reran KDM which for some reason locked up. I was almost out of patience and was seriously considering a reinstall at this point. I restarted and at the grub menu I saw the single user entry and was like ahhh what the heck. Booting into su I made the shocking discovery that ssh was fast, Finally progress. I quickly "init"ed into runlevel 2 and saw THE service avahi mdns, Doh how did I miss that. After poking around starting and stopping it I found that it was indeed avahi causing my woes. Apearenly one of the recent upgrades has a small bug that causes avahi to try and resolve an address, and if it cant it just sits there, even though the address would be easly resolved by dns. So until they get it fixed I won't have zeroconf nor be able to ping my Macbook with its bonjour address. Btw this bug could possible rear its ugly head if you install feisty fawn, as it is part of the default installation now.

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Today I found a really useful mirror for Debain. Add this line to your sources.list. deb http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/debian-multimedia/ testing main This mirrior has a ton of really good tools, including the entire myth tv install, some really good dvd ripping/encoding tools, music players/converters, and a bunch of other stuff I haven't really checked out.

I recently bought a Macbook for school, the first thing I wanted to do was get gcc, Firefox, vlc, and a bunch of my other favorite opensource software installed but of course that just wasn't good enough. So I decided to Tri-boot OSX, Ubuntu, and Windows XP(which I rarely ever use, but... why not.) It took me a couple of times installing multiple OS's and reformats to get it right. I decided to make a quick how-to of the steps that I took to get it to work. Most of the stuff is from other authors and sources that I gleaned from during my two day quest.

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Dell offers "Open-Source systems" One thing to note. The "Open-Source" operating system is FreeDOS. They don't or won't support any opensource operating systems that some one might actually use. Maybe there is a price break on those systems for them not having to buy a copy of XP. Any way I just thought I would note this, it made me laugh in side :) Dell's website since dell changes there site so frequently just go to Dell home and click on the open-source desktops.

If you are wanting to setup and install wine with IE6 and plugins, try using winetools. Wine Tools I had trouble installing IE6 due to some corrupt files, but I should have it resolved soon. It's allot easer than trying to install all the required fonts and dlls on your own. Good luck and have fun!

while installing ubuntu dapper drake on a desktop last meeting we ran into some live CD problems. So I took the PC home and installed off an older breezy disk, then I did a dist upgrade to dapper. This worked much better. On the forums, I had trouble finding good info on ubuntu repositories, it was mostly allot of complaints and nothing helpful. Eventually I ran across this wiki which solved all my repository, and configuration issues. ubuntuguide.org