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If you go visit sco.com really quickly, you’ll notice that all is not quite right.. Newsforge has more on the story, as does Netcraft.

In a heated discussion about the grand vision that people have for the Irish Linux Users Group, Justin Mason suggested (sorry! no link, the archive is broken again!) that we use a Wiki to keep the information on the site current and uptodate. He outlined his own ideas and suggestions in his post, How to have turn a stale project site into a useful Wiki and it’s not a bad idea at all!
I’m in favour of it, who’s with me? Why use a wiki?

Niall Sheridan writes:

>> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50 +0000, Niall Walsh wrote:
>> [snippage]
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>>> > The website contains lots of out of date information.
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>> Update it then. From what I hear, the webmaster happily will accept
>> contributions.

A good tip — moving to a wiki helps a *lot* here. We found that our stale old SpamAssassin website has become the main source of live, up to date info now that we wiki-ized it.

(It turns out that vandalism and people throwing up crappy info isn’t a serious problem at all. See http://taint.org/2004/09/28/191712a.html for details.)

After a few small glitches and problems I have Debian Testing running on my desktop machine at home.
The install process is a lot easier than before and really, I have/had only 2 problems. One was with setting up X – The “generic mouse” entry which pointed at /dev/input/mouse/mice or something didn’t work so I commented that out. The detection of my monitor worked, but it generated mode lines which were a little conservative. I couldn’t get more than 1024×768 on a 19″ monitor! That was easily solved by copying the values from my FC2 install.
The locale setting is a bit screwy too. I tried to get it to understand the Euro symbol by choosing ie_IE@euro (or similar) but now ‘”‘ becomes “#” and “|” becomes “>”! I’m sure there’s an easy fix, and changing the locale settings seem to fix bash/screen sessions but not X. More work to do there!
Anyway, xmms with mp3 support was installed by default, but I noticed mplayer wasn’t there. You can download mplayer packages for Debian here, makes things simple to install!

Have you ever tried du -csh .* to find the size of all the hidden files in your home directory? It never works properly for me as I think it only counts the size of the .* files in each of the named directories.
Anyway, the following solves that problem and shows you where all those thumbnails have been generataed by gthumb or nautilaus.. 🙂

for i in `ls -A`; do du -sh $i; done

Yes, this desktop screenshot is just showing off! Who wants a transparent movie? 🙂

A lengthy thread on the ILUG list over the last few days has sparked my interest in installing Debian again. I tried Stable several years ago and wasn’t impressed by how ancient all the packages were. I should have used testing as it’s fairly up to date!

Well, well. It’s much simpler these days to configure Squid as a transparent proxy than ever before! Getting it to limit bandwidth is a piece of cake too! 🙂

Anandtech published a guide a few days ago on installing and using MythTV, a Tivo-like program that you can install for free on a PC to record TV programs.
‘Course they should probably have used KnoppMyth instead and saved themselves some hassle!

Silly me! I *always* forget that “2>&1” is how you redirect the error channel to standard output! I don’t use it very often so here it is when i want to use it again in a few months time!