Two good pieces of news in the notebook front:
-> Pulled out the 40 gig from its little case (the one I’ve been using to make it my Debian Slug disk) and looked up the part number on Toshiba’s site. It’s a 5400 RPM, and is the same size as the old Sager and HP [...]
The Kind Healer
Ambassador from Uru
NSLU2 Linux
Upgrades, Part 2
Popping my Head Up
I had no intent of not writing a RSS-able entry in the past two months; In fact I’ve been tweaking away at the site now and then, its just not in areas that will be noticed much by sites like MystBlogs. :p
Anyway, the obligatory ‘what’s been going on since April’ post:
-> The Slug (NSLU2-Debian), [...]
Well, slugs definately have no time sense…
OK, this little gem was worth the hell getting there:
SIDRAT:/etc# /etc/init.d/ntp stop
Stopping NTP server: ntpd.
SIDRAT:/etc# ntpdate 0.debian.pool.ntp.org
8 Apr 05:41:51 ntpdate[3426]: step time server 64.25.87.54 offset 204327186.111730 sec
Note the time offset; I’ve had the server off since before the 2007 DST was supposed to take effect. Apparently it reverted to Oct 2001 (argh).
Anyway, having [...]
Update on the Site
I’ve been perusing my site logs to see who’s been hitting the place lately, and why. Brought up some interesting subjects, which I’ll begin to address now:
“Does Second Life work on an ATI Radeon Xpress?” - Last I checked with the notebook, yes, but slow. There is a ‘first look‘ version of their [...]
Continuing Fun With ‘The Slug’
Some of the latest things I’ve been working on with my NSLU2 Debian-install ‘Slug’ has been mostly tweaking.
Last couple days, due to discussion on #libsl, I got curious and decided to get the second account I use for freenode IRC network working again. (I use a separate user login for each ircnet under irssi [...]
Irssi on NSLU2 Part 3 - DebianSlug - Working!
For those following this insane saga, I’ve now moved on to the Debian ARM install of Linux on the NSLU2 NAS unit. And now have both a stable working ’slug’ and irssi with the perl module.
About time. Really!
Since this is a fully functional port of Linux, complete with packages, I’ve set aside *why* [...]
Continuing Fun With a Slug - Gentoo Time…
For those first hearing about this little adventure, I wanted a little box to run irssi off of, that was inexpensive, low-power, and the flexibility of a Linux box.
So I got a Linksys NSLU2 NAS, and re-flashed it with a special Embedded Linux kernel (Google for OpenSlug).
Well, it worked, but irssi was horribly hobbled (in [...]
Cross-Compile Failure 2
Strike two. Irssi normal code compiles fine, even with all the options I sent it.
Bah.
Well, there is still the DebianSlug and similar releases for my little box. Or make it a full-fledged IRC bouncer of some sort (one that connects via SSL/HTTPS).
Still looking…
–Alan
