Category: Technology

Today I had a lot of fun setting up Yellow Dog Linux on a Blue and White G3. Beyond some initial formatting issues, the install went very smoothly. Yellowdog is essentially Redhat 8 cleaned up for PPC. I was prettyContinue reading… Yellow on Blue

Just to torture myself, I figured I would do some samba testing between 2 Mac OS X boxes to see if the OS X samba client is just being wacky. So, running samba 2.2.3 server on a g5, and sambaContinue reading… Torture

RAID is fixed up I think. I rebuilt the superblock and all the files are there and happy. Did a raidhotadd on the hdk1 again, and we’ll see how it is in the morning. It’s showing up still as theContinue reading… Fix0red

Okay, so I’m tooling around with the RAID last night and I’m cleaning up the file system after transferring some files over samba. Lets say that I copy over a file called Happy.avi. I get another file called ._Happy.avi. IContinue reading… Well that's weird

Soonly the iPod Mini will be unleashed upon the world. On friday I will be snagging one. I have been going through my ipod culling out the music I haven’t listened to in a while. I’m down to about 4GBContinue reading… iPod Mini

So, the linux RAID is up and happy for the most part with 3 drives. It’s currently getting around 36MB/s writes, and 110MB/s reads. Not to shabby for 3 drives. I’m still waiting on another 250GB drive to fly it’sContinue reading… Fluffy is a happy box

So last night was a busy one. Re-installed Fedora FC-1, installed 3 250mb drives and set them up in a test RAID which was easier than I thought. Created /mnt/raid, mke2fs, mount, and viola. B0rked my XFree86 install, ssh’d inContinue reading… Damn your eyes Samba