Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

apt-get source squidapt-get build-dep squidapt-get install devscripts build-essential fakerootcd squid-2.7.STABLE7vi debian/rules Add --enable-ssl \ to “# Configure the package” section./configuredebuild -us -uc -bcd ..dpkg -i squid… more »

After having had some time to lick my wounds from trying to upgrade 'lhaven'. I decided to take the plunge and try again. So, I went back on to eBay....and bought another 1GB stick of memory, from the same seller as before...so that I could take the… more »

Last Saturday, I woke to find lots of SMART dialogs on orac's screen. It wasn't happy about a lot of drives, I had expected to see one or two...the usual when it does its monthly mdadm checkarray....except it wasn't Sunday yet.I then saw that lots o… more »

...was less than successful. Back following the icepocalypse, I resurrected 'lhaven' by changing its motherboard. The new motherboard was an upgrade to the old one, but I wasn't taking advantage of any of it. But, in my mind I thought that someday I… more »

One of the peeves that I've developed for Quicken 2010 Premier is the Chase logo on its splash screen. As I had previously written, I had a growing dislike of Chase. I never got a credit card from them, but they were the bank that acquired the bank t… more »

For sometime, I have thought that it was time to upgrade 'lhaven' to a more modern release of Linux.For the longest time, 'lhaven' has been running RedHat 7.3 (it was 7.2, but then I discovered Fedora Legacy...and they were providing patches for RedH… more »

'orac' is back, long live 'orac'. 'orac' had gone away on Thursday, it actually started in Wednesday.... For some unknown reason, I decided to start the upgrade of 'orac' from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS. The upgrade seemed to go okay, but when I rebooted… more »

Now that I've been running Quicken Premier 2010 for a while (since making the switch to Microsoft's abandoned Money Plus), I have found a few things that are kind of annoying about it. That's on top of things I found early on like the cash flow feature… more »

Last night I wasn't thinking....running into the fact that my boinc-client package is broken on 'box', I thought..."why isn't it running the boinc-client from Lucid?" And, I proceeded to fix it with "apt-get"...and then realized that I'm still running k… more »

Ever since I learned about 5-bay port multiplier SATA enclosures, I've been wanting to get one to play with. And, when I acquired 'orac'...I sought out a port multiplier eSATA adapter to include in the build of the system. And, then waited for support… more »

So, I decided yesterday...in the midst of a tornado watch, etc. that it was time to pull the plug on the old Windows 2000 box known as 'gumby' and set up a new 'gumby' using the off-lease Lenovo Thinkcenter M55 that I got from TigerDirect when I got back… more »

Since I got back from Penguicon 2010, it had been my plan to test out upgrading to Lucid Lynx. I didn't get around to it the first day back to work, since I was busy catching up on 1000s of emails and making sure things that my co-workers had ignored… more »