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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

I only needed to scan one photo, and while I do have a Fujitsu ScanSnap 300M somewhere....its Mac only, and I don't own a Mac. I had acquired that scanner during Black Friday last year, not realizing that it was Mac only. It won't even work on Linux.… more »

Found another problem with my karmic upgrade of 'box'. The clocks on everything were starting to drift....well 'box' is my NTP server. I check the ntp.conf, and it was still correct. Then I realized ntp started while bind wasn't....so it omitted a t… more »

With a couple hours to kill this morning, I decided to see about upgrading 'box' to karmic. Ideally it should've been LTS, but that's another story.... It gave an estimate of one hour to download. Well, it ended up taking those couple of hours. And… more »

I hadn't intended to start upgrading systems to Karmic Koala so soon...since the servers are kind of pegged with other people downloading and upgrading. But, playing around with do-release-upgrade on my Ubuntu server at work....at first (on Thursday) it… more »