http://www.theclonchs.com echo "Hello World!" > /dev/null Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:10:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using the very handy flacsync python script to handle transcoding my audio collection into M4A for my iPod.  Now with the Droid I'm not forced to use that format -- although I probably will.  However, flacsync only supports M4A.  So I hacked support for Ogg Vorbis into it. ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2010/07/flacsync-patches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flacsync-patches Although the conficker virus made malicious use of the Autorun properties of thumb drives, this feature can be used for good!  Here's how to use it to automatically synchronize directories and files on a USB thumb drive to a directory on your hard drive. Software you'll need: cwRsync - A Windows build ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2009/10/automatically-backup-thumb-drive-in-windows-xp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=automatically-backup-thumb-drive-in-windows-xp After upgrading Renee's computer with powersavings in mind, I enabled the more aggresive powersavings options in Windows 7 RC.  I also set it to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity.  Much to my surprise, the system kept waking itself up after a few minutes of sleep.  WTF?! I had suspected a ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2009/07/windows-7-powersaving/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=windows-7-powersaving I migrated the server yet again.  Actually I migrated the OS; hardware stayed as is.  Hopefully the new setup will be a little more stable than the previous.  Please excuse the non-working links as I take my time getting everything put back together.  Part of the delay is tied to ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2009/02/back-online/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-online I had the pleasure of adding a "hot spare" filesystem to our Solaris box today.  Actually, it was a continuation of what I started the other day.  Now I've never been particularly exceptional with disk devices (or block devices in general) in Solaris, so I knew this was going to ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/06/solaris-volume-manager/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solaris-volume-manager So I'm doing my first RHEL kickstart. I'm quite impressed. I've known about it for sometime (who doesn't) but never really used RHEL and therefore didn't have a reason to use it.  But now that I'm "the linux guy", and RHEL is an obvious choice for enterprise environments, I standardized ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/05/kickn-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kickn-it Well, installation was a breeze. In fact with the move to cmake, compiling the masked ebuilds of KDE4 took only a few hours! Wow. Overall it is great. However, one must remember that really just the core of KDE4 is production ready. The surounding applications ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/04/first-impressions-of-kde4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-impressions-of-kde4 Just made the jump to 2.5 (from 2.2) and I must say in true Wordpress fashion the move was easy as pie. They standard backup database, disable plugins, then upload/copy files process. Some cool new features are the built-in tag support and redesigned dashboard. Moving from Ultimate ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/04/jumping-to-wordpress-25/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jumping-to-wordpress-25 So, I figured that now is a good time to install KDE4. Gentoo published an official guide, so here it goes. http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/03/kde4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kde4 Ok, so I just ended up backing up my configs and diving in head first.  It is really much easier than I thought, although I had to fiddle with subversion to do the in-place import.  Answering my earlier questions... Repository location - I know how to use the old RCS version ... http://www.theclonchs.com/2008/01/re-version-controled-configs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=re-version-controled-configs