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Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire

Johnny Cash - One

U2 - In A Little While

Notice the artist to song synergy. Brilliant entertainment.

Saturday is back on track. Adjusting the XMMS buffer to 512kb and the prebuffer to 25%, it now appears that my D-Link DSM-320 MediaPlayer in the living room and the XMMS media player on my Desktop in the office are in sync playing from the same source. Could it be a fluke? I am [...]

As I began setting up a Debian server to host my web sites and develop solutions, I realized that I began to learn again. For me, finding Linux has always been about growth. When I grow professionally, I grow personally. I become more productive, I see the better parts of myself - the parts I like.

It is snowing. First 10cm+ dump close to the lake. Some interesting news on a the worm that has been dealing a load of traffic to some of my mail servers. Details on the recently cracked Sober worm reveal some techniques that allow it to upgrade and change itself by connecting [...]

A second new Debian distribution in not so many monthes. Check out the screenshot of desktop after running the installation ISO. Now that Xen 2.0 and 3.0 are running on various gateways here, I hope to see Xen support for this distribution soon, so that we can start running some services [...]

Yesterday I had a Bell number, and today it rings through to a Vonage VOIP phone. If a Bell landline can become a Vonage number so easily, can I get them to grab my Bell cellphone number too.. and then give it to another carrier? I am sure number portability is feared by [...]

After some experience working with VOIP startups in the 02-03 era, I was pleasantly surprised with Vonage’s VOIP service. The network configuration was notably simple, as I was able to plug it in behind an existing Debian firewall and it worked just fine. And the phone number hasn’t changed. Furthermore, with [...]

In a breathtaking moment, I rebooted blog.ianbmacdonald.com remotely into a newly built Xen0 kernel. It worked. For friends I have promised their own Debian boxen with Wordpress and Gallery2.. the time has come. Stay tuned. Xen Rocks. A small amount of credit goes to Radio Paradise for providing great music [...]

Now that the bounty for packaging OpenOffice.org2 on GNU/Solaris (Nexenta) is up to $200, it should be interesting to see what sort of bounty packaging the recently free Java Enterprise System and N1 Management software will draw. It seems much has changed since I dropped in on GNU/Solaris a month or so ago, so [...]