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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
I may have to write how I did this at some point. I use Archlinux x86_64, with a custom kernel from Zen. It's got most of the stuff I need built in, and all other crap is thrown out. I further have added concurrency in rc.conf using @ before all but a couple of my daemons, and am using ReiserFS, with noatime notail nodiratime. I have further speed things along by editing rc.sysinit, and removed hundreds of lines of unneeded crap as well. One trick I found was that it is actually faster to mount an NTFS partition I have via rc.local, rather than fstab. That said, I can't think of anything else to make this faster!
Really, I make it to the KDM login screen in 8 or so seconds but this is total start time.
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
Ubuntu is the Windoze of the Linux world. It's big, fat, slow, overcomplicated, and breaks way too often...
I already had converted my laptop's distro over to Archlinux, and due to the fact that I was so impressed with it's simplicity and ease of customization, I have now put it on what I call my "remote box," which I keep headless at the family buisiness. It soaks up all the torrents I want, and I use it to store/backup my stuff, and bypass internet blocks.
Anyway, it was running Kubuntu server for a while, with X setup so I could use VNC when I got lazy. I tried to upgrade, and I got into some package dependency hell issues, and got mad, which prompted me to install arch. No gui required. X isn't even on the thing. I have Azureus consoleui setup, using the web interface to control it, with ipblock keeping me safe from snoops. Furthermore, tools like Webmin are nice to have, and I went ahead and set it up as a LAMP, as it's convenient for testing, and RPC pinging my moneymaking blogs, as well as serving my files remotely...all protected, though, through whatever password schemes necessary.
Whatever the case, it only uses 100mb of ram or so, and the install is only 800megs. Wow.
I'm not saying that Ubuntu sucks, but it does for power users...for n00bs learning about Linux, it's a pretty good fit.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
For those of you using a Debian based distro, it's not been super easy for those of you new to kernel compilation to build the Zen kernel for various reasons. That said, the precompiled packages I used to build didn't usually cut it, because they weren't custom for you, and they didn't work correctly with certain drivers.
In lieu of that, I have put together a bash script that will walk you through the entire kernel configuration and compilation progress, called buildZen. buildZen works, but is a beta. Please drop a comment if it doesn't work for you.
To try buildZen, click here.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
Google Web Accelerator isn't officially compatible with Firefox 3, at the moment. This means that current users of the products don't really get the speed they are used to. At the same time, there are probably people out there who think the idea of an accelerator sounds interesting, and would like to try it, but they've already installed Firefox 3.
Well, there is a little hack you can do to get it working; however it doesn't enable the little time savings counter, which you can probably live without until the accelerator is upgraded.
To do this, all you need to do is open the Firefox Options (Tools > Options > Network > Advanced > Settings), and tick the box that says "Automatic Proxy Configuration URL."
In the box, enter this: http://localhost:9100/proxy.pac
Restart Firefox, and watch the little accelerator icon "Rev Up" as you look at websites...you've got the Accelerator again!
If you don't already have Firefox, get it here:
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
So, you're one of the poor souls out there scouring Google for a solution to the problem of iTunes not running on Windows XP. Either you get an error prompt with the option to send an error report, or you get nothing, and the iTunes process hangs and eats resources in the background.
Sometimes, the problem is nLite related, with missing DLL's and all. You can find help for that elsewhere. I'd try this fix first, though, as it is much easier to accomplish.
If you still have iTunes installed, go ahead and uninstall Quicktime Only! If you get an error and can't, delete the QuickTime folder in C:\Program Files and try it again. Then, go download QTAlternative (not the lite version), the opensource clone of Quicktime. Install that puppy, and try to start iTunes...success?
If you have already removed iTunes, grab the installer and extract it with WinRar or 7zip. Then, only run the iTunes installer, after you have installed QTAlternative.
With this setup, iTunes runs, and I don't have to see those annoying Quicktime ads every time I watch a .mov file.
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