Nix Bits

Writing up the procedure I use to stream music got me thinking about problems with it and alternatives. One problem that it has is that I must be logged in on the console, in X, running xmms. A power-outage forced reboot could end my musical bliss at work . Someone else […]

I’d done this a long time ago and pretty much forgotton all about it. I’ve used procmail for a long time to pre-sort all my mailing list mail among other tasks. I also use it as a mechanism to distribute my gpg public key. If you send me a message with the […]

If you’re like me, you’ve taken the time to rip your entire music collection to mp3. I have a huge collection of CDs and like to listen to them in the car with my portable mp3 player. I also like to listen to them at work. Since I have a PC and […]

Recently at work I needed a way to quickly recover systems from
bare metal to a known-good state. These were, of course, Windows2000
boxes. Now there are several commercial solutions to “ghost” a system,
but I didn’t have funds available to do that.

Enter knoppix. Knoppix is a
bootable CDROM distribution of Linux. It […]