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Make sure you have xargs, head, and mplayer installed (via your package manager) and run: /usr/bin/curl http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram | /usr/bin/head -1 | /usr/bin/xargs mplayer If the… Read More »NASA TV on Linux

Good news from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals: At issue in Warshak’s e-mail flap was a 1986 law that allows the government to… Read More »No E-mails Without a Warrant

A note I wrote when asked about the future of ZFS and current best-practices for storage: “My current line of thinking is that ZFS has… Read More »Where to now for ZFS?

Just a quick note for the search engines to find – peth0 can go missing from ifconfig if there is a GATEWAY= entry in ifcfg-eth0… Read More »peth0 missing from Xen Dom0 (RHEL, CentOS)

If you’re seeing this, this article isn’t quite done yet. Still setting things up right. Fedora client, Nexenta Server. On the linux side, start rpcidmapd… Read More »NFSv4 from Linux to ZFS under Solaris

I’ve got Jolicloud on the wife’s netbook, and it’s a nice easy-to-use distro. Trouble is, it’s based on Jaunty, which has old mythtv packages. These… Read More »Installing MythTV 0.23 on Jolicloud

Could IBM be looking to lighten their workload and workforce by re-basing all of their OS offerings on top of Linux? A few weeks ago,… Read More »IBM to Exit Hardware Business?

They don’t make flash drives like they used to. I’ve seen several pfSense installs fail recently due to drives flaking out and the wear-leveling not… Read More »Rescuing a Broken pfSense Install

There’s a problem when running two X-displays with MythTV – some events on the non-Myth screen will steal focus and then the MythTV controls will… Read More »Dual Screen vs. MythTV vs. Mouse Focus

Redhat recently released a set of virtualized I/O devices for KVM, the kernel virtual machine. This short post will outline a method of converting a… Read More »Converting a Windows Vista KVM Virtual Machine to Redhat VirtIO Drivers