The World of a Penguin

I have finally started migrate my VHS tapes to hard drive. Last summer, I reconnected my Audio/Video-equipment so it became possible to record videos from the VHS-player on my KISS EPG. Now when I had a few days of between X-mas and New Year it was time to start the migration. I can say this will take some time. My flow is: Play a VHS-tape on the VCR and record it on the KISS. Transfer the video file from the KISS-player to the Ubuntu file-server. Cut the video with Avidemux to remove garbage and some times split in episodes etc. Put the file in the right place in the directory structure. Well, it will take some time to migrate all VHS-tapes. Fortunately, it does not require any manual work most of the time.

Have you tried to access an subversion-server using SSL in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)? I guess you get complains about certificate even if they are correct. It looks like this: svn list https://www.linuxalert.org/svn Error validating server certificate for 'https://www.linuxalert.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: www.linuxalert.org - Valid: from Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:30:25 GMT until Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:30:25 GMT - Issuer: Linux alert, Linkoping, SE - Fingerprint: e4:8f:b9:1b:f3:6c:f4:83:2a:1f:c6:9c:6d:cf:6a:4b:99:9e:22:1d (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? I have my certificate installed. The solution was to install subversion and libsvn1 from backports in 8.04 (Hardy) . $ sudo dpkg -i subversion_1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2~hardy2_amd64.deb libsvn1_1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2~hardy2_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 226839 files and directories cu...

Here is a story about two weeks of frustration installing a new server. I have never had that much problem installing a computer in my life and I have installed hundreds of them. A few weeks before I left Sweden for a three week trip in southern Africa I noted that I was out of disk on my server. I decided to wait by more disk until I got back home. Therefore I moved some data temporary to my workstation. When I got home a few weeks ago I ordered a new motherboard and hard drive. I decided to go for the brand new Intel mini-ITX atom based motherboard D945GCLF2 with 2GB memory and a Western Digital Green Power 1TB S-ATA drive . This made the new computer cheap and green. Misco delivered the stuff fast. When I had assembled the stuff it did not boot, the screen was black and I couldn't enter the BIOS-setup. I Removed all cables, including the hard drive. The mother board worked fine. Tested with another old S-ATA drive and it worked fine. It was with Western Digitals Green Power t...

Adobe has finally released a 64-bit version of the flash player. Still alpha but a step forward. Looking forward to see this in next Ubuntu. This will definitely make my workstation work better.

Ubuntu 8.10 is released and I have already installed it on my desktop. My server have to wait since I plan to upgrade the hardware so it becomes a 64-bit system and give it SATA-disks. The upgrading went smoothly.

The more I use Hibernate in Java the more I love Storm in Python. It is so easy and light weight. A while ago I installed Tiny Tiny RSS on my Ubuntu server and is happy to use it as my RSS reader. First I thought it was slow, but it is easy to fix. Activate the expire module: a2enmod expires Create a file /etc/apache2/conf.d/expires: ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 weeks" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 weeks" Finally restart your apache. Your webbrowser will now cache all icons and gif-pictures.

I have, like most of us, a lot of documents that can be hard to find. The folder system is not god enough. Some documents like those that is about the economy related to my house. I want to put them in two folders; the house folder and the economy folder. Of course, it can be done by links but it is not a good solution. I have for a long time thought about getting my own document management system. Unfortunately I haven't really understand what I wanted. Now I think I know, I want Paperbox .