OLF 2009

Wow! What a weekend! We had a great time again this year, no surprise. It’s always great to be able to hang out with all your friends and all you linux folk and TechShow listeners are my friends! My thoughts are still a bit disjointed from the weekend so here are some random notes about […]

New Music Server

Some of you might remember that I used to run GnuMP3d as my home music server of choice. While this is still a great choice, after my recent new server install, I had an interesting choice to make. The newest versions of GnuMP3d work fantastically like always, but they do not provide for any measure […]

Most unlikely BP install

It’s been a long time since I posted about BashPodder and this is great news. BashPodder seems to show up in the most unlikely of places. Today I got a letter from John C. pointing me to a post on how he uses BashPodder *on* his iPod Touch. I think this is absolutely brilliant. Make […]

Increase LVM Volume

I had the occasion to need some extra filespace on the LVM’d root partition of a RHEL(or CentOS) vm. This is how to do it: First off, VMWare allowed me to create a second HDD on the fly while the vm was running (YAY!) Once that was done, I rooted into the server and: # […]

Your chocolate in my peanut butter

Just thought it was worth a mention that BashPodder and LinuxPlanet happen to go together particularly well. Just grab a copy of BashPodder and in your bp.conf file put the rss feed for LinuxPlanet Casts (http://www.linuxplanet.org/casts/?feed=rss2) and you’re ready to rumble. You will get all the great podcasts who post to LinuxPlanet and because they […]