My last post about this restoration project was a pretty big one. I’m thinking it’s a better idea to post about my progress in smaller steps and thus this post will be much shorter. Since last time I’ve taken on the brakes: they’ve been disassembled, cleaned, polished and greased. Here’s the before shot of the [...]
I’ve been wanting to set up a “pure” IPsec VPN using racoon for a while now. Part just for fun, part because I can. I spent a weekend on it once a while back, didn’t make much progress, got sick of trying to figure out cryptic racoon debug output and then gave up (more pressing [...]
The last post I made about this winter project was a while ago. Since then I’ve made some great progress. So far I’ve only focused on cleaning up the easy stuff: getting rust off of the wheels, handle bars and neck, and the break and gear leavers. All the grunt work that no one likes [...]
First if you’re new to the Amazon MP3 downloader and you’re running Debian check out the howto on the Ubuntu forums. It’s very helpful. Now on to my complaints (that’s what blogs are for right?) I think it’s pretty cool that Amazon released their MP3 downloader program for Linux. That’s about the only nice thing [...]
Now that I’ve got my ALIX system up and running Lenny, it’s time to tweak the configuration. One of the things I liked best about the Voyage distribution is its use of tmpfs for the directories that receive a lot of writes to minimize the IO on the compact flash (CF) card. The reason for [...]
In my last post I linked to the howto forge article that gives detailed instructions for installing Debian on a PCEngines WRAP system. After playing with Voyage Linux on my new ALIX system (the successor to the WRAP) I decided that I would be better of going with the stock Debian Lenny (5.0). The cool [...]
