I recently put together an Intel Core 2 Dual Core, 4 GB RAM, 2×500 GB (Raid 1) Freebsd server to house videos, stream music, and export video to the XBOX 360 via uShare. The new kid on the block is XMMS2 for a server/client based music player. The server portion acts as a conduit for [...]

I use Linux and other Unices (BSD, OSX) everday and needed a script that would setup my configuration files. In unix most user defined configuration options are defined in a user’s home directory, but I wanted to keep them all under Subversion (version control rocks) and needed an easy way of copying them back [...]

There are many great choices to choose from for Source Control Management software (like Mercurial or SVN). At $work I have to use IBM’s ClearCase (CC). After using CC for the past five months, let me state simply that I would rather use CVS. What are the problems with ClearCase? For starters, CC does not [...]

Many of you know that I use Linux for my operating system instead of Windows. I am glad I use Gentoo as my distribution of choice. The X11R7 release of X.org will be split into multiple packages as a modular release. In total (and some optional) the number of packages will be [...]

Gentoo Linux has recently started a Planet. You can find my development blog over there.

My Geforce 2 video card died last week after 6 good long years of service. When something with video goes out I start to panic. Debugging what is wrong can be a real chore, and may lead to some pricy purchases if things are to get fixed. I tested the monitor with [...]