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Configuring Gitweb on Ubuntu

I’ve been digging into Git more lately as a revision control system for my personal stuff, and wanted a nice GUI way to visualize diffs in a browser. Enter Gitweb. I poked around and found bits and pieces of tutorials, … Continue reading

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New Router, Asus WL-500gP2 and Tomato

Last Sunday, I woke up to a dead Internet connection. Gmail, Cnn, ESPN, all wouldn’t load. Great. Checked the laptop wireless, no connection. Even better. Power cycled the cable modem and connected the laptop directly to it, and voila, I … Continue reading

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RAID array monitoring at home

Ever since I started using a simple RAID-1 setup at home, the only verification I had done to check on the status of the array was issuing some commands by hand on the command line.  I finally got around to … Continue reading

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Dual Head Nvidia in Ubuntu Linux 8.10

I recently blew away my desktop machine and installed the new Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Intepid Ibex released today. Since I have two monitors at home (2 x 21″ Samsung 213T LCD’s), I normally use a dual-head setup. Easily enough there … Continue reading

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