http://stochasticflux.com/blog public notepad... Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:04:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By default rubyripper points to the freedb server: http://freedb2.org:80.  I was finding that rubyripper would then fail to find a good number of cds that I could find when I searched the title on freedb.org.  The solution was to change the freedb server address in rubyripper's preferences to http://freedb.freedb.org:80 .  ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=14 Pallo has a great post on the Ubuntu mailing list on how to install the temperature module for new AMD 64 bit processors (link).  The issue is that every time the kernel is updated the module needs to be rebuilt as well.  I therefore wrote a quick bash script to ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=13 About a year ago I decided to finally pick up a laptop to more easily facilitate bringing my work home. After looking around at the options that were available I ended up with a Macbook. It simply appeared to be the cheapest solution given the specifications I wanted ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=12 Installing Octave on OS X (intel) with gnuplot. 1.) Install the pre-built binaries for octave from HPC Mac OS X 2.) Install aqua term 3.) The pre-built binaries for gnuplot do not seem to work adequatley with aqua term and octave at the current time, so download the source for the newest ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=11 The vast majority of my writting is done using gedit and latex. I have often thought it would be great to have a gedit plugin that would allow for a one button solution to converting the latex document into a pdf file and opening it in evince. I ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=10 For the past couple of years I have been running Smoothwall on an old pc I rescued from the dumpster. This has been a great method of securing my home network however living in a third floor apartment in the southern part of the United States heat can be ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=9 Waiting for me today when I got home was a nice surprise, the new Dapper CDs from Canonical. It appears as if the ShipIt service has gotten better along with the distribution. This is the first time I got the correct order fully intact, it was also the ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=6 With X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) and Ubuntu one is able to set up a thin client with very little effort. This is a great way to make use of an older computer that doesn't quite have the processing power needed to run a smooth system by itself. ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=4 A great adition to Linux has been the filesystem in user-space project FUSE which brings us SSHFS. One now has the ability to mount remote filesystems through ssh. Installing sshfs is easy with a simple sudo apt-get install sshfs. First one must add their user name to the fuse ... http://stochasticflux.com/blog/?p=3