http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:34:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago, Xeiso 0.1 was published on Launchpad with a tarball to download. It was a pretty quiet release; I had only published it because a few people were demanding a tar.gz to download instead of branching from Bazaar. It's rather primitive compared to the current revision of ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/08/15/zero-point-one-ish/ I'm too tired to write a clever opening for this post. There. Now that that's out of the way, let me introduce Xeiso. Xeiso is: A game console. An operating system. A bootable LiveCD. An intuitive interface. Open source. Time to elaborate: it will be an Ubuntu-based system with a custom interface with the goal of making ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/07/03/introducing-xeiso/ I was innocently minding my own business today, when all of a sudden I stared getting notices about identi.ca on Twitter. Judging by the activity over there, it seems there was a mass migration today. So far, it seems okay in terms of speed (but who knows what will happen once ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/07/02/identica/ Know of some users who might be new to the terminal and are willing to explore? I've made a cheat sheet for beginners and experts alike of frequently used (and frequently forgotten) commands in Hardy, including from new applications like ufw. Check it out below! Comments, suggestions? If you like it, ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/04/23/ubuntu-beginner-terminal-reference/ Hey! Going to be in Ohio this Saturday, April 26? Then come join us for an 8.04 release party! There are currently two locations that you can attend; the wiki page will be updated with any more: Easton (Panera Bread) Lima (Rhodes State College) Click the links above for driving directions and parking information. ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/04/21/ohio/ I met someone on IRC who had a difficult time understanding Ubuntu's release style, so I came up with the following: [jacob] Windows beta releases come in chunks [jacob] consider that like going down a river on a tour boat that stops at sites for a few days, then keeps going to ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/04/19/explaining-the-ubuntu-release-schedule/ This is the ckbw script I briefly mentioned earlier. Before going any deeper into the subject, realize that this script assumes some things about your system: You are using the "combined" Apache2 log format. Logs are stored as /home/username.logs/domainname.com.access.log and compatible logrotate (.1, .2, etc) equivalents. In a general sense, ckbw parses through ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/04/15/check-how-much-web-bandwidth-your-users-are-using/ I have no issues with DreamHost's service. Before I moved to a VPS provider, I was with them for all of my hosting. They had provided (and still do provide) great service and reliability for a shared host. Customer service for the most part is excellent, and gets things done ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/04/12/dreamfail/ I've decided my MOTD has gotten stale. What better to do with your free time than to look up escape sequences? Bringing annoyances to the terminal, one color code at a time. http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/03/10/motds-are-boring/ Yesterday morning at a hotel, I woke up to prepare for a presentation. I looked out the window and there was a light snow. No problem. Skip to noon of that day. A winter storm warning is in effect. 8 to 10 inches of snow expected. Okay, we can still make ... http://jacob.peddicord.net/blog/2008/03/08/snow/