An excellent step-by-step howto on a little-known but powerful feature of Debian’s very sophisticated installer. Boot an ISO image, set up networking and complete an installation remotely via SSH.
Debian Squeeze 6.0 Installation Over SSH
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Debian Squeeze 6.0 Installation Over SSH
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Tip: Fixing Linux Audio Failure
Linux audio is powerful and flexible, and annoying as heck. When you have no sound it can be as simple as Alsamixer resetting everything to mute when you shutdown (Why? Who the heck knows) to problems caused by device conflicts, and our ever-popular friends* Java and Adobe Flash. Java and Flash need drama in their lives, so they break things to get attention.
If you have sound at startup, and then sound quits sometime during your session, the lsof (“list open files”) command will tell you if a process has hijacked your audio. This example shows Java locking up my audio and not letting it go. First take a look in /dev/snd:
Read the rest of this Linux audio tip at Bookofaudactiy.com:
Posted in Sysadmin
Getting Canned: Dilbert, Office Space, and Layoffs
Yes, life really is a cartoon, and it is impossible to be too cynical. Nevertheless good things happen and life is good.
As you fine fellow LXerers know, I have been toiling since July 2008 as the estéamed Senior Managing Editor of Linux Today and Linux Planet. Not sure what “Senior” means; probably old, grumpy, and not worth a raise so I got a longer title instead. This week I was laid off, along with a number of my co-workers. Save your sympathy because while it sucks to be given the boot, it’s all good. I can’t say a whole lot without incurring the wrath of lawyers, so use your imagination to fill in the gaps. You’ll probably be close to the truth.
Running Linux Today and Linux Planet was a bi-polar experience…
Posted in Work
Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.1 released
March 19th, 2011
The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename “squeeze”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian 6.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 6.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.
Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won’t have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update…
Posted in Linux news
Soon!
Not much to see here yet, but hey we just launched. Soon there will be pretty graphics and juicy Linux news and howtos. Pull up a chair and set; there’s coffee and juice and a nice warm fire.
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