Archive for July, 2007

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

G.A.P. Part II - A Brief Review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 (macppc)

What follows is a rant/review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2. It’s the second part of the “Golden Apple Project” article series, which tells the tale of my quest to transform a formerly unused Apple PowerMac G4 (450Mhz, AGP Video) into something more useful than an unused OS 9 machine.
After a somewhat discouraging attempt at installing [...]

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Monday, July 30th, 2007

G.A.P. - The Golden Apple Project - Part I

The other day I acquired a hardly used PowerMac G4 from someone who was going to throw it out. Imagine that? It’s got a 450Mhz PPC CPU, 256MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and AGP video. Certainly this nice little machine can be used for something… But what?
Though I could probably get away with [...]

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Monday, July 16th, 2007

The Diner

So I went to a diner… (a diner called “The Diner”). It’s obviously a diner so it’s pretty obvious that that they sell is… “diner food”, right? You know… pancakes, burgers, eggs, coffee - you know… it’s a diner. Someone walked in and asked the chef what kind of food they served. Hahaha how do [...]

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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Designing BSD Rootkits (review)

I forgot to mention that I wrote a review for a book about designing BSD rootkits. You can find the review over at Daemon News

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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Using a 30G iPod Video With Linux

At first I thought this would be a simple thing to do. After all, linux has great FAT32 filesystem support right? All I would need to do is format my iPod for windows and then everything would be great… right?
Then I remembered that I don’t have windows running on any of my machines! [...]

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Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Not bad meaning bad but…

Bad meaning… good!  Haha I got this error while messing around with VMWare on my Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) system. I have Windows XP running as a guest OS and this “Error success” window popped up when I was trying to use Windows from within VMWare to format my iPod. It didn’t work (I found out [...]

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