Wednesday
- Create an MP3 file server using Amarok and ObsidianMusic
- Simple, fast administration with Webmin
- FreeNX Server and Client Installation in Debian Etch
- PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhous
- The Dreamcast is Still Dead

Tuesday
We are trying something new. We are creating a 'Daily Links Edition' with which we can post links and other fun tidbits we find on the online during our daily procrastinations and meanderings on the cybernet. Read on for today's fun postings and how we hope it will work.

You might have read my story about my Powerbook failure due to Apple production problems (to which they still haven't addressed!). I have been using a borrowed iBook G4 on-the-go, with the powerbook docked at home. With a continuation of bad luck, the hard drive in the iBook died and has left me with some interesting problems. Read on about backing up the hard drive to an image using target disk mode, some hard drive failure signs and symptoms, diagnosing the failure and using a linux live cd/dvd until repair, and finally we may go into the actual replacement of the drive and restoration of the backup image.

In Slackware 12.0, USB plug and play support is not functional by default. In order to get such functionality working again, we will use a quick solution that will allow for use of HAL and enable KDE to recognize and automount our USB devices.

Today we will go through how to easily add a new (or old) hard drive to our server. We will specifically be using a Slackware box that serves up apache and a few others, but the principals remain essentially the same for another linux box such as Ubuntu.

We have been doing some site modifications which includes pretty much every aspect of mutaku.
Read on for a very brief post on what we are doing and what you can expect.

XMPP is an open technology for instant messaging and presence information. It provides the opportunity to build an open source and free messaging server to handle many applications in varied environments. We are going to setup a XMPP server on a LAN to handle communications between LAN and WAN contacts. By running our own server we can gain some insight into how XMPP and Jabber work, create an efficient and easy to use internal communications setup, connect our server to other servers and services including WAN communications, and last, but not least, we can have our own private communications using SSL. Read on for more on XMPP and how we actually set it all up.

Three coding projects are currently underway and are coming along nicely. Read on for news about Lab Order, MusicMorph, and inSOMniA...

Mutaku now accepts donations through paypal! If you like us and want to help the development continue, please consider making a small donation.

Almost a year ago, (of course after my warranty was up), I began getting colored vertical lines on my 17" G4 1.67GHz powerbook. Jump ahead a year, give or take, and I know have half of a function LCD display plus about 75 bright colored vertical lines. Apple's response, "Oh that is unfortunate because your warranty is up."

Read on for the whole story, my troubleshooting, my shocking google search results, and about how Apple is trying to keep our problem under the rug rather than dealing with the problem the way the company used to take care of it's customers....