Silliam » Linux http://www.silliam.com Just a few words... Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:03:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gentoo Mirror http://www.silliam.com/tech/gentoo-mirror http://www.silliam.com/tech/gentoo-mirror#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:07:58 +0000 silliam http://www.silliam.com/gentoo-mirror I just set up a full source gentoo mirror at mirror.silliam.com. I don’t know if gentoo would want my mirror added to their official pool since it is on shared hosting, so I haven’t submitted a bug report yet. However, I am going to use my mirror, and anyone else is free to use it. I have the bandwidth capped at 5TB, which works out to be about 15Mbit, I think. Anyways, my mirror syncs every four hours, starting at midnight PST using this command:

rsync --avHS --delete-excluded ftp.ussg.iu.edu::gentoo-distfiles /home/silliam/mirror.silliam.com/gentoo/

It then emails me the results of the command, hence the verbose flag (I like to see what files changed).

I am happy to mirror files for anybody, I have much more bandwidth than I could ever use. One of these days, I am going to build a nice python or php framework for mirroring files.

]]> http://www.silliam.com/tech/gentoo-mirror/feed 0 Fractal Backgrounds http://www.silliam.com/tech/fractal-backgrounds http://www.silliam.com/tech/fractal-backgrounds#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:26:25 +0000 silliam http://www.silliam.com/fractal-backgrounds I was recently motivated to make myself a really cool looking desktop background. My laptop has a 1280×800 display, so the images are in that resolution. If you want me to make a different resolution, just write a comment and I will be happy to oblige. One of these days I am going to write a short how-to complete with screenshots! The last one is my current background, and probably my favorite.

]]> http://www.silliam.com/tech/fractal-backgrounds/feed 1 Ripzilla is alive! http://www.silliam.com/tech/ripzilla-is-alive http://www.silliam.com/tech/ripzilla-is-alive#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:55:43 +0000 silliam http://www.silliam.com/?p=5 My Nakamichi Mj-5 and 14 bay SCSI tower is now alive and kicking as a 40 CD ripping machine! After many weeks of waiting and watching on eBay and a small effort on the part of my machinist friend, I have all of the components necessary for a CD ripping beast. Check out Ripzilla for my scripts, pictures of the project, and much more info.  It is amazing how well the Nakamichi Mj-5 works in linux.

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