Planet CrunchBang Linux

At work we setup Asterisk PBX phone systems along with our own Perl scripts for various purposes. Asterisk is an open source PBX phone system that works with Soft Phones and Hard Phones. I installed and setup Asterisk on my work laptop with a software VoixPhone (SIP/IAX). The one thing with Asterisk is that each [...]

Today exactly a month ago, our baby daughter Maire was born. She was 50cm and wheighed 3.480 kg. Today she's 54 cm and wheighs 4.180 kg. She's been doing very well, and we are (still) excited about the new life in our house. Obviously this means we have a lot less free time, but it's worth it. And because a picture says more than a thousand words, this is her:

Maire

Remote server installations or Custom distro: This is handy if you need to have preconfigured netinstall isos for remote installations of servers. Or maybe you just want to create a custom Debian based distro. At work I create these isos tailor made to suit our customers needs (more or less) then perform an automated remote installation. [...]

This is the error message that tells you Firefox is already running: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. To fix it you can usually just kill Firefox with: killall firefox-bin But sometimes it decides to be [...]

CHMOD is used to change permissions of a file.         PERMISSION      COMMAND             U   G   W         rwx rwx rwx     chmod 777 filename               rwx rwx r-x     chmod 775 filename         rwx r-x r-x     chmod 755 filename         rw- rw- r--     chmod 664 filename         rw- r-- r--     chmod 644 filename         U = User  [...]

HAVING spent three days in the company of an Apple iPad, I thought it might be helpful to give a more considered verdict on the gadget everyone is talking about.The Good...The minimalist, industrial-sleek design makes iPad hugely desirable - guests at the Auchrannie Hotel on Arran, where I was staying at the weekend, were eyeing it covetously.The screen display is beautiful: Fonts display better

A few days ago in a moment of clarity I realised I’ve lost interest in all my Linux projects. This includes amongst other things – development of my dtx scripts, the progress of squeeze and my commitments in several Linux communities. Does this mean I won’t use Linux? No, of course not, but all my

There is a nice gui and a patched notifyOSD available from leolik’s PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig Update source list sudo apt-get update Now install notifyosdconfig using the following command from your terminal sudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig Using notifyosdconfig Open notifyosdconfig from Applications -> Accessories -> NotifyOSD Configuration

Well I still have to redesign our company's website, and build a porch at home, and well...