debian

HOWTO: convert an AVI or to DVD (VOB) in Linux

Posted August 1, 2008 by phil & filed under geek, howto, movies, music.

I have some AVIs that I needed to get into the VOB format so I could burn them to DVD. I knew I could do this in Linux, but didn’t know how. Here is how I did it with Debian GNU/Linux (testing – Lenny). First I installed the GTK+ app, Avidemux (don’t worry, we’ll get… Read more »

HOWTO: fix fonts in Debian Lenny/Sid

Posted July 17, 2008 by phil & filed under geek.

UPDATE: also, before you try this, make sure you have some good fonts installed, after a fresh install of Lenny at work, I needed to run this first: apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts After a…slight slip up, I finally had the chance to install Linux from scratch on my laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) the way I’ve… Read more »

HOWTO: automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian

Posted May 27, 2008 by phil & filed under geek, linux.

If you’re like me, you’ve messed up your xorg.conf before and wanted to start over with the default that you know dpkg-reconfigure can set it to. Because of this I’m posting here because I’ve needed it multiple times in the past and have tired of looking it up! To automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian or… Read more »

HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny)

Posted February 25, 2008 by phil & filed under geek, howto.

With all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after hibernation. It goes to sleep fine, it wakes up fine, it obeys all of the power preferences I defined within Gnome fine too, it’s just that when it comes out of… Read more »

HOWTO: use monit to keep Lighttpd and Varnish running

Posted February 19, 2008 by phil & filed under geek, howto.

Thanks to a post from Steve over at debian-administration.org, I finally got around to setting up monit, the little monitoring app we use at work to keep things sane. I was getting around to installing it at home, but it became more urgent when Varnish went down last week; without it running there’s nothing to… Read more »