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Are you a Linux or Java geek looking for a phone?

Marc Nozell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:49:16 +0000

If so, then you *need* to get a Droid.

I think of the Motorola Droid as an “always on portable computer with G3, WiFi, GPS, Blutetooth, audio in/out, microSD, compass, accelerometer, keyboard and a reasonable size touch screen.” Oh, and you can make phone call with it too.

The open source dev tools for Linux/Windows/Mac integrate with eclipse and includes the can’t-say-Java-but-that-is-what-it-is compiler & runtime. Nice desktop phone emulator for debugging and on the phone there is a reasonable USB-based debugging tool. It was straight forward to compile some of the sample projects and put it on my phone.

My top 10 Android apps

Marc Nozell — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:53:55 +0000

Everyone seems to have a top 10 list of Droid apps, so here is what is currently installed on mine:

Useful, go get:

Advanced Task Killer Free — very simple way to kill of apps that are left hanging around
AppManager — nice way to manage your apps includes info on space used and can uninstall apps
Barcode Scanner — used by other scanning apps
Battery Graph — track battery level
Book Mobile — scan ISBN from a book and have it added to your google book list. Sometimes it can’t add to the list on google.
Color Blindness Test — I’m red/green deficient
ConnectBot — ssh client
Divide and Conquer! — fun game
DroidLight — handy flashlight replacement, turns on camera flash
Foursquare — silly GPS location ‘game’
GDocs Notepad with Sync — little note taker that stores up on google docs
GDocs — not written by Google, but lets you get to your google docs
GeoBeagle — Excellent geocaching app, highly recommended,
Goggles — Take a picture of something and google will try to identify it, works best with books, logos, etc. By Google.
Google Sky Map — Very cool reality enhancement. Go out at night and hold the droid up to the sky to see names and info about stars, planets, etc. By Google.
Hypnotic Spiral — silly toy
Maps (Google) — Excellent interface. By Google.
Moon Phases — handy
My Tracks — Notes GPS tracks and uploads to both Google Docs and Google Maps, very handy for tramping around in the woods
NetCounter — track network traffic on 3G network vs WiFi network
Network Discovery — Sort of a nmap port to the android that lets you find out what else is on your network. Integrates with ConnectBot to ssh to servers.
Oblique Strategies — a Classic.
Places Directory (Google) — Show lists of what is nearby you. By Google.
Ringdroid — create ringtones from any mp3
Sand Blaster — physics simulation game similar to Powder
Seesmic — Nice twitter client
Show Accelerometer — toy to show off the accelerometer
Spark — toy
The Weather Channel — nice weather app with widget interface too.
ThinkFree Mobile
tickr — surprising handy Flickr slideshow app that needs a bit more polish
Voice Recorder — Excellent free voice recorder, integrates into email to send or upload audio recordings
Waze — fun mapping/directions tool that also has a game element (munch dots on untraveled roads)
WiFi OnOff — widget to turn on/off the Wifi from the homepage

Handy, will likely stay on the phone

androidVNC — VNC to linux boxes. Servicable, but tricky connecting to a 2 monitor system.
AK Notepad
Banshee Remote — requires downloading and running a little python server on the Linux box running Banshee. Could be handy, but may not fit how I listen to music.
Bluetooth File Transfer
Documents To Go
Dolphin Browser
Evernote
Favorite Recipes
iSilo — I use this on my palm pilot, may be useful.
NPR News
Photoshop.com Mobile
Pandora
Qik
SAT Vocabulary

Not fully evaluated

Aldiko
Amazed
Androbex
Android Network RSS
Beelicious
CompassNavi
Contact Owner
Craigslist
Flickr Photo Frame
Gmote
GPS Status
Hyperspace LITE
Layar
Listen
MeteorLiteWVGA
NewRob
On Air
OpenLoopz for Android
Opera Mini
Owner
PalmBookReader
Plasma Puddle
RaySpy
Reader
ScoreNinja
Shot
Simple GPS
Slacker
SmartTraining
SnapPhoto
StreamFurious
SwiftTweets
SystemMonitor
Trap!
Ustream Broadcaster
Ustream Viewer Beta
Where

Stormtrooper off duty at Nashua Winter Stroll

Marc Nozell — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:34:18 +0000

Stormtrooper off duty at Nashua Winter Stroll, originally uploaded by marcn.

Woman seated in a chair, with a man

Marc Nozell — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:34:03 +0000

Woman seated in a chair, with a man, originally uploaded by marcn.

Wildcat Falls in Autumn (HDR)

Marc Nozell — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:46:33 +0000

Wildcat Falls in Autumn (HDR), originally uploaded by marcn.

Across the street at Wildcat Falls.

This photo was created from three RAW files using qtpfsgui.

Spencer, freshmen class of 2013

Marc Nozell — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:47:49 +0000

Spencer, freshmen class of 2013, originally uploaded by marcn.

Good luck!

Panorama of pro/anti health care protesters @ Carol Shea-Porter Town Hall

Marc Nozell — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:04:14 +0000

Spencer and I got there too late to get into the Carol Shea-Porter Townhall meeting in Manchester yesterday.

Here are some photos of the pro/anti protesters outside: Protesters at Rep. Carol Shea-Porter’s Townhall meeting

SheevaPlug is now my main home server

Marc Nozell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:04:40 +0000

I’m finally at the point where the little SheevaPlug can replace the aging Compaq DeskPro EN that has been our main home server.

Functions:

mail hub
network print server
scan server
mp3 file server
system monitor
proxy server

Here are the detailed steps needed to convert this $99 low power server into something useful:

Connect to the SheevaPlug console

* Connect the mini-USB/USB cable to a handy Linux box
* Load the appropriate kernel module:
sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x9e88 product=0x9e8f
* Install gtkterm if you don’t already have it:
apt-get install gtkterm
* Configure gtkterm to connect to port /dev/ttyUSB1 (or whatever the SheevaPlug reports as, ls /dev/ttyUSB* to find out)
* Power up and watch the boot

= Start with Martin’s file system =

See the excellent description of getting the Debian/Lenny filesystem snapshot that Martin Michlmayr has provided:
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/unpack.html

In addition to building an MMC card with the initial Debian file system, also upgrade the firmware to the one provided by user kwonsk at the PlugComputer.org forum. You will likely need to install the tftp server somewhere on your network — apt-get install tftpd and put the u-boot.bin binary in /srv/tftp/

= Initial steps =

* Login as root via the console change the root password: passwd * Note the ip address (/sbin/ifconfig eth0ntpdate pool.ntp.org
* Change the ssh keys:
rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host* ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N "" Generating public/private dsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key. Your public key has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub. The key fingerprint is: b0:25:d2:d8:5c:89:9c:07:bc:94:cf:be:26:d5:ee:66 root@debian The key's randomart image is: +--[ DSA 1024]----+ | o.=.. | | =B.o | | o.*=. | | ..=o | | ..S. | | o . | | . o | | . o E | | o +. | +-----------------+ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N "" Generating public/private rsa key pair. Your identification has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key. Your public key has been saved in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub. The key fingerprint is: 4f:e4:64:bc:bc:20:5b:3c:7d:8a:5f:b9:70:9c:e2:b5 root@debian The key's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | | | . | | = | | . B . | | . S * . | | + * = o | | . . * B | | o * o | | o E | +-----------------+

* Unless you live in the same region as Martin, change /etc/apt/sources.list to use a closer Debian repository:
perl -pi~ -e 's/ftp.at/ftp.us/' /etc/apt/sources.list

* Same with timezone and locale: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata && dpkg-reconfigure locales

* Pick a hostname, I’m using lordshiva
perl -pi~ -e 's/debian/lordshiva/' /etc/hostname hostname -F /etc/hostname

* Update/Upgrade
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

* Add users adduser marc, etc

= Initial tools =

Add openntpd to keep the time in sync

apt-get install openntpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: openntpd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/45.7kB of archives. After this operation, 188kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package openntpd. (Reading database ... 16890 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking openntpd (from .../openntpd_3.9p1-7_armel.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up openntpd (3.9p1-7) ... Starting openntpd: ntpd.

So you don’t get tempted to use root all the time, get sudo and add appropriate user accounts:

apt-get install sudo Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: sudo 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 180kB of archives. After this operation, 438kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main sudo 1.6.9p17-2 [180kB] Fetched 180kB in 1s (140kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package sudo. (Reading database ... 16906 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking sudo (from .../sudo_1.6.9p17-2_armel.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up sudo (1.6.9p17-2) ... No /etc/sudoers found... creating one for you. lordshiva# visudo add a line line this: marc ALL=(ALL) ALL

Log out as root and reconnect as your new username to continue.

= Handy tools =

Install a number of handy tools: emacs (without X), usbutils, telnet, rsync, screen, htop

marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo apt-get install emacs22-nox rsync screen htop sudo: unable to resolve host lordshiva


We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System

Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
    #1) Respect the privacy of others.

    #2) Think before you type.

    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for marc: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacsen-common libasound2 Suggested packages: emacs22-el emacs22-common-non-dfsg libasound2-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-nox emacsen-common htop libasound2 rsync screen 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 18.5MB of archives. After this operation, 63.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

= The avahi daemon =

Avahi is handy on small home networks because it lets you refer to systems with DHCP provided address by name without having to update everyone’s /etc/hosts file. eg: ssh lordshiva.local

sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dbus dbus-x11 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-core5 libdaemon0 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libnss-mdns libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 Suggested packages: avahi-autoipd The following NEW packages will be installed: avahi-daemon dbus dbus-x11 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-core5 libdaemon0 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libnss-mdns libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1721kB of archives. After this operation, 7250kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

= Making the SheevaPlug a printserver =

I have an hp PSC 1510 All-in-One printer/scanner that I want to share to the other workstations at home.

Install cups which pulls in a ton of other packages as well as the open source print management tools from Hewlett-Packard, hplip

marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo apt-get install cups hplip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: avahi-utils cpp cpp-4.3 cups-client cups-common cupsddk cupsddk-drivers defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters gconf2 gconf2-common ghostscript ghostscript-x gksu gnome-keyring gs-common gs-esp gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme hpijs hplip-data hplip-gui libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libaudio2 libavahi-client3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libcairo2 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdrm2 libexif12 libffi5 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglu1-mesa libgmp3c2 libgnome-keyring0 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libgs8 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libice6 libidl0 libieee1284-3 libjpeg62 liblcms1 libltdl3 libmng1 libmpfr1ldbl libmysqlclient15off liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper-utils libpaper1 libperl5.10 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libpoppler3 libqt3-mt libqt4-assistant libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libsane libsane-extras libsensors3 libslp1 libsm6 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libstartup-notification0 libsysfs2 libtalloc1 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 libwbclient0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxxf86vm1 mysql-common openssl openssl-blacklist poppler-utils psfontmgr psmisc python-dbus python-elementtree python-gobject python-imaging python-qt3 python-qt4 python-qt4-common python-reportlab python-sip4 python-support qt4-qtconfig samba-common sane-utils smbclient ssl-cert ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-dustin x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common xauth xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils Suggested packages: cpp-doc gcc-4.3-locales cups-bsd cups-driver-gutenprint xpdf-korean xpdf-japanese xpdf-chinese-traditional xpdf-chinese-simplified cups-pdf kdeprint gtklp cups-pt xpp defoma-doc dfontmgr foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-db-gutenprint foo2zjs cupsys foomatic-gui hpijs-ppds hplip-doc openprinting-ppds nas libfreetype6-dev gphoto2 gtkam librsvg2-common liblcms-utils ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc libqt3-mt-psql libqt4-dev hpoj lm-sensors slpd openslp-doc ca-certificates python-dbus-dbg python-dbus-doc python-elementtree-doc python-gobject-dbg python-imaging-doc python-imaging-dbg python-qt3-doc python-qt3-gl python-qt4-dbg pdf-viewer python-egenix-mxtexttools python-reportlab-doc unpaper smbfs Recommended packages: libft-perl cupsys-client lpr lprng pdq rlpr python-renderpm The following NEW packages will be installed: avahi-utils cpp cpp-4.3 cups cups-client cups-common cupsddk cupsddk-drivers defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters gconf2 gconf2-common ghostscript ghostscript-x gksu gnome-keyring gs-common gs-esp gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme hpijs hplip hplip-data hplip-gui libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libaudio2 libavahi-client3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libcairo2 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdrm2 libexif12 libffi5 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglu1-mesa libgmp3c2 libgnome-keyring0 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libgs8 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libice6 libidl0 libieee1284-3 libjpeg62 liblcms1 libltdl3 libmng1 libmpfr1ldbl libmysqlclient15off liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper-utils libpaper1 libperl5.10 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libpoppler3 libqt3-mt libqt4-assistant libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libsane libsane-extras libsensors3 libslp1 libsm6 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libstartup-notification0 libsysfs2 libtalloc1 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 libwbclient0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxxf86vm1 mysql-common openssl openssl-blacklist poppler-utils psfontmgr psmisc python-dbus python-elementtree python-gobject python-imaging python-qt3 python-qt4 python-qt4-common python-reportlab python-sip4 python-support qt4-qtconfig samba-common sane-utils smbclient ssl-cert ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-dustin x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common xauth xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils 0 upgraded, 163 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 123MB of archives. After this operation, 332MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Setup the printer:

marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo hp-setup -i -a


HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.6b)

Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 7.2
Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it

under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
--------------------------

| CHOOSE CONNECTION TYPE |

--------------------------
  Num.        Connection  Connection Type Description

              Type

  ----------  ----------  ----------------------------------------

  0*          usb         Universal Serial Bus (USB)

  1           net         Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct

                          connection or JetDirect)

  2           par         Parallel Port (LPT:)                    
Enter number 0...2 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 
Using connection type: usb
--------------------

| DEVICE DISCOVERY |

--------------------
Using device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY5CFD14F40498
Setting up device: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY5CFD14F40498
---------------------

| PRINT QUEUE SETUP |

---------------------
Using queue name: PSC_1500
Found a possible PPD file: drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-psc_1500_series-hpijs.ppd

Desc: HP PSC 1500 series Foomatic/hpijs
Adding print queue to CUPS:

Device URI: hp:/usb/PSC_1500_series?serial=MY5CFD14F40498

Queue name: PSC_1500

PPD file: drv:///hpijs.drv/hp-psc_1500_series-hpijs.ppd

Location:

Information: Automatically setup by HPLIP
---------------------

| PRINTER TEST PAGE |

---------------------
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.6b)

Testpage Print Utility ver. 5.1
Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it

under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
warning: hp-testpage should not be run as root.
Printing test page to printer PSC_1500...

request id is PSC_1500-1 (1 file(s))

Test page has been sent to printer.
note: If an error occured, or the test page failed to print, refer to the HPLIP website

note: at: http://hplip.sourceforge.net for troubleshooting and support.
Done.

Done. marc@lordshiva:~$

Now you want to be able to manage the print server remotely via the web interface, so you’ll have to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

sudo $EDITOR /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
…find the three places that look like this:
Location /
Location /admin
Location /admin/conf

and add the following after the “Order allow,deny” lines:

Allow @LOCAL

Also change the line from:
Listen localhost:631
to
Port 631

Then restart the cups daemon: sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart


How you will be able to use a web browser to manage your system here:   http://lordshiva.local:631/  using your root credentials.  In the "Manager Server" section, enable "Share published printers connected to this system"
= scan server =
The tools xsane and gimp can take advantage of a network sane scanner.  To enable this, edit /etc/sane.d/scand.conf and add either the hostnames you'll be scanning from our a netblock.
Then tell inetd to start listening on the sane-port (6566)

marc@lordshiva:/etc/sane.d$ sudo update-inetd --enable sane-port

Now all you need to do on the system you are going to scan from, edit /etc/sane.d/net.conf and add lordshiva.local (or whatever you named yours ;-)

= Sharing MP3 =

gnump3d is a nice tool to share mp3 files on the home network.

Downloaded gnump3d-3.0.tar.gz from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/index.html

which needs make…

sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install make Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: make-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: make 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/385kB of archives. After this operation, 1233kB of additional disk space will be used.

Back to gnump3…

cd /usr/src/ sudo tar zxvf ~/gnump3d-3.0.tar.gz cd gnump3d-3.0 sudo make install install -d //etc/gnump3d install -d //usr/bin install -d //usr/share/gnump3d install -d //usr/local/man/man1 install -d /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/plugins install -d /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/lang install -d //var/log/gnump3d install -d //var/cache/gnump3d chmod 777 //var/cache/gnump3d install -d //var/cache/gnump3d/serving chmod 777 //var/cache/gnump3d/serving chmod a+rx /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/ chmod a+rx /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/plugins chmod a+rx /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/lang cp lib/gnump3d/*.pm /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d cp lib/gnump3d/plugins/*.pm /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/plugins rm /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/plugins/bug.pm rm: cannot remove `//usr/share/perl5/gnump3d/plugins/bug.pm': No such file or directory make: [install] Error 1 (ignored) cp lib/gnump3d/lang/*.pm /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/lang cp bin/gnump3d2 //usr/bin chmod 755 //usr/bin/gnump3d2 ln -sf //usr/bin/gnump3d2 //usr/bin/gnump3d cp bin/gnump3d-top //usr/bin chmod 755 //usr/bin/gnump3d-top cp bin/gnump3d-index //usr/bin chmod 755 //usr/bin/gnump3d-index cp man/gnump3d-top.1 //usr/local/man/man1 cp man/gnump3d-index.1 //usr/local/man/man1 cp man/gnump3d.1 //usr/local/man/man1 cp man/gnump3d.conf.1 //usr/local/man/man1 cp -R templates/* //usr/share/gnump3d chmod -R a+r //usr/share/gnump3d chmod +rx //usr/share/gnump3d/*/ if [ -e //etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf ]; then cp //etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf //etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf-orig ; fi sed "s#PLUGINDIR#`perl bin/getlibdir`#g" etc/gnump3d.conf > //etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf cp etc/mime.types //etc/gnump3d cp etc/file.types //etc/gnump3d rm -f /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/FreezeThaw.pm rm -f /`perl bin/getlibdir`/gnump3d/playlist.pm marc@lordshiva:/usr/src/gnump3d-3.0$

Now to configure gnump3 is pretty simple, edit /etc/gnump3d/gnump3d.conf and set root = /media/mp3 or wherever the music is.

To start it up:

sudo gnump3d &

Then point a browser to http://lordshiva.local:8888/ and listen or download music. This comes in very handy for the kids when they need to load up their mp3 players.

= monitoring system =

I like to use munin to keep an eye on how the home systems are doing.

sudo apt-get install munin munin-node munin-plugins-extra apache2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-common gawk libapr1 libaprutil1 libdate-manip-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-multiplex-perl libnet-cidr-perl libnet-server-perl libnet-snmp-perl libpq5 librrd4 librrds-perl rrdtool Suggested packages: apache2-doc apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom libipc-sharedcache-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libcrypt-des-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl httpd libwww-perl liblwp-useragent-determined-perl libnet-irc-perl mysql-client smartmontools acpi lm-sensors ethtool libdbd-pg-perl logtail libnet-netmask-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apache2.2-common gawk libapr1 libaprutil1 libdate-manip-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-multiplex-perl libnet-cidr-perl libnet-server-perl libnet-snmp-perl libpq5 librrd4 librrds-perl munin munin-node munin-plugins-extra rrdtool 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2144kB/5263kB of archives. After this operation, 14.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Now setup munin-node to know what to monitor locally. I like to run munin-node-configure with the –shell option to see what my choices are and then cut-n-paste the ones I’m interested in.

marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo munin-node-configure --shell --families=auto && sudo munin-node-configure --shell --families=contrib && sudo munin-node-configure --shell --families=manual

And then just pick: (jump into a root shell first, sudo -i)
ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/apt /etc/munin/plugins/apt ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/apt_all /etc/munin/plugins/apt_all ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/df_abs /etc/munin/plugins/df_abs ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/fw_packets /etc/munin/plugins/fw_packets ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/multips /etc/munin/plugins/multips ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/munin_graph /etc/munin/plugins/munin_graph ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/munin_update /etc/munin/plugins/munin_update ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_8888 ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_ipp ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_munin ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_sane-port ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_smtp ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_ssh ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_sunrpc ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/port_ /etc/munin/plugins/port_www ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/uptime /etc/munin/plugins/uptime

And restart munin-node

sudo /etc/init.d/munin-node restart Stopping Munin-Node: done. Starting Munin-Node: done.

Come back later and look at http://lordshiva.local/munin/

= fetchmail =

I pull email from my web hoster, drop a copy of the email and forward a copy to gmail use procmail.

sudo apt-get install fetchmail procmail marc@lordshiva:~$ sudo apt-get install fetchmail procmail [sudo] password for marc: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done procmail is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: ca-certificates Suggested packages: fetchmailconf resolvconf The following NEW packages will be installed: ca-certificates fetchmail 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 813kB of archives. After this operation, 2597kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

My fetchmail configuration looks like this:

cat ~/.fetchmailrc set logfile /home/marc/fetchmail.log

poll pop.nozell.com with proto POP3 timeout 600 user 'XXX@XXXX.XXX' there with password 'XXX' is 'marc' here options fetchall

And here is my .procmailrc

cat .procmailrc LOGFILE=/home/marc/procmail.log MAILDIR=ImapFolders


:0

{

	:0 c

	! nozell@gmail.com

}

:0 Unsorted.Inbox.`date +%Y-%m`

= reconfigure the local mail server =

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-conf

And pick the smarthost option and point it to the appropriate upstream mail server.

= squid =

sudo apt-get install squid Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: squid-common Suggested packages: squidclient squid-cgi logcheck-database resolvconf winbind The following NEW packages will be installed: squid squid-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 497kB/1224kB of archives. After this operation, 6816kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Marc Nom Nom Nom

Marc Nozell — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:44:44 +0000

Marc Nom Nom Nom, originally uploaded by marcn.

More photos from Rock N Ribfest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157620002788046/

1st annual VMS Reunion

Marc Nozell — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:09:58 +0000

VMS Quilt, originally uploaded by marcn.

Last night’s VMS Reunion in Nashua was great fun. My very first VMS manager that I had right out of college was there and first person I ever saw carry a cell phone (circa 1988).

Thanks to Susan Skonetski for setting it all up!

More photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157618959630572/