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Networking UML under Debian

I recently needed to setup the networking on a Debian box with three network cards on three different networks, each assigned three IP addresses – two of which would be assigned to taps for UML hosts. It was actually a little more complex that I was expecting. Of the few configuration examples I’ve seen on the web, none [...]


Creating Debian apt backup CDs

It’s nearing the end of the year and the annual festival of dumping data to CD, possibly in advance of the traditional New Year Computer Reinstallation celebration. Of course, if you’re tracking Debian unstable or testing you probably don’t have full installation CDs. These are too dynamic to make it worth creating full CD installation sets. Usually buring a [...]


The Psychic Lazyweb

Leave your personal projects TODO file alone long enough and you discover someone has already done it for you: such as RSS feed of new debian packages. Now we have that and debian security alerts in RDF all I’m waiting for is an RDF interface to the Bug Tracking System.