Monthly Archives: May 2009

How to clean up photos of whiteboards with Gimp

Posted on May 29, 2009 by matthew

Here is a thumbnail of a picture of a whiteboarding session taken with my iPhone. It’s basically unreadable. I looked for a good recipe to clean this up in gimp, but the googles failed me. After playing with a bunch … Continue reading →

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Installing CrashPlan on Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition

Posted on May 19, 2009 by matthew

Although rsnapshot is super for linux-to-linux backups, I’ve found CrashPlan to work very well as a backup solution for my family’s windows and mac boxes. The CrashPlan installation works pretty well on ubuntu desktop edition, as all the necessary packages … Continue reading →

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Samba problems with Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on May 18, 2009 by matthew

I was trying to set up samba with a new Ubuntu 9.04 (“Jaunty Jackalope”) box, and was frustrated when windows failed to connect to the [homes] share I had enabled. It turns out that even if you comment out all … Continue reading →

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Installing Ubuntu from a USB Drive

Posted on May 7, 2009 by matthew

I just bought a new green server (25-30 watts at full load!) and wanted a brand-new Jaunty experience. The MSI Wind Nettop doesn’t come with an optical disk drive, nor does it come with IDE support, so my old CDROM … Continue reading →

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