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0. Buy a MacBook. I suggest 120Gb HD and 1 or 2GB RAM. Buy an Upgrade version of Windows XP (so long as you have an older Windows CD)–My cost $99. Buy an external CD-Rom drive with USB connection–My cost $40. Find two blank CD-Rs (one for XP Drivers, one for Debian Etch Net [...]

Sounds like somebody needs to build themselves a MythTV. Joe writes…
I just read TiVo’s Privacy Policy and it’s quite arcane. Further, trying to change your privacy preferences isn’t easy. Begin bitchy rant now…

Actually, I’ve thought that almost the opposite of the problem Joe describes (that of personally-identifiable viewing information, PIVI, being collected) faces MythTV. I [...]

UNIX apparently has a dircmp program that will compare two directories and tell you where they differ. This is useful if you want to ensure that two directories are identical or nearly so. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places, but I can’t find dircmp for Debian. Instead, I think this works:
diff -r –brief dir1 [...]

1. You should be using Firefox to browse the web.
2. One reason is how many add-on search engines you can add to the top right corner so that searching Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, eBay, Amazon, Flickr Tags, etc is just a click away and built right into the browser. It’s stunningly useful. Begin with Mozilla’s 23 popular [...]

Falko Timme at howtoforge.com has a number of excellent howtos on setting up GNU/Linux servers. I have learned much from using his Perfect Setup for Debian Sarge 3.1.
However, when I finish his perfect setup, there remain a few things that I think essential to do, particularly regarding security. There are an increasing number of dictionary [...]

r0ml writes,
Availability of the source code is probably only relevant to computer programmers. After all, if you aren’t a programmer, what would you do with source code? In which case, a freely copyable binary would be equivalent to freely copyable source code. The ability to do something with the source code (i.e. to create a [...]

The Debian Sarge net install for ppc doesn’t get sound working on the most recent Powerbooks. To make it work we need to apply Ben’s patch to the most recent kernel. This took me forever to figure out, but here it is in eight easy steps.
1. Download and prepare the Linux 2.6.11 source
cd /usr/src
wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.tar.bz2
tar [...]

Despite earlier concerns reported on Slashdot that the GPL might be particularly difficult to enforce in Germany, that country’s courts now hold the distinction of having enforced it twice. The first enforcement came in 2004 when Harald Welte of the netfilter/iptables core team sought to enjoin Sitecom from distributing its WL-122 router, which used netfilter’s [...]

I bought a 12″ G4 Powerbook on Mar. 13. (Tech details later).
I dual-boot OS X (10.3.7) and Debian GNU/Linux. What follows explains how you too can run Debian alongside OS X on this great-looking hardware. You also get 802.11g wireless!
Requirements:
0. G4 Powerbook & OS X CD. HOWTO for those built after 1-05.
1. Wired Ethernet [...]