overclockix

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 8:17 pm

i probably won’t be posting on here for some time as i am planning on dedicating my time working on overclockix in my free time. in case you do not know what overclockix is, it is a customized linux live distro (based on debian) which i am helping to revive. if you would like to [...]

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creating a raid 5 array in linux with mdadm

Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:05 am

i recently had a hard drive fail in my server. luckily i was running it in a raid 1 array so all of my data was kept safe. i decided that while i had a hard drive out of service that i might as well take some time to do some upgrading of my storage [...]

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upgrading to adobe flash player 10.2.161.22 (64 bit) on debian

Friday, September 17, 2010 at 9:02 am

as i mentioned in my previous blog article, adobe temporarily pulled 64 bit support for the 64 bit plugin. a few days ago (september 15) they released preview 1 of flash player 10.2. if you have followed the instructions in my previous article, upgrading is quite simple. if not, don’t worry, there are only a [...]

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installing adobe flash player 64 bit on debian

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 8:45 am

somewhat recently, adobe has pulled all support for 64 bit flash player on linux. debian has also remove the support from it’s non-free archives so the ‘flashplugin-nonfree’ package no longer works properly. i find that gnash and swfdec are pretty lacking and are not compatible with all websites which is a major problem for me. [...]

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