Update Day

Well today was update day, spent most of the day playing GH3 though :)

So I decided to update some software and install the rest of my most used applications. Starting with, Banshee, songbird, mp3 support, preload, prelink, thunderbird, freepats, gcc, build-essntial, clusterssh, rkhunter, chkrootkit, htop, bmpx, vlc, emacs and abiword. Who has the time for open office to load ehh???

So first things first, protect myself, installed firestarter, then enable highest protection settings allowing only minor services like ident though with httpd being redirected by my hardware router anyway to another box itś not a lot of things I need to allow software wise. rkhunter and chkrootkit are nice malware scanners that I run quite regularly to be sure I safe, itś not like windows where popup start going everywhere when something goes wrong, itś more hidden in OSS software as hackers want to stay hidden form view.

Songbird actually installed flawlessly now in two simple commands unlike before.
Preload helps with cache speed as I low on ram, same with prelink but they only make minor differences,, which are noticed when running on only 512 mb ram of course.

X-chat on the other hand is another story, simple binary works fine, but no luck on the newest build, tried compiling with all kinds of errors, might take a little while to work on that one.

Another Day of Ubuntu, another day of pleasure of not having all kinds of issues :D

Conky

Well today I went for a walk first thing in the morning as it wasn´t raining for once amazingly!

So I decided to get conky up and running today after much work I did. Well editing it is almost done, need to get temps working and a mp3 player status message.

Here´s a screenshot so far.



Once I get this done and running smoothly I won have to worry about runaway processes or overloading my system. If I just had a bit more ram it might be nice. But my Raid is running nice and smooth, to bad I never did it with a pair of 120´s as originally planned. space may be an issue after a bit of downloading, better keep offloading torrents to my Etch box from now on.

Tomorrow I may tackle system security and get a firewall up and running to keep me protected as I now have firefox running the way I like.

New O/S

Yes you heard right. I now have a new O/S. Well technically it´s the same version just a re-installation.

I finally broke down and decided to install RAID. After what appeared to be hours of searching for information on setting up mdadm and how to use software raid in Ubuntu I decided to flatten my system and do a complete installation.

It took me about an hour to do the full installation and get most if not all of my main applications up and running the same way they were before.

Steps:

1. BACKUP
2. BACKUP EVERYTHING in you home directory to another location. In My case another system I have running Samba on here.
3. Make another backup using Home System Backup Application found in Add/Remove
4. Do an installation and choose text mode
5. When you get to the Hard Drive partition section following tutorial after adapting it to me needs.
6. Copy you home directory back over and get all you settings back.
7. You are COMPLETE

Well that was fun and now I have a backup encase I mess things up again or a hard drive fails :)