I’ve recently got pissed off with people taking advantage of my server. First I noticed that there’s a load of people using download managers (up to 13 concurrent HTTP sessions!) to download my CM7 builds. So I’ve blocked them using: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:Range} !^$ RewriteRule ^.+$ - [F,L] Then I noticed some website was direct-linking to my downloads without even asking me, or giving credit, so after getting him to remove the link, I blocked him using a further redirect:

Well I finally got fed up of crackling audio and gnome-volume-control-applet crashing, so decided to install PulseAudio on my Wheezy system. I mostly copied from these instructions, which was basically: apt-get install pulseaudio libao4 paprefs libpulse-mainloop-glib0 \ pulseaudio-module-jack pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-x11 \ gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils libasound2-plugins \ paman pulseaudio-module-gconf libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 libpulse-browse0 \ pavumeter libglademm-2.4-1c2a pulseaudio-esound-compat libpulse0 \ libpulse-dev pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat \ pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-x11 \ pulseaudio-utils lib32asound2 lib32asound2-plugins ia32-libs-gtk usermod -a -G pulse,pulse-access username Then create a basic /etc/asound.

Well I’ve almost completely rebuilt my PC trying to fix the crashing bug – PSU, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, cleaning the lot! Turns out its a Fedora bug of some sort as neither Debian Sneeze or Wheezy have the problem, so I’m sticking with Wheezy now. I’ve ordered a couple of Yate Loon D12SL-12 fans as the one that came with my Corsair H50-1 is whining, I expect the bearings have gone.

I’ve been trying out Debian 6.01a (well actually Wheezy, as I’ve upgraded it to “testing” so its more like 7.0 than 6.0) in a VirtualBox VM, as I’m seriously thinking of migrating from Fedora 15 when I rebuild my desktop machine with its new motherboard, RAM and GFX card (and maybe NIC). I’ve found that the forums are about as useless as the Ubuntu forums, full of questions with no answers or really n00bish stuff.

I’ve just ordered a new motherboard (with USB3), 9500GT graphics card and 2x4Gb RAM as they’re the most obvious choices for whatever is wrong with my PC, add to that the new 620W PSU I’ve already bought. If that doesn’t fix it, then I’ll have to order a new CPU and maybe SSD, but I can’t really see them being the culprits, and they’re the expensive bits. I was thinking of a whole new PC, but that would be over £500 and wouldn’t be much better than my current one (albeit hopefully stable!