I’ve been trying out some cloning solutions as Clonezilla failed to restore a working system when I cloned my Fedora 14 install. I tried Acronis True Image Home 2011 PlusPack, and that was a bit odd – I can get past grub, but that’s about it – I think its not liking the UUID’s or something with the encrypted partitions. Possibly this is because it wanted to auto-grow the /boot partition from 500Mb to 6Gb!

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.