The Canterbury Project
What happen when big Linux distribution combine each of their strength into one distribution? The answer: The Canterbury Project.
Canterbury is the future!
Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.
Then again, this sort of thing usually is too good to be true 
Related links: The Canterbury Tales
Where’s the Youtube .flv files?
Turns out that on Debian Squeeze, whenever you play Youtube videos on any browser, they didn’t get cached on /tmp directory. They’re cached on each browser cache directory (.cache/google-chrome/ or .mozilla/path/to/cache/, for example). And whenever the videos fully cached, puff, it’s gone, though it’s still streaming on the browser. It’s rather annoying, since the usual method I use to download Youtube videos is to play them on browser till finished, then copy the flv files cached on /tmp.
Sigh, better searching for _good_ Youtube downloader
How to use Debian iso for repository
A neat (old) trick I learn while trying to make wifi work on Axioo Pico running a fresh install Debian Squeeze.
Few days ago, I was trying to install Debian Squeeze to my netbook. Since the netbook didn’t have CD drive, I use Unetbootin to create Debian installer from 1st Debian CD iso. To cut long story short, the installation went succesful, I got GNOME running, yadda yadda yadda. The only problem left is how I add more applications.
At that time, I didn’t have wired Internet connection. There’s a Huawei USB modem, but my Debian installation is yet to have wvdial. But I do have 2nd & 3rd CD ISO. I could use it for local repository, but again, since my netbook didn’t have CD drive, I need to do some improvisations.
- make some temporary folder
# mkdir /tmp/mount1
# mkdir /tmp/mount2 - mount the iso files
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso/debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-1.iso /tmp/mount1/
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso/debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-2.iso /tmp/mount2 - edit the
/etc/apt/sources.listfile and add this line
deb file:/tmp/mount1/ squeeze main contrib
deb file:/tmp/mount2/ squeeze main contrib - update the repository
# apt-get update
All done. Now I can install applications from local repository. And the first application I installed? Synaptic, of course
Repo hopping
Kadang-kadang saya kesulitan mengupdate Ombilin karena tidak konek ke repo. Pertama kali install Ombilin pakai reponya Kambing, lalu didobel repo Mugos. Lumayan lama pakai keduanya. Cuma baru-baru ini saya nggak bisa konek keduanya via wifi gratisan, akhirnya utak-atik /etc/apt/sources.list lagi. Waktu itu entah kenapa cuma repo Buaya yang bisa konek. Dan sampai sekarang masih mengupdate dari repo itu. Malas soalnya kalau mesti ganti repo kemudian apt-get update lagi. Pahamlah, sudah musafir benwit, fakir pula
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin main restricted extras extras-restricted
deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-updates main restricted extras extras-restricted
#deb http://buaya.klas.or.id/blankon ombilin-security main restricted
Wrong priorities there, huh? Mestinya komen repo ombilin-updates, bukannya ombilin-security 
Pile of photos without good backup plan
Lately I’ve been carrying a camera everywhere. Not an expensive DSLR one, mind you, just a cheap point-and-shoot one. I used it on everything. Literally everything. People, signs, plants, water, lights, leaves, cats, building. I’m not pretending to be an “artistic” photographer. I just feel like grabbing pictures. Like those “alay”, taking pictures every few minutes. The differences is that I’m not taking pictures of myself, with one arm holding the camera 45 degrees slightly left above my head .
The pictures are so-so; some good, some flat, some really bad. And it filled up the harddisk rather quickly. As I’m writing this post, quarter portion of my netbook harddrives is occupied by those pictures. It’s rather surprising since the filesizes are averagely small, but I guess I underestimated the quantities. I should really resizing them all, to save spaces and all that, but I got more important concern: Backup.
You see, I consider those pictures as important memories, snapshot of my life. Okay, that’s exaggarating, but losing them surely will irritating, at least. I’ve lost 4GB of photos by a formatting “accident”. Now that’s not merely irritating, it worth cursing. And I want to prevent it happen again.
The plan? Not much. I’ve been uploading some pictures to photosharing sites and my blog, but there’s a limit on that. And I’m just uploading a few good ones. The others still intact on the netbook, and I can only pray that no bad stuff happened on them. At least not until I get a good backup media. A good external harddisk will do, I think.
How about old school way: printing them all? While printing is cheap (viva custom infus printer!), there’s no way I’ll spend a big load of money on photo papers. And since there’s no point of printing them on plain paper, I think I’ll skip this alternative.
