Nerdica

So, if you've been trying to visit Nerdica.com (ahhh, old posts) for the past couple hours, you'll notice that it's been down. I've currently just switched to Dreamhost, and I'm liking it so far. The main reason I switched is because my previous host, 1&1, was slow. Some of my friends never had problems with 1&1, but my site would take almost 10 seconds to appear most of the time. Sometimes even 2-3 minutes, and that was just ridiculous. Immediately after I switched, Nerdica loaded in 2-3 seconds. And after a little Wordpress tweaking, the site loads ... [Read more]

After browsing the web to find other people looking in random places for help, I've decided to add a forums feature to the site. If you ever have trouble, or would like to discuss Nerdica.com, feel free to do so on the brand new forums at http://nerdica.com/forums.

Introduction

Wanna know what really goes into just adding that simple extra line in "sources.list" for your favorite Ubuntu repositories? Well, in this article, I'll be detailing some of the work I do while maintaining the CLUG Ubuntu software repository. Listed here will be the basics of how to set up a repository to share your Ubuntu software packages, and a few notes on how to update the repository and troubleshooting a few things you may run into.

Ubuntu (or Debian) software repositories are usually simply hosted on HTTP web servers. There a several directories used for storing the software ... [Read more]

When one of my friends came up to Clemson this summer, he brought a belated birthday gift. At first, I thought it was some sort of notebook. When I realized what it was, I nearly died laughing. He said his dad found it in storage, and gave it to him. The friend knew that I would be the only one to appreciate something like this, and what would be a better gift for me two weeks late?

That's huge!

It was an eight inch "High Capacity Flexible Disk Cartridge". The disk holds a monstrous 10 ... [Read more]

I'd really like to thank Arturo Goga for providing a Spanish translation of the Building a BitTorrent Box article. You can find it at ArturoGoga.com.

Thanks again!

I've currently been tweaking Nerdica.com, and I've added a few features to make it easier to share material found here. The first would be a "Print this Article" option at the bottom of every article. Once that is clicked, a simple, printer-friendly edition is given to you. Second, would be the "Digg It!" button at the bottom of every post. If you like the material, help share it by voting for on Digg.com. And third, the site now uses FeedBurner for syndication. You can find the feeds on the right side of the homepage.

If you have any more ... [Read more]

Why?

While most of our time on the Internet is spent IM'ing, e-mail, or just browsing the Web, you may run in to situations when you need to do some powerful file transfers. If you use a laptop, you're use to getting up, suspending your laptop, and running out the door all of the time. But, sometimes you know you just need something dedicated to get work done. You'll need a solution to retrieve files and serve data when you need it. In this guide, you'll learn how to set a small headless Ubuntu server used to retrieve BitTorrent files, while ... [Read more]

So, one of my roommates came back to the apartment Tuesday with an Air Hogs Havoc Heli RC helicopter....and it only took me five seconds of watching him play to know that I must have one. We drove straight to Wal-Mart and purchased an Air Hogs Aero Ace. Its a simple rechargeable RC airplane. The remote holds 6 AA batteries, and the plane itself recharges from a cable connected to the remote. Until midnight that night, we darted between cars and apartments with the the coolest toys on the planet. The airplane flies really ... [Read more]

Sources.list, What?

For those of us using the Debian package management systems, i.e. anyone using "apt-get" or Synaptic for management, there's a better way to organize your repository sources. Most of the time while needing to add more repositories, you would usually add a line to the "sources.list" configuration file. The problem with this is that as you add more repositories to it, it soon becomes cluttered and bloated.

Thankfully, there's a different way to add new repositories without tacking them onto sources.list. If you edit add an empty file to the "sources.list.d" folder (most likely located at "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/", same folder as ... [Read more]

While global warming occurs, Jesus dies, and the president lies, there's always suppose to be one thing that holds constant. MY GODFORSAKEN ALARM CLOCK! I know some of us think, "Hey, my alarm doesn't always wake me up." But, you do know it always rings, but you do not always heed to its warning.

Today, my alarm clock has failed me. Even if Einstein can bend space and time, my alarm clock should never give one inch to keep from ringing at 6:30 AM. But, today, I know my alarm clock is dieing. Yesterday, I missed class because ... [Read more]