Recently, I’ve been playing a bit of Second Life (Wikipedia has a good page on it here). This is not so much a MMORPG as a virtual world, a metaverse if you will. There is no set of goals or levels in second life like a game. Second Life allows you to interact with other […]

Introduction:
This guide will walk you through the creation of an encrypted filesystem using LUKS. LUKS is the Linux Unified Key Setup and is a standard format for linux hard disk encryption. It has a lot of interesting features such as using a key on a removable disk, keeping multiple keys, and more. This is the […]

Dear Benjamin Seidenberg!

Your account ‘benjamin’ has just been created in the central LDAP
database of the Debian project. Please note that it needs a bit of time
until this information is synced with all developer-accessible machines.
You should be able to login or upload packages after about 30-60 minutes.
The password for this account can be found appended […]

One thing that has always appealed to me about Debian is the strength of the community behind it. A somewhat recent incident has reminded me of how strong this community really is. When several members of the Debian community became concerned about a situation in the life of another member, they immediately tried to contact […]

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my application to become a Debian Developer. Here is an approximate break down of my time in the NM Queue:
Waiting for advocate: 2.5 weeks (This should have been shorter, I had my advocate lined up, but then there was a question about me signing the key of the […]

So I’m planning a new box for college, and have come up with a tentative parts list. I am soliciting any advice and comments that people would be willing to offer.
CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2000MHz HT 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103562
$169 (This was $289 2 days […]

(Sorry Robert, this is a meta-blog-post. Perhaps I should create a catagory for them?)
Since being syndicated on Planet Debian, the amount of comment spam I’ve gotten has risen sharply. No spam has made it onto th site itself, since I moderate the first comment someone makes, but the emails have gotten annoying. Therefore, I […]

So, thanks to Wouter Verhelst, I am now syndicated on Planet Debian, a site that aggregates the blogs of various people involved in Debian.
To those who don’t know me yet, I am an 18 year old high school student (for a couple more weeks anyway) in the United States. I go by ‘astronut’ on […]

Ok, so once again, I’ve neglected my blog. I’m pretty sure I know why, it’s based on my online moods. Anyway, have yet another batch update:
- I finished all my NM tests. Now I just have to wait on HE, Ganneff and elmo (Front Desk, DAM, and Keyring Maintainer) before becoming a DD. Sweet.
- I’m […]

So I finally upgraded wordpress from 1.5.x to 2.0.x. The changes are mostly on the backend and admin interface, so you faithful readers shouldn’t see much difference, but I will. Let me know if you see any problems.