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  1. libasound2-plugins is a resource hog!

    I run mpd on debian on "igor", an NSLU2 -- a very low-power \~266MHz armel machine, with no FPU and a scanty 32MiB of RAM. This serves nicely to feed my stereo with music that is controllable from anywhere on my LAN. When playing music and talking to a single mpd …

  2. KVM, Windows XP, and Stop Error Code 0x0000007B

    i dislike having to run Windows as much as the next free software developer, but like many sysadmins, i am occasionally asked to maintain some legacy systems.

    A nice way to keep these systems available (while not having to physically maintain them) is to put them in a virtual sandbox …

  3. the bleeding edge: btrfs (poor performance, alas)

    I'm playing with btrfs to get a feel for what's coming up in linux filesystems. To be daring, i've configured a test machine using only btrfs for its on-disk filesystems. I really like some of the ideas put forward in the btrfs design. (i'm aware that btrfs is considered experimental-only …

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