Anxiously awaiting the new install to finish on my laptop...been running about an hour now via netinstall. 639 packages.

42% complete.

I have plans after re-doing this laptop of creating synch partition for my windows network I have here at home also. Currently I do all my backups to a remote server and to a thumbdrive. I'll be using Psynch for Windows to rsync a special partition on my linux laptop once I get it up and running.

joys

I found some great video tutorial software the other day. I was needing to create a tutorial for some techs on a new software project I released. I figured I'd explore a little and use some audio/video and not just paper. Although, I still prefer paper, the video aspect was fun for me.

The software I used was:

XVidCap: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

Another package inside the repository is "istanbul".

You can download .deb packages for your system.

Word of caution; Use 1.1.4 and not 1.1.5. It complained about libc6 >= 2.4

Story:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2142

I've got a cluster of servers that use NTP to obtain the date, but the timezone still needs modification. I've read tzdata was patched in Sarge as of 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge1.

Upon running zedit -v/etc/localtime |grep 2007 I see mine is not patched.

I'm running woody on most of my servers at this time.

There is a method described here to update your tz file accordingly. I'll put this to the test on a sandbox and see how it works out.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=6987b66841b23d781a3a6f6ffad96c7e&p=2584279#post2584279

So, the time has come (actually a number of months ago) that backports has officially stopped backporting for Woody distributions. Good for them! Bad for me, as I maintain Woody based servers. =(

So, now, I need to figure out how I can create my own backports. I haven't a clue on how to even start, so if ANYONE out there is willing to help, I'm willing to learn.