Monthly Archives: July 2008

Setting up a domaincontroller with Samba

I occasionally have to set up a domain controller using Samba. There are a lot of guides and howto's available, but I made a step-by-step howto just for myself, and I thought it'd be smart to make it available on the internet for me to access anywhere. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on July 10, 2008, at 12:07 | 5 comments

Playing Quake3 in Linux with Skype or Teamspeak

I wanted to play a game of Quake3 against someone, and have Skype or Teamspeak open at the same time, for obvious reasons. Somehow, it reported the sound device being in use: "device or resource busy". This doesn't make any sense, because my card can do hardware mixing, and also because all other games work fine with Skype or Teamspeak active. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on July 10, 2008, at 11:07 | 5 comments

Converting Monkey Audio to WAV in Gentoo

I had the bad luck that a CD image I acquired from the Internet consisted of a .ape file for the audio and a .cue file for the track offsets. cdrdao has no problem with .cue files but .ape is the file extension for Monkey Audio files. Monkey Audio is the awkwardly licensed monkey brother of Flac. (They're both lossless audio encoding formats.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 years ago, on July 09, 2008, at 20:07 | 1 comment

Mounting partititions residing inside a disk image

When you've read a disk with dd or ddrescue into an image file, one of the things you want to do is mount the partitions inside it. But, how does one do that? The answer is using losetup, with a bit of knowledge of partition offsets. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 years ago, on July 09, 2008, at 13:07 | 1 comment