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The OPACs at HLT have been failing one by one, so some replacements are in order.  The previous OPACs ran Mozilla in kiosk mode on a hand modified Debian install sufficiently rickety that after ~4 years I didn’t really want to touch it.

Somewhat surprisingly, the task (taking some hardware and netbooting it into a teenage-vandal-proof web kiosk) didn’t appear to be a solved problem – there are still a lot of people rolling their own, I’ve done that once, I didn’t really want to do it again.

Webconverger almost fits the bill, with a couple of caveats: (more…)

The instructions for setting up ubuntu with a root filesystem over NFS in the Ubuntu wiki

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OnNFSDrive

are fine as far as they go, but they do leave out some fairly crucial steps which bit me pretty hard, so here are my notes. I don’t know if this is the “right” way to do this, but it works for me:

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So, I was tooling around looking for an easy way to get the 3Ware RAID controller utilities (3dm2) installed under debian, when I happened across http://debian-unofficial.org/. Not only does it have the 3Ware utilities in apt-getable form, it also has Opera v8 and v9, and various other good stuff (pine! woohoo!).