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Jopin

Posted: 5th March 2010 by Gert in Linux

With the installing of the new server, I am writing the necessary blob of php to replace the home ip upload script with a blob of server side php + mysql. Its called Jopin, it has 70% of its intended 1.0 functionality and its Great!

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

Gnu Screen ; an invaluable tool!

Posted: 10th November 2009 by Gert in Linux, Open Future

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a five part series [...]

Karmic Koala – Totem Smurf mode

Posted: 5th October 2009 by Gert in Linux, Open Future, Planet

After recently installing the Koala, moving my data over to the new install & installing the packages from the list I exported earlier, I noticed that totem had apparently switched to smurf mode. Smurf mode asin everything utterly blue. (Even Hellboy – bit hard not to notice, everyone & thing blue)
After some annoying moments, I [...]

The Koala Experience..

Posted: 1st October 2009 by Gert in Linux

Testing the Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Alfa 6 on my Dell Latitude D630.
Everything works out of the box. Hooray! Next; installing all the software via the Synaptic “save/read markings” option & an rsync of my /home dir with the previous version. – Which all worked out fine. Linux is an amazing system.
Ill vent [...]

Another project for when I find the time..

Posted: 31st August 2009 by Gert in Linux

Step One. The hardware.

Buy a plug pc
Get a USB IR blaster
Put it all together with the LIRC

Step Two. The Software.

Write an Android software app that ll connect to the plug over the Wifi & that ll send the right commands to be blasted. Oh & also make it flexible & possible to easilly [...]

overflow tmpfs on /tmp

Posted: 31st August 2009 by Gert in Linux

I had the pleasure of running into the overflow tmp system today This lovely simple backup thing is misconfigured, I am aware of this, and this dumps all my junk on the fucking root. Well, not the root, but the /var/backup/ , whatever, its the root partition And since that doesnt [...]

Ubuntu

Posted: 13th July 2009 by Gert in Linux

hihi – Ubuntu!
2 new Ubuntu peoples to add to the list
Spent the evening explaining the works to them & they re convinced
Hooray!
& now to hope stuff turns out allright;)

Something thats been happening a lot these last days, is my samba server crashing while I’m copying stuff from it using my laptop with Ubuntu & Gnome. (My server is crashing, dont really know Why yet, but i’ll get to that some time next .. ) So the copy goes on endlessly :/
We [...]

A thing about the Redhat KVM Cluster Suite

Posted: 22nd June 2009 by Gert in Linux, Planet

Last week we attended the Zarafa SummerCamp 2009 in Krefeld, Germany. An interesting 3 days with all sorts of seminars on Zarafa related topics. While there is a lot to be told about the Zarafa multiserver solution and the fun Z-Push possibilities; there was one topic in special that shocked the people attending. The first [...]