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Convert Red Hat to Debian Squeeze

November 9, 2011
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=====Convert Red Hat to Debian Squeeze Remotely on a Live system===== Last week i was confronted with a compromised custom Asterisk (Elastix) based PBX that suffered security issues, both in the configuration, such as easy passwords very lenient permissions, as well as the normal CentOS provided security updates since some software/drivers outside of the...

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mobiel internet modem 904 KPN

March 13, 2010
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KPN levert de “Mobiel Internet Modem 904″ , zoals ze zelf deze “Dongel”  noemen. Het feit dat ze een “dongle”  “dongel” noemen en het KPN type nummer  overeenkomt met een release van Ubuntu voorspelde al niet veel goeds om te traceren wat voor type apparaat dit eigenlijk is en hoe deze aan de praat...

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New Lucid Lynx theme (and why it sucks)

March 10, 2010
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WOW!!!! After years of promises there finally has been a mayor overhaul of the Ubuntu theme after the “Brown Human Theme” that we have been accustomed to for so long, I know the usual complaints about the old Faeces Theme but i actually kind of liked it, or at least its what I’m used...

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Karmic Koala bugs

October 4, 2009
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strange colors in firefox when displaying images the below post fixed it, just set the default 2 to 0 http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=403836&forumId=1 EDIT:::::: OK, have been working on the BETA now for almost a full workday, and there is much to like. Gnome is still Gnome since i used it about 5 years, some apps come...

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Karmic Koala, first impression

October 4, 2009
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MMM OK, the boot up is fast with the new upstart and the new log in screen looks promising even though its still a little rough around the etches. I have not used Gnome in a while or Karmic with another desktop so i don’t know who to blame yet,but i must say my...

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Karmic Koala installation

October 4, 2009
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Karmic Koala installation

As mentioned in the the post the road to Lucid Lynx i will be trying out Karmic Koala Gnome version as a test to see if i can transition from a customised Xubuntu version that i have been using over the years. The Beta version of Karmic Koala shows the same cd boot screen...

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the road to Lucid Lynx

October 4, 2009
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Have been using Xubuntu for the last several years as my desktop of choice since the days of the first LTS Dapper Drake, the XFCE desktop proved to me a more sane and stable desktop environment then the Ubuntu Gnome version, especially some exciting new features (bugs and quirks) concerning the file manager (Nautilus)...

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roundcube installeren

May 28, 2009
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roundcube installeren

ik ga er hier van uit dat er al een werkende versie van apache en mysql aanwezig is Roundcube downloaden De laatste versie van Roundcube is te vinden op http://roundcube.net/downloads Op het moment van schrijven is dat versie “roundcubemail-0.2.2.tar.gz” Voor we Roundcube downloaden gaan we eerst naar een locatie waar we m willen hebben,...

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online debian manpages

March 14, 2009
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Recently i have been practicing my “website building skills” a little, nothing special but making a nice website was simply a thing i never did so i just want to try out a few things to see what i can do. One of the things that came up on my list was inspired by...

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Replacing a failing disk

March 8, 2009
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S.M.A.R.T. giving warnings http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man8/smartctl.8.html lately I've been receiving S.M.A.R.T. warnings by mail about one of the disks in a RAID10 array, the mails came in pairs like below. SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: host This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: host DNS domain: cipar.net NIS domain: (none)...

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