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New Lucid Lynx theme (and why it sucks)

By randall

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 too and [...]

Karmic Koala bugs

By randall

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 and some apps go as usual [...]

Karmic Koala, first impression

By randall

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 desktop feels [...]

Karmic Koala installation

By randall

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 that we [...]

the road to Lucid Lynx

By randall

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) and [...]

roundcube installeren

By randall

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, en in mijn geval kies [...]

online debian manpages

By randall

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 the [...]

Replacing a failing disk

By randall

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)

The following warning/error [...]

hylafax lenny vserver

By randall

HylaFAX

http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man5/hylafax-server.5.html

Hylafax runs very well in a Vserver, all that needs to be done extra compared to a “normal” install is to copy the /dev/ttyS0 so Hylafx can reach it from within the Vserver.

It is absolutely not needed to have Hylafax run in a Vserver but since this is a “low profile” setup for about a [...]

Getting High with Lenny

By randall

Getting High with Lenny

The aim here is to set up some high available services on Debian Lenny (at this moment still due to be released)
Most of the documentation available for such a setup i found on the net are based on Xen but i prefer to use Vserver for the “virtualisation” because of its configurability, [...]

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