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Mac book air contest

TuxFeeder — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:07:28 +0000

Mac book air contest offerto da GuadagnareRisparmiando.

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Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:23 +0000

Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch

Unbound
is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a
BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial
explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the
creation of zones for your own domains.

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Get WebVZ On Debian Etch To Administrate OpenVZ

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:17 +0000

Get WebVZ On Debian Etch To Administrate OpenVZ

First you must have OpenVZ installed and configured. You can find a tutorial to do this on HowtoForge. Because of a small problem/error in Debian Etch, it is not possible to update the Rubygems system because a Require in the gems is missing. But we can solve it with a simple edit of the file. WebVZ is one of the simplest and most powerful web management tools for OpenVZ.

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Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager)

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:11 +0000

Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager)

This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS,
Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions
with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: “phplist is an
open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install
and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is
downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top
open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat.”

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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:05 +0000

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Etch

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Etch server
for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers
(VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver
project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial
virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual
servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and
the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

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How To Configure rtGui For rTorrent

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:01 +0000

How To Configure rtGui For rTorrent

This tutorial explains how you can install a GUI (rtGUI) for rTorrent.

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Installing mod_geoip For Lighttpd On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:57 +0000

Installing mod_geoip for Lighttpd On Debian Etch

This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip
with lighttpd on a Debian Etch system. mod_geoip looks up the IP
address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block
users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your
OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.
I will show two ways to build mod_geoip - the first way is to build a
new lighttpd .deb package (including mod_geoip) which is the way I
recommend. This works only if you have installed the standard Debian
Etch lighttpd package. If you’ve compiled lighttpd yourself, then the
second way is for you: it shows how to build mod_geoip.so for your
lighttpd version.

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Protect Your Files With TrueCrypt 5.1a On Debian Etch (GNOME)

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:53 +0000

Protect Your Files With TrueCrypt 5.1a On Debian Etch (GNOME)

This document describes how to set up TrueCrypt 5.1a on Debian Etch
(GNOME). Taken from the TrueCrypt page: “TrueCrypt is a software system
for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data
storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are
automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or
saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted
volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct
password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is
encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free
space, meta data, etc).”

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How to Install and configure Dansguardian with NTLM auth and multi-group Filtering on Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:46 +0000

How To Install And Configure Dansguardian With NTLM Auth And Multi-Group Configurations On Debian Etch

This how-to describs how to install, configure Dansguardian with
NTLM auth and multi-group configurations on Debian Etch, and get around
some hurdles along the way.

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Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & Apache2)

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:42 +0000

Integrating APC (Alternative PHP Cache) Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & Apache2)

This guide explains how to integrate APC
(Alternative PHP Cache) into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system (with
Apache2). APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and
optimizing PHP intermediate code. It’s similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and XCache.

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Checking Hard Disk Sanity With Smartmontools (Debian & Ubuntu)

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:37 +0000

Checking Hard Disk Sanity With Smartmontools (Debian & Ubuntu)

This guide shows how to install and use the smartmontools package on
Debian Etch and Ubuntu 7.10. The smartmontools package provides
utilities to check hard disks for disk degradation and failure, using
the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART)
built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks.

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Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & lighttpd)

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:32 +0000

Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & lighttpd)

This guide explains how to integrate XCache into PHP5 on a Debian Etch system (with lighttpd). From the XCache project page: “XCache is a fast, stable PHP opcode cacher that has been tested and is now running on production servers under high load.” It’s similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and APC.

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MySQL Backups Using ZRM For MySQL 2.0

TuxFeeder — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:27 +0000

MySQL Backups Using ZRM For MySQL 2.0

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL
simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use
yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

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WordPress 2.5 - Plugin Compatibility

TuxFeeder — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:15:40 +0000

Yesterday, I upgraded WordPress to the latest version 2.5, which I liked much! For the upgrade I used a WordPress updater script I had written some months ago, which, by the way, still remains unreleased due to lack of time to prepare a stable release… Anyway, the script has worked quite well and the transition to the new WP version has been exceptionally smooth. I won’t go into much detail about the improvements of the new WordPress release. For such details please read the official announcement on the WordPress development blog. Despite the numerous improvements, the database schema hasn’t changed that much, so most existent plugins should work just fine. As far as the plugins that have been created and published by G-Loaded/CodeTRAX are concerned, all of them seem to work flawlessly in version 2.5. In case you run into trouble, please report the issue ASAP. Thanks.

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How to fix the WordPress database’s character-set issue

TuxFeeder — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:15:25 +0000

WordPress version 2.2 or newer allows the user to define the MySQL database character set and the collation (get familiar with these terms) inside wp-config.php. Today, after upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, I decided to also update this file and append the statement that sets the database encoding to ‘utf8‘. But, as soon as I started validating the RSS feed as part of a general test of the new WordPress version, I noticed some weird characters which were the cause of several warnings and errors in the feed validator’s output. This seemed a bit strange as I was certain that my data was being stored using the UTF-8 encoding! Having spent over two hours trying to dump the WordPress database, perform all the required conversions and re-import the fixed dump back to MySQL using all the possible combinations of character sets, I started thinking that I had made some very serious mistake while configuring MySQL itself or WordPress! Fortunately, this was not true…

Beginning with version 2.2, fresh installations of WordPress use UTF-8 as the default encoding for the database, tables and text/string fields, while older versions used latin1-encoded tables (with latin1_swedish_ci collation) by default. This means that the user data, regardless of its own encoding, was being stored in latin1 tables etc, which, eventually, has added extra trouble to all old (pre-v2.2) WordPress users, especially those who write in their national language. The inevitable changes in version 2.2 give old WP users two choices:

Either continue storing their data to latin1 MySQL tables, regardless of the actual encoding of that data, which obviously means to continue making the same mistake forever,
or follow the painful procedure outlined in the Codex in order to efficiently convert the character set of the database, tables and fields to the appropriate one, but without affecting the already encoded user data.

Of course, I chose solution No.2 so to get rid of this idiotic way of storing my data once and for all! The real problem is that the second solution is only provided in a “theoritical” form - no official database converters. Fortunately, a heroic WP user has coded a small UTF-8 database converter which can be used as a usual plugin and do the dirty job with a few clicks. Although this plugin has not been tested with the newest WordPress 2.5, after checking the part of the code that performs the actual conversion, I tried it and I think it works just fine. Afterwards, I checked the encodings of the WP tables (through a phpMyAdmin installation) and it seems that the plugin has done a good job. Also, the text is displayed correctly throughout G-Loaded.eu and its feeds, so, I recommend it…

I should state that this issue is totally irrelevant to the WordPress 2.5 release, which is probably one of the best releases I’ve seen so far. I just happened to try to resolve the database character-set issue today. Somehow, this post reminds me of the issue with the backslashes inside pre HTML tags I had written about in the past.

As always, if you notice any peculiar behaviour throughout the website, especially weird characters, feel free to contact me by email or use the forums.

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How to Setup Transparent Squid Proxy Server in Ubuntu

TuxFeeder — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:00:13 +0000

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite - we’re getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

This is a short guide on how to set up a transparent squid proxy server. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

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Create a SSH Tunnel for Firefox to surf securely

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:15:42 +0000

A ssh tunnel for Firefox to a remote computer is good security measure. Especially when connecting via an untrusted network like a wifi hotspot or other public networks. The tunnel encrypts and sends the data to your remote machine then it is sent over the web to your destination. This tutorial assumes you have an account on a remote machine you can ssh into. This is a pretty easy set up.

Now all you need to do is login your remote computer that you have access to with SSH then issue this 1 command

ssh -D 9999 -C me@ipaddress.com

The -D switch - Specifies a local “dynamic” application-level port forwarding. We are also adding the -C switch for compression.

Next we need to put the settings into Firefox.

Firefox> Edit> Preferences> Advanced tab> Network tab> Settings button.

Select Manual proxy configuration

SOCKS Host: localhost Port: 9999

SOCKS v5

No Proxy for: localhost, 127.0.0.1

Note: Sometimes localhost can cause a problem. If your settings are right and it still is not working replace localhost with 127.0.0.1.

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How to get a Canon all-in-one printer working with Ubuntu

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:36 +0000

These instructions are for Canon all-in-one printers (printer, scanner, and copier in one unit). These instructions are for the Canon PIXMA MP160, but these instructions can be adapted for other all-in-one printers in the Canon PIXMA series of all-in-one printers. This is done entirely in the terminal. All terminal commands are in boldface.

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Encrypted swap partition on Debian

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:31 +0000

Encrypting a swap partition however is slightly tricky if one wants to also support suspend-to-disk (also called hibernation).

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How to fix the Debian Lenny bug in which Epiphany always starts in "working offl

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:27 +0000

I’m just a user and wordy blogger, and I find it fascinating to learn how bugs are dealt with in software projects like Debian.

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Looking Back on Debian 1.3

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:25 +0000

Back at the tender age of 12 I picked up a magazine at the Base Exchange. This magazine contained a CD. This CD contained Debian 1.3.

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First Call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2008

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:23 +0000

Now it starts. This is the first call for votes for the Debian Project Leader election 2008.

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How To Install The Openbravo ERP On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:00:08 +0000

How To Install The Openbravo ERP On Debian Etch

This document describes how to set up Openbravo ERP (enterprise
management system) on Debian Etch. Taken from the Openbravo page:
“Openbravo is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the
SME (small to midsize firm). Developed in a web based environment, it
includes many robust functionalities which are considered part of the
extended ERP: procurement and warehouse management, project and service
management, production management, and financial management.”

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How To Set Up SSH With Public-Key Authentication On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:38 +0000

This mini-howto explains how to set up an SSH server on Debian Etch with public-key authorization (and optionally with disabled password logins).

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How To Install ImpressCMS 1.0 Final On Debian Etch

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:32 +0000

This document at HowtoForge describes how to set up ImpressCMS 1.0 Final On Debian Etch.

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Building IcedTea6 on Debian etch (stable)

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:29 +0000

As those whove had the unfortunate luck of being in our IRC channel over the past few days will know, Ive been trying to build IcedTea6 on our Debian etch server again.

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Reality crashes Google hippie code fest

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:26 +0000

You just have to love The Register: “There’s concern inside the Debian Linux project that members participating as GSOC students spent too much time on their existing Debian tasks rather than GSOC projects in past years”

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ClearSilver PHP module on Debian based systems

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:24 +0000

The PHP ClearSilver extension by my friend and colleague Homme Zwaagstra enables you to use the ClearSilver template language in conjunction with PHP.

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Knoppix 5.3.1 adds KDE 4.0 option

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:22 +0000

Klaus Knopper has announced the release of version 5.3.1 of the popular Knoppix distribution. Among the changes in this release are a distribution upgrade to Lenny, the Debian testing release.

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Debian Installed Relatively Painlessly on my Sony Laptop

TuxFeeder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:00:19 +0000

I am sure this will excite many of our normal readers, but I have finally (after four years) switched my laptop to Linux. … Perhaps if I had a better window manager for windows, I would have been alright, but anyway…

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