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Rising Dragon Hosting
31/01/2007, 14:44:36
Tagged Under: hosting, risingdragon, server, debian, bind, php, mysql, perl, python, ror.
Back in November last year I mentioned sorting out a hosting company. Well that's now coming to fruition and very soon I will be offering hosting.
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Debian Sarge
11/01/2007, 13:11:51
Tagged Under: debian, linux, woody, sarge, ubuntu, knoppix, kanotix.
Just for anyone that is interested this popped in my mail last night!
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How to configure Debian to work with a BT Voyager 220v Router
29/10/2006, 11:40:57
Tagged Under: debian, bt, router, voyager220v, linux.
So I finally got the upgrade from BT that I should have got when I ordered my 8mb Broadband back in August. I run a home network so the idea of having a router appealed to me greatly. My thoughts were I could just bang it in to my 8-port hub and away I was surfing. Sadly this wasn't true because I have used non-routeable IP's on my home network so I had a bit of sorting out to do. I didn't want to use DHCP on the network because I need to know different boxes IP addresses for SSH, Apache, Mail and of course my MP3 collection for the hardware media player ;o)
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Debian and Firefox
25/09/2006, 11:03:29
Tagged Under: debian, firefox, mozilla, copyright.
Some of you will know the word Debian some may not. It's basically one of the oldest (and most mature) distros of Linux around. It prides itself on it's social contract which means that unless it's free, a 100% free, your software will never make it in to the Debian distro. Recently a post was made to the bug list from mozilla.org informing Debian to stop using the name "Firefox" in the Debian version of Firefox, unless they use the fox on a globe logo. Of course Debian can't do that because the logo is subject to copyright therefore it's not free because you'd need to pay a license fee. So rightly so Debian does not use the logo. So much for mozilla.org being a free software foundation. It's ok to the take the software, compile it and use it on your own Distro but you HAVE to use the logo if you want to call it what it is? The only thing being left of out of the compile is the logo because it isn't copyright free. Why would the mozilla.org foundation be so stupid and picky?
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Suffering is comfort in disguise
10/04/2006, 15:18:38
Tagged Under: Linux, debian, php, mysql, apache, xp, knoppix, kanotix.
Well apart from two specific tasks I need to perform I am now no longer using Windows at home at all. I've always run a dual system with Linux but recently I made the choice to fully switch to Linux and pretty much stop using Windows at all. I still need one Win box to run my Broad-Band which is ironic because that's the exact point on my home network that I want to GET RID OF WINDOWS because it's the point of entry to the network from the Web. Of course I'm not so stupid to use XP on that box so I'm not that worried. I've always done all my web dev on my Linux box using a Linux, Apache, Mysql & PHP (LAMP) install to do it. However that's not the only thing I use any of those three installs for. Mysql is handy for pretty much all database stuff I do away from web dev, it stores a huge table of my mp3 tunes which also have a reference where to find them on the network (I have storage boxes) it also runs the tables for my bot that I use on IRC when I chat. My own web applications like my RSS reader, link stores and I store all my various logs of stuff including a personal journal. Everyone thinks web servers when you mention Mysql but it's way more flexible than that. I use Bash as my Shell and use bash scripts, Perl and PHP to perform crappy tasks that you need to do at various times on a Linux box. My Bluetooth just worked when I plugged it in to my Linux where with Windows I had to mess about getting XP to accept that the drivers were not signed. That's the difference with Linux; YOU are in charge not the OS. I really got tired with the way that M$ were dumbing things down because they felt they needed to. Yeah sure M$, the unwashed masses shouldn't be driving your developments the power users should be.
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Goodbye Windows Hello Debian!
10/03/2006, 10:17:49
Tagged Under: debian, windows, friday.
Oh yes it is and I for one am glad this week is out the way now and I can look forward to the weekend. It's been a busy and stressy week for me with one thing and another. Work is busy busy busy and zapping my time quite a lot. I'm desperate to re-write the core engine that runs this site and give it a real API that I can hook in to. The last few big re-writes have seen me just gaffer tape it all up together with basically everything I require. I need to re-evaluate that and anything core should stay that and extra stuff should really be plug-in based. I think it would make sense; not something I make a great deal of most of the time.
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