Stellarium is a free open source planetarium Software for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

February 8th, 2010 by cj2003

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Monday 8 February 2010 – linux.conf.au 2010 is over, but the generosity of its delegates will leave a lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust.

February 8th, 2010 by cj2003

Shore line firewall known as “Shorewall”, it is a very high level firewall and very easy to install and configure

February 7th, 2010 by cj2003

Yesterday I played with QEMU in order to run a Debian Lenny distro on a virtualized ARM arch. The Debian installation was easy thanks to this post of Chris Dew. I just wanted to point out what I did to get the virtual machine running after installing the distro.

February 6th, 2010 by cj2003

I like to tinker with computers, and I wanted a machine that I could use to experiment with a full installation of Linux. I also wanted to restrict myself to a command line interface only to internalize the use on the console.

February 6th, 2010 by cj2003

Debian Etch is soon to be unsupported by the Debian team, there for all Debian Linux Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny, I work for Netzen (an IT Support company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the past month, So I am providing this guide on how to upgrade [...]

February 6th, 2010 by cj2003

When Debian issues a point release, as it just did with the current Stable distribution Lenny going from the 5.0.3 to 5.0.4, it’s no big deal. They happen. But you don’t need to throw out your Lenny install CDs or do any kind of reinstallation.

February 5th, 2010 by cj2003

SERPRO, the Brazilian IT government agency, has been advancing in its collaboration with Debian Project. This is a first preliminary informal report about these advancements. This is not an official statement from Debian Project nor SERPRO, yet.

February 4th, 2010 by cj2003

There are many blog posts and howtos about setting up gitweb on the web. Unfortunately none of those seems to work for me. Either you can’t check out via http or it’s just not working.

February 4th, 2010 by cj2003

By using my Network Monitoring Appliance we noticed a link in MRTG always under heavy load. On this link a lot of different traffic aggregates, so we decided to analyze of what quantities of protocols and therefore applications the cumulative traffic consists.

February 4th, 2010 by cj2003

Registration is now open for DebConf10! DebConf10 will take place in New York City, USA from Sunday August 1st through Saturday Aug 7th, 2010, with arrivals at our group lodging permitted as of 3 PM on July 31 and departures required by 11 AM on August 8. The conference is preceded by DebCamp from July [...]

February 4th, 2010 by cj2003

This week I once again ran into a problem I’ve encountered before: issues caused by the default values in /etc/hosts used in several Linux distributions, including older versions of Debian and Ubuntu.

February 4th, 2010 by cj2003

After searching over the net, most people seemed to suggest that Debian (for some reason) defaults to ipv6 and apparently when its ipv6 requests don’t resolved properly it falls back to ipv4

February 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines. But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux.

February 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

During much of the time I was running Ubuntu, I told myself that I’d be running Debian instead, if only I could get everything working.

February 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

Using the official CD from Debian or Ubuntu to install a fresh new system can be tedious if you just want a minimal or customized system. An alternative way to install Debian or Ubuntu is to use cdebootstrap.

February 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

Since I’m really behind the notion of people moving to Python 3 (not only did I write a book about it, Python 3 is a better language), let me recap your options for installing Python 3 on Ubuntu systems. The same approach will work for Debian boxes.

February 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.

January 31st, 2010 by cj2003

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM’s snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again.

January 31st, 2010 by cj2003

It has been quite some time, actually years, since I started using Debian. Earlier I have used various flavors of Linux like SuSE, Red Hat, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntoo but my experience with Debian has been so far the best.

January 31st, 2010 by cj2003

I have recently been evaluating small laptops, and wound up purchasing the Thinkpad X200s. It arrived a few days ago, so here are some first impressions.

January 31st, 2010 by cj2003

Provided you’re not going to dedicate the machine to a singular task and imprison it in the closet, this might actually make a machine usable for you, all the way down to around 100Mhz.

January 29th, 2010 by cj2003

On my laptop (Macbook 4,1) I run Debian testing/experimental which was running quite smoothly since I installed it apart from the couple few weeks.

January 29th, 2010 by cj2003

Hi Everyone, I’m pleased to announce that we will be arranging a MiniDebConf starting on 19/Mar/2010 ending on 21/Mar/2010 on Panamá City[0]

January 29th, 2010 by cj2003

Here is an interesting blog post by Bradley Kuhn about Ubuntu, Debian, and (warning: my interpretation ahead) the culture of freedom.

January 28th, 2010 by cj2003

Finch is a powerful text user interface instant messaging client based on libpurple, and it comes included in the Pidgin source, the popular GNOME IM client.

January 28th, 2010 by cj2003

We have now extended that comparison to put many other operating systems in a direct performance comparison to these Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD snapshots of 6.0 Squeeze to Fedora 12, FreeBSD 7.2, FreeBSD 8.0, OpenBSD 4.6, and OpenSolaris 2009.06.

January 28th, 2010 by cj2003

As a german I’m used to strange translations in computer context.
I saw it back when I was using Microsoft products and I regulary stumble upon it on Debian systems. But whats actually kind of funny:Debian is outstanding in that regard.

January 28th, 2010 by cj2003

Dear developers, Debian policy 3.8.4.0 has been uploaded today with the following changes…

January 28th, 2010 by cj2003

This short tutorial describes how to configure JBoss Application Server (Jboss GA 5.1.0) on a debian linux (Debian GNU/Linux 5.x “Lenny” ).

January 27th, 2010 by cj2003