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Gettext For Static Websites
Author: coriordan • Tags: programming • Comments: 0Gettext For Static Websites Here's how I implemented a translation management system for a static website, using GNU gettext. For the impatient, I've distilled it to 11 instructions at the end.
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dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: linux, other •
Comments: 4 dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware.
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How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, ubuntu •
Comments: 6 How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to make an image). This means that you have to install some software on your image server and on your golden client in order to run SystemImager. This tutorial shows how to install a SystemImager server and a SystemImager client, both using Ubuntu 8.10, and how to create/update/restore/delete images.
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Installing The Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol Responder For Linux On Debian Lenny
Author: cpresco •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 13 Installing The Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol Responder For Linux On Debian Lenny This document describes how to install and configure the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol - Responder Source Code from Microsoft. The lld2d daemon allows linux systems to display in Vista's Network Map. This How-To should be easily adaptable to other distros.
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Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.0
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, mandriva •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.0 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Speeding Up DNS Access In Regions With Very Low Infrastructure
Author: rafit •
Tags: dns •
Comments: 0 Speeding Up DNS Access In Regions With Very Low Infrastructure Let's say you are on an expensive satellite link that can barely provide enough bandwidth for your company's Internet access and you will want to do whatever you can to get as much as possible out of this link. Moreover, occassionally you lose power from the utility company, long enough for your UPS to run out. There are a few things you could do to get a lot more from your link. In this article, we will be looking at speeding up your dns requests by keeping a cache of responses to your dns requests on your hard disk. Subsequent dns request are then served from the cache and because a copy is on disk, you don't lose it when there is a power outage or a reboot.
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phpsh, An Interactive Shell For PHP (Debian Etch)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, php •
Comments: 0 phpsh, An Interactive Shell For PHP (Debian Etch) phpsh is an interactive shell for php that features readline history, tab completion, quick access to documentation. It was developed at Facebook and ironically, is written mostly in python. This article explains how you can install/use it on a Debian Etch system.
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Capture Sound With Audacity On CentOS 5.x
Author: awan •
Tags: centos •
Comments: 1 Capture Sound With Audacity On CentOS 5.x There are times when you need to save sounds playing over the web. This tutorial shows you how you can use Audacity to capture sound on CentOS 5.x. Of course, there are many other ways to capture sound, but this just works for me. As usual, no responsibilities are taken if anything goes awry at your end.
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Using IPv6 On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, other •
Comments: 6 Using IPv6 On Debian Etch This document describes how you can configure a Debian Etch system for IPv6 so that a) it can connect to other IPv6 hosts and b) other IPv6 hosts can connect to it. IPv6 should become more important in the future as recent estimates assume that there will be no more IPv4 addresses left by 2010 or 2011. Therefore it's time time to learn IPv6.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
