Archive for November, 2008
Posted on November 12, 2008. Filed under: blogging, development, life, marketing, operating systems, sys admin | Tags: DocBook, 500 MBs of screenshots, bliki, net-bound box, wiki-bound documenting works out for me, wiki, wiki-bound documentation, rsync, Word, toolchain, power supply |
My main box is broken. Something with the power supply or/and the I/O controllers. Usually, the OS hangs in the middle of booting, mostly when it comes to some I/O thingy. Most recently, that got added up by middle-of-the-session instant-shut-downs. Like if someone pulled the power plug. Until now, the file system survived that. However, [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008. Filed under: Apache, Debian, HowTo, PHP, digital privacy, sys admin, user accounts management | Tags: Apache, authentication, authorization pop-up, camelcase, DocBook, htpasswd, localization, LocalSettings.php, Mediawiki, MoinMoinWiki, primer, Special:Userlogin, SSH, TWiki, web security, WikiSysop, XML |
I’m still at setting up my virtual host. Actually, I was after something completely different — get some source DocBook XML rendered to anything presentable. I just got a clue on how to render it to HTML, so I wanted to note that down. As I am used to use a wiki as a slip [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2008. Filed under: Debian, Desktop, freedom, series of posts, sys admin, work | Tags: slicehost, SSH, virtual server, Windows-only work environment, X client, X server |
Every now an then I happen to get locked in to a Windows-only work environment. That is, having no tools at hand. To get over that, I decided I want a Debian box somewhere in the net, so I can access it from virtually anywhere. (As admins sometimes block outgoing traffic but can’t block http/https [...]
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