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Gentoo

Create an inexpensive hourly remote backup [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 11, 2010

in Backup, Gentoo, How-To, Installation, Linux, Storage

“There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail”
I love the above quote. It is so true and I believe everyone should evaluate how much their data (emails, documents, files) is worth to them and, based on that value, create a backup strategy that suits [...]

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Create a SSL Certificate (Linux) [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on January 10, 2010

in Gentoo, How-To, Linux, SSL

There are times that I want to set up a secure communication with the server I am working on. This might be because I want to run phpMyAdmin over SSL (I do not like unencrypted communications over the Internet), install a certificate for an eShop for a client or just for my personal use.
The first [...]

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Faster rsync and emerge in Gentoo [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on December 10, 2009

in Gentoo, How-To, Installation, Linux, http-replicator, rsync

Recently I have started setting up a cluster of 7 Gentoo boxes for a project I am working on. The problem with boxes coming right out of the setup process of a hosting company is that they do not contain the packages that you need. Therefore you need to setup your USE flags and emerge [...]

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Gentoo Stage 1 Installation [How-To]

by Nikolaos Dimopoulos on November 16, 2009

in Gentoo, How-To, Installation, Linux, Notebook

This is my effort to install Gentoo Linux on my Acer Ferrari LMi 3000.
The first thing I did was to start ssh. The live CD of Gentoo had already identified my network card which is based on the via-rhine module.
# /etc/init.d/sshd start
The key is generated and of course I needed to change the password to [...]

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