Boldly goes where no coder has gone before... and other ramblings :)
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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 them. I know for sure that if I ever lost the pictures and videos of my family I would be devastated since those are irreplaceable.
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I will start this post once again with the words of a wise man: There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail So the moral of the story here is backup often. If something is to happen, the impact on your operations will be [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Continuing from Part 2. I had to shut the computer down because I had a train to catch. However booting up again the computer on the train and trying to enter the chroot environment produced some errors. It might very well be the fact that I do not have an Internet connection (at least a [...]
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Continuing from Part 1. The download took quite a while, so I thought it might be a good idea to split this post in parts, so as to ensure good readability. I need to create some symlinks. Also a good place to add my repository is /usr/local hence the commands for Chromium OS and Chromium [...]
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A lot of hype has been generated on the Internet a few months back regarding Google’s announcement that they are building a new operating system. The announcement was met with skepticism but also enthusiasm/anticipation by a lot of people who are puzzled as to what direction Google is taking and where are they looking themselves [...]
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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 [...]
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Nowadays we are all about gadgets. My new printer, my new digital camera, my ability to connect my phone with my PC etc. As a consumer society we tend to buy stuff that we do not need or hardly ever use. I of course am no exception to this rule. I have tons of junk [...]
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