Ocassionally, servers need to be retasked for various reasons. It has always been a challenge when the server has a distribution other than what I need. I do not want to drive to the data center to swap CDs around, so I decided to see if there was a way to remotely install the machine. I found some notes by Erik Jacobsen and used them to come up with an up-to-date how-to.
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Creating Simple Virtual Hosts With mod_mysql_vhost On Lighttpd (Debian Etch)
This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts.
Read more »Blogging Theora
"It's time for an update, especially during a period of rapid progress. Over the past six months, I've been incrementally reorganizing the entire codebase from top to bottom. This in itself didn't really produce direct tangible performance benefits. However, I was finally able to implement the Holy Grail: efficient per-token RD optimization.
Read more »Peer-to-peer searching and sharing of electronic documents -- Paul Stacey (october 2004)
"Peer-to-peer systems have existed since the first incarnation of the Internet. In recent times the Internet has taken on a more hierarchical form, power has been taken away from the individual and placed in the hands of operators of large servers. However, with the re-emergence of p2p the individual is gaining more freedom.
Read more »Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme, Third Edition Now Available
"...Sketchy LISP presents an overview of the Scheme programming language with strong emphasis on functional programming. Language elements and programming techniques are explained by means of simple examples which are used to form more complex programs..." --
Read more »The A-Z of Programming Languages: Python
Our series on the most popular programming languages continues as we chat to Van Rossum, the man behind Python.
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XULRunner 1.9.0.1
"The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.1 matches the Firefox 3.0.1 release..." --
* (now, we need to port XULRunner to Emacs; it could be used as a rendering engine inside Emacs...)
HOWTO to setup Stumpwm for a fully Lispy environment (2008-08-07)
"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run swank in the background so the fabulous facility of running slime-connect and hacking the live window manager was not available. That and having read about clbuild I wanted to get it working.
Read more »Self-signed certificates and Firefox 3 - a possible solution
Some websites need to handle data securely and assure the end-user they are a) secure and b) who they say they are. The traditional way to achieve these is via Secure Socket Layer.
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GNU Teseq 1.0.0 Release
"... Well, after roughly a month of work on it, including features for an “interactive” mode of operation, and a 30-page manual, it’s release-ready. It’s now called Teseq [...] , is an official GNU project, and has seen its official release as of 4 Aug..."
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GNU Coding Standards
The GNU Coding Standards were written by Richard Stallman and other GNU Project volunteers. Their purpose is to make the GNU system clean, consistent, and easy to install. This document can also be read as a guide to writing portable, robust and reliable programs.
Read more »GNUzilla and IceCat toward a self-signed certificate behavior
"I recently made a blog post complaining about the behavior in Firefox 3 [...] After that post got Slashdotted, I got an email from Giuseppe Scrivano saying that he was interested in implementing better certificate behavior in IceCat. The question is this: What is the optimal certificate handling behavior for a web browser? ..."
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Don't Like Mono? Try Vala.
My recent post about Mono was sincere, and Boycott Novell has the story about Debian wrong, but Gnome actually is pushing an alternative. Before I introduce you to the programming language Vala, let me give you some background on programming for Gnome as I understand it (note that I am not a programmer and haven't done anything real since the mid-80s).
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Rubygame Tutorial Rebooted
I recently rebooted my rubygame tutorial, which is an introduction to game development using the ruby programming language and the rubygame library. The new tutorial series is licensed under the creative common attribution(Though I planned to use much stronger copyleft license in the future) so feel free to assimilate the knowledge!
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Inside the Linux boot process
The process of booting a Linux® system consists of a number of stages. But whether you're booting a standard x86 desktop or a deeply embedded PowerPC® target, much of the flow is surprisingly similar. This article explores the Linux boot process from the initial bootstrap to the start of the first user-space application.
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