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Archive for March, 2007
Installing jbilling on Debian Etch
Mar 21st
I’ve finally got it down to a 5 minute process with the help of the OpenNMS docs….
Install a bare-bones Etch system by skipping the role and package selection screens during the installation.
Edit the apt sources.list to include the “contrib” and “non-free” packages by adding the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main Run “apt-get update” to get the package list up to date.
Run “apt-get install sun-java5-jdk” to install Sun Java
The JAVA_HOME environment variable needs to be set for any Java app to run so adding the following to /etc/profile will do the More >
The fastest thing on no legs
Mar 13th
Oscar Pistorius is on track to become the first disabled runner to qualify to run at the next able-bodied Olympics. He’s currently 2 seconds off the qualifying time, but he’s already improved his personal best by 4 seconds in the last two years, so it’s very possible.
A birth defect left him missing his shin bones, so the two options open to his parents were a lifetime in a wheelchair or amputation. He used to play water polo (where no legs isn’t a huge handicap) and rugby (???) at school, but a knee injury pushed him into athletics in 2004. The More >
Dovecot filtering
Mar 2nd
Dovecot seems nice. It’s simple to setup, it’s secure, and it’ll run on any old POS computer, but server side filtering setup is poorly documented. If I only accessed email from a single computer, or all email I receive is of equal priority then it wouldn’t be a problem. I do not need to see mailing list traffic when I’m on the road, so it should be automatically be transferred out of my inbox into a folder that I can check less frequently.
This is easy as pie to set up in any desktop email client, but I check my email on More >
England gets a new chariot driver….
Mar 2nd
There wasn’t a single chorus of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” to be heard last week in Croke Park.
I wonder why?
