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Monthly Archives: May 2004

At this rate…

28-May-04

I may end up installing the entire Debian “testing” repository… along with significant portions of Xandros’ package repository as well. Jeez… I’ve been going gonzo with apt-iselect lately. Anyone else using a Xandros/testing hybrid? I’m wondering if there are any gotchas, packages that will b0rk the system when Xandros and Debian testing meet. No problems [...]

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apt-get your way to happiness

20-May-04

Spending a little quality time re-configuring my (main) desktop. Decided yesterday that I’d switch from SUSE 9 to Debian on my desktop. I’ve been enjoying using Debian on my server so much that I decided it was time to start using it on the desktop as well.
I cheated a bit, though. While I have no [...]

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Duh!

12-May-04

Banged my head against the desk for about ten minutes this morning when setting up a new server/blog on Debian testing because I had forgotten to install php4-mysql. Trying to set up a new version of WP just kept generating blank pages. Argh!

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Passwords, logins and security

12-May-04

Lately I have noticed that I am utterly overwhelmed with usernames and passwords. I have several different logins and passwords at work — one to sign on to the corporate network, another to log into the Web-based helpdesk, another for a monitoring tool that we use, yet another for our contact-management system and so on. [...]

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