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Installing Ubuntu Server on my eee box
As previously noted, I got a neat Asus eee Box… but the thing comes with Windows XP Home and I want to use it as replacement for my e-mail & web server. So, what I decided to do is installing Ubuntu Server edition on it – my selection was based on existing documentation and how [...]
Some new hardware
I was thinking a lot about my “server” / “storage” concept at home; my current server is way to big, loud and everything. Finally, I decided to go for some NAS – these boxes do not cost a lot nowadays, and they are silent, do not use much power and are still fast and reliable. [...]
Facebook terms
Hey you Facebookies out there – make sure you FULLY understand the new terms that Facebook has published. Section “License” now reads: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, [...]
Fix Firefox
For a long time, I was encountering problems with Firefox on Windows. Especially on Ajax-sites, but also on various other sites, Firefox all of a sudden seemed to load and load and load forever – without even doing anything… The only possibility was then to shut down Firefox and kill the task in the Taskmanager. [...]
Mediawiki 1.3.0 broken in Gentoo
As I wanted to start with my studies revisions on M362 today, I realized that I couldn’t access my mediawiki-environment with all my notes any more! The error message was something about a missing “includes/parser.php” file (“no such file or directory”). When I googled for this, I stumbled upon a corresponding Gentoo bug – apparently, [...]
