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Courier/postfix certificates

on in Linux

The certificates of the courier imapd-ssl and pop3d-ssl were expired. After some searching I found how to renew them:

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sudo aptitude install courier-pop...

Installing Haiku on libvirt/kvm

on in Other

I read on OSnews about the alpha release of Haiku. It’s been several years since I installed BeOS the last time so I decided to try Haiku.

I first tried it on virtualbox but I didn’t get the networking to work flawlessly so I decided to install...

Tomato firmware

on in Linux, Other

Tomato is a replacement firmware for Linksys' WRT54GL and it rocks!

I’ve installed it on my home router and on the new router of my boss. Both had other routers ( a Belkin and a US Robotics) and a lot of troubles with the stupid things. After switching...

Rmp -> Pmpd

on in Development, Python, Ruby

I’ve ditched Ruby for my mpd project and started using Python. Not that I like python that much more but the Gstreamer library for python is much more complete. I really wanted gapless playback and the Ruby Gstreamer libray just doesn’t support that...

Problems with suexec/fastcgid and virtualmin

on in Linux, PHP

Since a few version of virtualmin I had some problems with checking the server configuration.

The problem is that I have manually patched suexec and the php fcgid script is in /var/www and not /home.

I had this error for quite a while but last...

Problems with Zend Studio on 64 bit Linux

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When removing Wine, lib32nss-mdns got uninstalled and Zend Studio refused to connect with any FTP server. After reinstalling the package everything worked again!

Upgrading wordpreess

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I had some small troubles with updating this wordpress blog. It kept wanting to upgrade via ftp/sftp. But I found this great post which has a solution.