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Welcome to OldSite.debianHELP.org!
The "oldsite" domain of debianHELP.org is our old web site which is archived and maintained for searching purposes -- it still contains valuable data.
However, please note that all links may not work. Also note that this is a "frozen" archived site -- you will not be able to post or create any new content here.
Please feel free to search and to look around.
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Posted on Jul 13, 2006 - 02:15 AM ::: by IntnsRed ::: 1660 Reads
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Well, a combination of issues caused the switch to be flipped to the new server and new web site. Thus, this is the last post to the PostNuke software that performed well for quite a few years.
If you're reading this, that means your DNS has not propagated to point to the new site. Don't worry about that -- it'll happen soon.
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Posted on Jul 12, 2006 - 05:58 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 2043 Reads
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This HowTo is about creating a user-session-safe directory which offers security on- and offline. This is done with PAM, a module named pam_script and EncFS ("Encrypted Filesystem"). This safe directory is used to store credentials and other sensitive information during a session. When a usersession is ended, in the worst case an encrypted directory remains on the harddrive. In the best case everything is removed. This construction is only meant to store information during a session, not for documents or any other valid information.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 07:30 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1823 Reads
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BixData is a system, application, and network monitoring tool which allows you to easily monitor nearly every aspect of your servers. It can be used for general reporting, for sending notifications when problems arise, or for automatic maintenance and repairs - by executing scripts when errors or particular conditions arise.The BixData system is made of three separate parts. The BixAgent runs on any machine you want to monitor. The BixServer is used to monitor machines remotely and to keep track of many different machines. The BixDesktop is a graphical interface that is used to setup and interact with the rest of the system. http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_bixdata
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Posted on Jul 07, 2006 - 08:22 PM ::: by sas ::: 2444 Reads
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Cream is a userfriendly plugin which makes it easier to use Vim by normal users. What is unique about this plugin is that it retains all the power of Vim and makes more specialised functions of Vim easily accesible as a menu entry. Also the key shortcuts are remapped to mirror those found in windows editors. Read more about this interesting plugin.
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Posted on Jul 06, 2006 - 03:35 AM ::: by IntnsRed ::: 2268 Reads
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Sometime soon the software that runs the debianHELP web site will be changed. This will be, in effect, creating a new web site.
It's often said that change is a love/hate thing, with both good and bad points.
The site has only had one serious change in the 6 years it's been online: Years ago I migrated the site to a more forum-based focus and that's worked out pretty well.
But soon there will be some equally serious conceptual changes aimed at providing users an easier and more flexible way of solving problems, getting questions answered and in finding information. With that change will come some new features and tools. Needless to say I'm psyched about the change and what we can do with it.
The exact timing of the change is still to be determined, but it's close. If you're only an occasional visitor don't be surprised if you connect to the site one day and it looks quite different and you have to create a new account.
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Posted on Jul 05, 2006 - 11:27 AM ::: by solrac ::: 1844 Reads
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The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Java code. However, GWT is something of an all-or-nothing approach, targeted at a relatively small niche in Web application development market. This article shows you what GWT can do (free reg. req'd) and will help you decide if its the best tool to use for your web development.
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Posted on Jul 03, 2006 - 09:08 PM ::: by solrac ::: 2361 Reads
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Several browsers recently completed or announced built-in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support. This tutorial focuses on SVG for Web development (free reg. req'd), offering step-by-step instruction for Web developers and designers to learn how to use SVG and vector graphics in Web sites. The lessons are built around examples that you can view and experiment with in your favorite browser. It provides a broad enough view of the language to guide you in deploying it on the Web.
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Posted on Jul 02, 2006 - 03:41 AM ::: by IntnsRed ::: 1761 Reads
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To help organize things a bit, 2 new forums were created for folks having problems specific to non-PC hardware.
There now are forums for the Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARC architectures.
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Posted on Jun 29, 2006 - 08:33 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1932 Reads
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This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions for installing Xen 3.0 from precompiled binaries in Ubuntu Dapper Drake.Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it's more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one. http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_3.0_ubuntu_dapper_drake
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Posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 11:32 AM ::: by solrac ::: 2135 Reads
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Monitoring your file systems and ensuring they don't fill up is a vital process in the day-to-day management of your UNIX systems. This article looks at methods for keeping an eye on disk space (free reg. req'd), discovering which files, users, or applications are using up the most space, and how to make use of quotas and other solutions to find the information you need.
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