The newest version of OpenSuSE got released today. OpenSuSE 11.1 brings more than 230 new features the press release says. As I keep my systems up to date thanks to smart and all the repositories only a number of these new feature are missing on my OpenSuSE 11.0 installations. The most important reason I quickly [...]
The bad thing with most new computers is that they come with Windows ™ preinstalled. The good thing is those Windows ™ installations don’t bring much (useful) software along. Users have to actively use which software they want to use.The bad thing with most new computers is that they come with Windows ™ preinstalled. The [...]
I heard about the successful usage of ejabberd from weblin‘s CTO Heiner yesterday at lunch during BarCamp Hamburg 08. I was thinking of deploying jabber services for podcast.de for a while now but couldn’t decide which server to take. I checked the ejabberd website. The software looks promising. So I give it a try. smart [...]
I had to write a shell program. And I was looking for a how-to / manual covering my favorites shell command set. I found a nice e-book on Wikibooks: Linux-Kompendium: Shellprogrammierung which helped me a lot. Hence the link for other people.I had to write a shell program. And I was looking for a how-to [...]
A while back I wrote an article Switching from Apache HTTP Server to Lighttpd – Installing Lighttpd. Back then I migrated static stuff to lighttpd but left the dynamic stuff (PHP) with Apache. I was never really satisfied with the speed of our system under load. I tried and tried. I optimized a lot of [...]
A couple of days ago a brand new version of Miro the open video podcatcher was released. I was eager to try it out. It is supposed to be faster than the previous release. I had to wait a few days for a rpm for my linux distribution to be released. Thanks to the great [...]
You can easily set a custom user-agent string for a specific site through a predefined list of user-agent strings. If you want to define your own custom user-agent string I did not find a gui for that. The solution I found is the following. Launch your favorite text editor and open the file ~/.kde/config/kio_httprc Just [...]
Surfing the web today and already yesterday in some cases one website wouldn´t load: www.google.com. This makes it difficult to login to Google AdWords and impossible to login to AdSense. For searching I can use the localized version www.google.de. That works just fine. But I use my browser´s (Mozilla Firefox) integrated search box quiet frequently. [...]
For our main web project we struggle to serve the pages as fast as we want and as people aspect. Server load is too high most of the time. We did many different kinds of optimization. Starting with rewriting part of the code, squeezing the database, compiling the software we need instead of installing precompiled [...]
I upgraded my OpenOffice installation to version 2.3.0.1 for a 64-bit intel cpu. After upgrading the packages the software would reliably hang on saving a document and generating a pdf. I downgraded back to the monolithic i586 version. Everything works just fine and as expected. I upgraded my OpenOffice installation to version 2.3.0.1 for a [...]