A couple of days ago I installed OpenSuSE 12.1 on my laptop after running OpenSuSE 11.4 for quite a while. Upgradeing was no big deal. OpenSuSE has a nice tutorial on that. The new version finally supports the integrated mobile modem out of the box which is very nice. The only annoyance I got is [...]
For my podcast project I got five new root servers which are all connected internally through a switch. Two of the servers are connected directly over a crossover cable. Those two servers have 3 NICs, the other 2 servers have 2 NICs. I share the website’s HTML, images and other resources through the NFS server [...]
Nowadays OpenSUSE comes with almost all packages I need to run a fast and reliable webserver. As I have written before I use nginx and php-fpm for our podcast service. You can get up-to-date packages of nginx through OpenSuSE’s build service. I have not yet found a RPM package of php-fpm though. Therefore I compile [...]
For a mount command I needed to find out what user id my user account had. There are several ways to find out. As root you could look into the passwd file (most likely /etc/passwd) or on OpenSuSE use the Yast user module. But I was looking for a way to find out my user [...]
I had to set up a server. The hoster offers openSUSE 11.0 at the moment but no openSUSE 11.1 yet. As I like to go with the latest and greatest I decided to upgrade the system to openSUSE 11.1 after using the hoster’s installation image for openSUSE 11.0. I searched on the web how a [...]
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 [...]