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Servers4Linux is live!
Saturday 09 May 2009 at 09:17 am My new web site, www.Servers4Linux.com, is up and running. This site is about how to use "industrial strength" server hardware for running Linux. Since I'm on a budget, I like the cheap stuff you can find used. There's a lot of clueless people selling really expensive server hardware on Ebay for a song. Usually it's a bit "different" perhaps, say running some exotic CPU architecture or something. That's good. That means you can get it cheap because "lusers" can't run Windows on it. Better for you.Hey! A new wiki!
Tuesday 05 May 2009 at 7:26 pm I'm fiddling with a install of MediaWiki on this server. After I loaded it, I've been tweaking it. I'm using the Help section to document the tweaks. So far, I've figured out how to add a logo, require users to be logged in in order to make edits, etc. Check back to see what I've tweaked next.Installing MediaWiki on a default load of Fedora 10
Sunday 03 May 2009 at 1:39 pm Fedora 10 comes with a mediawiki rpm package. It sort of works. Here's my (messy) notes on how to load MediaWiki on Fedora using the supplied mediawiki package.Installing MediaWiki on a he.net server
Sunday 03 May 2009 at 1:37 pm Hurricane Electric (http://he.net) is my ISP and virtual host provider. I like them. I recently installed MediaWiki on my he.net server. It actually was pretty easy, as he.net had pre-installed and pre-configured all the pre-requisites. Here's my notes on getting it working.Secure Shell Load Balancing (On The Cheap!)
Saturday 21 March 2009 at 12:32 pmAt work, I (Greg Porter) have a lot of students (hundreds) that need to use ssh to log into a couple of unix hosts. Most of the students use one particular host, vogon.csc.calpoly.edu. When vogon gets busy, or fork bombed, or hangs, all those users are SOL. It'd be nice if we had multiple ssh hosts behind some sort of ssh load balancer. Of course, we can't afford a real load balancer.
We figured it out with iptables, and so far it seems to work.
(more)Using the Citrix web client with Fedora
Friday 27 February 2009 at 12:47 pmCuesta College, one of the places I (Greg Porter) teach, only allows you to access your cuesta.edu email 2 ways. You can use their web based Outlook Web Access, which looks really lame and clunky if you're not using Internet Explorer. (I use Firefox on Fedora.) The other way you can access your mail is by using Cuesta's Citrix Presentation Server which uses the Citrix ICA Client plugin for your browser to get access to remote apps at Cuesta like Outlook or Office. (No other access methods are allowed, no POP, no IMAP, my mail is "stuck" on campus. I could launch into a rant about how silly that is, but I'll do that another day.)
There's a couple-three flaming hoops you have to jump through to get Firefox to use the ICA client...
(more)Vista bad. Windows 7 good.
Saturday 21 February 2009 at 11:15 pm
I (Greg Porter) recently dumped XP as my home machine operating system. The main reason I had XP was to play games, and now that new games require DirectX 10, which requires Vista, I said goodbye.
So I went with Fedora 10.
