August 29th, 2010 by Belse
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I’ve grown tired of (K)ubuntu. Ever since Hardy, 8.04 LTS, I’ve been longing for another release that’s stable. I’ve told myself that releases in between of these LTS-versions are more or less for testing new technologies. So I’ve forgiven Canonical for breaking things every now and then. The latest attempt was to upgrade to Lucid, 10.04 LTS, on my xbmc-powered HTPC. What a failure. Suspend-to-ram suddenly stopped working, and I did not managed to get it working again after two days. The new Plymouth splash thingy was plain ugly and I think that some incompatibility with plymouth and my nvidia-drivers caused the system to freeze on boot a lot. After a couple of retries, the system would complete the boot sequence. And a minor note: the long awaited default theme update for Ubuntu… what a joke? Pink?! Ubuntu just got uglier than ever! I reformated my HTPC and installed Windows 7 instead.
About Kubuntu. I’ve longed for a stable KDE 4.x release. Now that KDE 4.5 is out, I installed the latest Kubuntu to see if it’s usable. Well, It’s kind of usable in virtualbox. But still Firefox is miles from being integrated to KDE environment (just file associations would make tons of difference!). So I was curious on how other KDE-distros work with 4.x. Before I tested Kubuntu the first time (when it was fresh, cool and nice), I really liked SUSE. So I installed openSUSE 11.3 and… I’m not going back 
The default apps, are exactly the same that I would have chosen, and it so polished! The only thing I had to do was to upgrade KDE (from 4.4 to 4.5) and I’m all done! Now I just have to re-familiar myself with Yast and openSUSEs file system organization…
April 21st, 2010 by Belse
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The Ventrilo stats script didn’t work between 2010-04-15 and 2010-04-21 because the ventrilo_status program was unable to contact ventrilo localy. A simple restart of ventrilo was all that was needed.
March 2nd, 2010 by Belse
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My old work horse from 2002 has died. I think it was the power supply or the motherboard. Well, I took the opportunity to move to the cheapest VPS at ITSTADEN (merged with Serverconnect AB). With only 128 MB of RAM, I had too tweak the installation quite a bit. Nginx + PHP-FPM is now serving my web pages instead of Apache + mod_php. And of course, Ventrilo is up and running with a greatly reduced response time.
For swedish customers, I can recommend ITSTADEN. I took a chance with almost no reviews found via google, and a website that doesn’t contain much documentation. However I have got my tickets solved quickly and everything worked out smoothly. And it’s quite cheap
March 2nd, 2010 by Belse
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I’ve created a new page for my latest app: Gmail Informer. It’s a pretty small but very useful gmail inbox notifier. Yes! The world actually needs another one! 
The current version, 0.4.1 has some known bugs and I will upload a new version ASAP.
October 18th, 2009 by Belse
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If anyone knows of a good project hosting solution, feel free to comment on this post. I want something similar to Redmine (code browsing + tickets), but I don’t like passengers (Ruby on Rails) huge memory allocation. Maybe a solution in PHP 5?
April 7th, 2009 by Belse
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This post is mostly a reminder for myself. I modded the current theme (iNove by mg12) so that the links on the link page are shown in categories.
In links.php I replaced:
<div class="boxcaption"><h3>Blogroll</h3></div>
<div class="box linkcat">
<ul><?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0&orderby=rand'); ?></ul>
<div class="fixed"></div>
</div>with:
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('category_before=&title_before=<div class="boxcaption"><h3>&title_after=</h3></div><div class="box linkcat">&category_after=<div class="fixed"></div></div>'); ?>Ugly, but it works great
April 6th, 2009 by Belse
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While searching for how I could secure my web server environment I came across this wonderful post. I was already used suPHP. Replacing it with mpm-itk was very simple since mpm-itk were already in the Intrepid repositories.
April 4th, 2009 by Belse
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Very soon, Jaunty is going to be released. In mean time, I decided to upgrade my server from Hardy to Intrepid. I don’t know actually what I was thinking. Why should I upgrade something that’s still supported and runs without problems? On intrepids plus side, intrepid had packages for libcap2. I had only installed these from a PPA-repository previously. On the down-side, I had problems running the new Xorg on the same hardware when Intrepid was brand new. I just couldn’t get tv-out to work regardless of how hard I tried with my Geforce 6200.
Well, how did it go then?
Oh… It was the smoothest release-upgrade ever! Wow OK, xorg struggled. But it wasn’t harder than: resetting the xorg.conf, starting xorg, let jockey install the correct driver, restart and set up twinview (clone) using nvidia-settings.
Now, I just wait for proftpd v1.3.2 to hit the repositories. In the mean time, I use proftpd debian packages.
December 4th, 2008 by Belse
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Just perfect timing! I was going to learn using the symfony php-framework and version 1.2 has just gone stable. In addition there is now an advent calendar. Every day from 1st December to Christmas there will be hourly long tutorials on how to use symfony to create a modern web application from scratch.
You can find it here.
November 26th, 2008 by Belse
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I often find myself wanting to both change the owner and file permissions of my web served files. When apache creates new files, the owner becomes www-data, and I can’t manipulate those files directly without changing the ownership to me. Also, apache can’t write to files if they aren’t writable by group. Well. The solution is very simple; I should fix my suPHP installtion. It worked some time ago but no longer. Anyway. The following three commands are a lifesaver.
sudo chown xxx:yyy -R .
find -type f -exec chmod 664 \{\} \;
find -type d -exec chmod 775 \{\} \;The first one change ownership of files to user xxx group yyy recursively. The second one change permissions of all regular files (not directories) to whatever you want to (664 here). The third one change permissions of all directories. I want my directories to be executable, while I usually don’t want my files to be that. Find handles that for me.
