Understanding Debian: The Universal Operating System

"And my final test as to whether or not Debian succeeded was: could the founder step away from the project and could the project keep going because that is the only point at which you know that the project has basically taken a life of its own." ~ Ian Murdock

generating visitors stats with visitors and uzing gzip-ed logs

tip of the day using visitors stats

zcat /var/log/apache2/firebirdsqlro_access.log.*.gz | visitors - >stats.html
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50345 lines processed in 2 seconds
0 invalid lines, 0 blacklisted referers


http://firebirdsql.ro/images/stats.html


I like the piwik stats interface and seems that is using html canvas instead of flash

http://piwik.org/

18 Years ago Linus started the Revolution

Do you Remember 18 years ago when Linux was conceived? , and look now the biggest threat to Microsoft. Finally it has grown up! http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/0825-torvalds-starts-linux I just can wisper some words to them : Ubuntu , Android , Netbooks (yah they defeated us on that one) , Nokia Maemo , PalmOS ... Ohh and i forgot Google . I still can read and run the assemmbler/C code from linux 0.0.1 and the starting point code was good in the sense that it worked and it was inspired by good concepts from Unix , Of course linux is not unix is something else alive and with good future.It's funny to read the comments about the portability and that it works only on his 386/harddrive , Look now i have an Android phone with Linux on and i'm free to modify it and do whatever is in my mind no one stops, try that with Iphone or windows CE devies . It's all about the freedom to hack (in good sense) and give back

upgrade to my borkstation 64 @home

I went from an single core athlon 64 3000+ on am2 socket and asrock motherboard with nvidia 6100 gpu (on board) and 1G ddr2 (noname)
to an dual core athlon x2 5400+ with 1M cache level2 and an beautiful asus motherboard + kingstone 1G ddr2 @800 mhz


why i love this motherboard ? it comes with linux in bios + firefox and skype (just in case you drives are dead or you need to reinstall the thing) also the layout looks nice with solid state capacitors (they seems to last longer than the electrolytic ones)

The funny story about these caps is that my old motherboard and cpu will replace an barton 2500+ soltek nforce2 motherboard with caps blowed (leaking)

I replaced the motherboard and cpu , 
the bad: linux 2.6.22 doesn't boot with this new chipset (seem to be an s-ata  issue) so the tuner winfast tv200 global xp doesn't have sound with the 2.6.27 or 2.6.28 kernels even after i put the right firmware

the good : the second cpu really helps when there are cpu intensive tasks like bittorrent or linuxdcpp (flash)
the sound is really better than the old motherboard and i love it when i play music with xmms
the bad: video performance is not on pair with the old integrated gpu ! at least there are some issues with 
compiz , for now i disabled the advanced effects and all is ok but there are times where when scrolling in arrora the screen is not rendered si fast (painting lag)
I have an paralell port printer and there is only one socket on the motherboard , you need to buy the cables and the interface , So i was lucky to have an old computer (k6-2) and i took what i needed from there.
the very good: now i have accelerated kvm ! so it will be easier to play with it than with qemu + kqemu 
I have already remove kqemu so I will have an accelerated virt-manager
The Weird: I can hear the caps singing when i scroll the web pages , seems to be an interference issue with the motherboard ?

Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week

Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to inspire and lead an enormous team of people to devote their free time to work on the operating system and bring it to maturity. We sent Richard Morris off to interview Linus, and find out more.

i have updated all my debian servers with latest linux kernel security update

and i waiting for the ubuntu linux image to appear or else i will patch myself


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587

This article is about compiling a kernel on Ubuntu systems. It describes how to build a custom kernel using the latest unmodified kernel sources from www.kernel.org (vanilla kernel) so that you are independent from the kernels supplied by your distribution.

cd /usr/src
wget --continue http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.14.tar.bz2
tar jxvf linux-2.6.23.14.tar.bz2
ln -s linux-2.6.23.14 linux
cd linux
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
make menuconfig
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers
cd ..
dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.23.14-custom_2.6.23.14-custom-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
shutdown -r now

you can install the headers too from /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.23.14-*

How To Compile A Kernel - The Ubuntu Way | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

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lighttpd 1.4.18 - speeding up a bit

# compile and upgrade lighttpd to latest stable version

wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.18
./configure --prefix=/opt/lighttpd
make; make install
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart


lighttpd 1.4.18 - speeding up a bit

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QUOTE of the day :technology used by etp for providing best hosting in romania

No, we don't have Windows. Even our workstations are running Linux.

technology used by etp for providing best hosting in romania

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We use vmware to escape spyware , to run ubuntu and then kubuntu
in parallel machines and without adware
When memory is small is time for xubuntu , also sometime
we try gobuntu.
Is like running an os in an bottle , viruses can't escape if you try windows vm
is good to reduce the number of servers needed for testing, and trying new stuff (ubuntu gutsy gibbon) or weird operating systems reactos , vista
or antique stuff : redhat, or centos
with vmware server we run many operating systems in parallel , each os distributed for one cpu
is good also for migrations from windows to linux and running both
just one good step to world domination and and fixing the bug #1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/EricKellerUbuntuPage.html
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category:OS_images