sudo for your skin
Last week (during a LPI 101 course) one of my students gave me a bottle of sudocrem (by Boots healthcare). Yes, it contains a sudo component He gave it to me, since I explained vigorously why sudo is a...
View ArticleI have no name!
Just when you think you have seen it all, you experience something new. This happened when SSH’ing to a server which authenticates against an LDAP server: The source of the problem was a configuration...
View ArticlePHP and Zarafa webaccess make apache2 segfault on Ubuntu 9.10
If you use the Zarafa webaccess (6.40, but apparently also 6.30) on Ubuntu 9.10, apache2 will nicely segfault and you will not be able to access your webmail. Upside: the mobile server will keep...
View ArticleConvert date to days since 01-01-1970
This week I am teaching the LPI 101 course again and we covered the shadow file today (amongst other topics). I gave the students the exercise to manually edit the shadowfile and let an account expire...
View ArticleLogitech presenter R800 rocks
Every once in a while, you buy a piece of hardware which is officially not “supported” on Linux (according to the vendor). Since I have to do presentations regularly, I finally decided to buy a...
View ArticleGuruplug server plus initial review
A few months ago I received my Guruplug server plus, but I only just had time to finish the configuration. Basically it is a small Linux server, equipped with an Marvell 1.2 Ghz (ARM) processor, 512MB...
View ArticleFotoalbumsoftware – Kruidvat vs Hema
Gisteren ging ik bij een vriendin langs, bij wie ik een tijd geleden Ubuntu geïnstalleerd had. Ze vertelde me dat haar fotoalbumsoftware niet werkte onder Ubuntu. Reden genoeg om even langs te gaan om...
View ArticleOpen Amsterdam wiki
Several years ago our capital (the city of Amsterdam) funded the Open.Amsterdam project, which had the goal to investigate if it would be feasible to create and use an open front- and back-office for...
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