Today is Pac-Man‘s 30th birthday. Happy Birthday Pac-Man. Google has a nice javascript logo in the form of a Pac-Man game today, with a level including the letters “G o o g l e”, nicest one so far I think, such things we like.
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Installing Debian Lenny on an Asus EeePC 900, part two
I have had my EeePC for a while now, and I have set it up how I want it, for the most part. When I wrote the first part, about installing Debian on an Asus EeePC 900, I wasn’t very detailed about what I had, or were going to do, to make it run as I liked. Hopefully that will be remedied now.
I have done a couple of things mentioned in the DebianEeePC wiki http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/ to reduce the disk writes to the SSD disk a bit.
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Exercising civil rights and duties
Today is the EU parliament election in Sweden. I have been exercising my civil right and duty, and voted. I think it’s important to do so, even if one isn’t very politically active otherwise, the least one can do is make an opinion and vote when there is an election.
I can report that things seemed to go well, all parties were represented in the box holding the ballots. Something slightly annoying was a person from one party standing outside of the house handing out ballots for his party. I guess that’s free for any party to do, but it only pisses me off, personally.
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Getting indexed by Google, don’t repeat this mistake
A few days ago I was going to “deploy” a site I had been working on. It is using WordPress. When I set things up and wrote pages and made it do a bit of what I wanted, I had set it to be private, in the WordPress Settings->Privacy->I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors, because I wanted to make things somewhat ready before having Google and other search engines crawling it. I wanted to have things somewhat set up and ready before showing it to search engines, though one doesn’t get much for trying things with good intentions.. sometimes.
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Installing Debian Lenny on an Asus EeePC 900, part one
On Friday I got an Asus EeePC 900 that I had ordered a few days earlier. Now after having looked at the Xandros system that is installed on them when they are sold, it’s time to install Debian on it and become happy.
I’m following the instructions on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install and will install by booting from a USB-stick with the installer on it.
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Moved to a real domain, pretty please, update your links, feeds and bookmarks
Like the title says, yesterday I bought beardy.se, and today I shifted over everything to it.
https://www.beardy.se/
..is the new URL to this site, please excuse me, and update your links, bookmarks and feeds.
http://www.gallery.beardy.se/ is the URL directly to my photo gallery, without going through WordPress.
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Conviction in The Pirate Bay trial, only a beginning
Yesterday, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, were each sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay 30 million kronor in damages, by The Stockholm District Court. The four, who have denied any wrongdoing, are expected to appeal the verdict and have previously vowed to take the case as high as the Swedish Supreme Court if necessary. (Pirate Bay guilty)
Lew has written an insightful article on Kiwipolitico titled “Social, economic and political fallout of the Pirate Bay convictions”. Go read it.
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Exchanging apache2-mpm-prefork for apache2-mpm-worker, and using php5-cgi on Debian to improve performance
Running a webserver on a Xen guest with a limited amount of memory, and serve dynamic content, makes one wanting to optimize it, or switch to another webserver, like lighttpd. I was close to doing that, but I like my current apache setup, so I tried something else instead, which seems to have worked nicely for me. I switched to apache2-mpm-worker instead of apache-mpm-prefork, which is the default on Debian.
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GNS3: Build and configure a CCNA PPP lab using GNS3, dynamips, and vpcs
Cisco’s Packet Tracer works for very basic labs, but it has so many irritating small things that are missing, that it causes more frustration than nice experiences if doing anything involving anything more than the absoulte basic configurations. It does have one strong point, and it is CPU and memory usage, compared to emulating router hardware, which this article will be mainly about.
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OSPF adventures
I was working with a PPP Cisco lab yesterday in the network lab at uni. Three routers in a serial link triangle, running OSPF. The lab instructions said to break PPP (for some reason, it was a “challenge” CCNA lab, so.. the breaking of the link and observing the behavior was already done in the previous lab, but oh well), so we did.