Category Archives: Linux

DNS Server (bind) Fast Installation and Configuration

In an attempt to put all my docs on line, today is th DNS Tutorial I wrote for myself a while ago:
This tutorial assumes you are trying to install a DNS server on your local network, under debian amd64, and that you want to use external DNS servers for forwarding external requests (ie: you are [...]

Install a Brother DCP750CW scanner/printer under Debian amd64

A while ago, I  bought a Brother DCP750CW and installed it successfully on my computer, unfortunately, my hard drive crashed … and I had to reinstall my system… Nevermind, this time, I’ll take this chance to write a little tutorial !
This tutorial describes:

Installation of the scanner connected via ethernet
Installation of the printer, using cups

Requirements:

The printer [...]

New home for pidign-latex plugin!

As you might have noticed in the past, I worked on the pidgin-latex plugin (a plugin allowing you to speak maths using latex code in pidgin), well, it has a new home now on unfreeze’s !
Pidgin-Latex Plugin Page
I added all former work on that to the new svn, and added a new http dowload server. [...]

UIRA source code back online

As I have been asked, I put back the UIRA svn online, check out the UIRA Source Code Page

Debian package mini howto

As I am trying to put all my former docs online, here is a rough debian packaging howto

Oracle 10g cheat codes

Well guys, you want to install oracle 10g on your new fresh cluster right ?, well, it’s gonna be tough, long and painful …
As I was doing so, Here is some of the weirdest things I had to do …

Installing Debian in China

It’s about a week now I am trying to install a debian netinstall from China … while I thought this would be easy, it actually was slooowww … deadly sloowww …
Couldn’t find a Chinese debian repository, only found this one :
deb http://ftp.hk.debian.org etch main contrib non-free
And man, that’s deadly slow from Shanghai, 10 on peak, [...]