Blogcheatsheet/quick install guide to gentoo 2005.0 DVD Linux format edition
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005gentoo’s a tricky beast to get up running for someone who’s used to guided installs e.g. redhat, slackware, ubuntu, etc.
after three failed attempts (including the time when my kettle cord decided to die) i finally got it running on my system.
i’ve written a small check list of things you need to do to get […]
Using PHP to interrogate Domino LDAP
Saturday, June 4th, 2005===== Domino specifics =====
* Using Domino 6.5.3 (but LDAP specifics should work with all 6.x release)
* Need to create an internet site doc for LDAP if you’re overriding settings in the server doc
* By default the listener task enabled on admin server (the first server you build), you will […]
backing up windows via linux using rsync
Friday, May 27th, 2005 * mount -t smbfs -o user=userid,password=sekrit,rw //windoze-server/share /mnt/point
* rsync –recursive –verbose –compress –modify-window=10 /source/dir/ /mnt/point (rsync options can be abbreviated to -rvzS)
the trailing slash on the /source/dir/ is mandatory. if you don’t use it rsync will copy the files into /mnt/point/source/dir/.
the modify window switch let’s rsync relax on the time […]
Installing LaTeX in Windows
Monday, March 14th, 2005i’ve spent the weekend trying to understand the mechanics off latex to help lou out. i’ll write down what i found out here..
===== latex =====
so first we’ve got to get latex, miktex is defacto win32 version of latex.
* grab the setup program from here
* now whilst the installation instructions are a […]
How to configure WebDAV on Apache and Domino
Monday, March 14th, 2005===== A word on security =====
I will tackle the subject of security very lightly. As a rule of thumb do not implement WebDAV until your system is secure. Whilst it doesn’t introduce new problems, it will make the existing ones very apparent. This will usually be in the form of files suddenly being exposed to […]