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How to install Etherpad on Debian

Artur — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:12:33 +0000

Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users. It’s like Google Docs, or perhaps Google Docs is like Etherpad on steroids ? Anyway, if you’re looking for a secure real-time document sharing …

Installing Riak on ec2

Artur — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:17:44 +0000

Riak is something like memcached, a data store, key value db. I’m not a programmer so don’t realy know the differance between these two and never used it for anything but I was asked to installl it on ec2 and …

ImageMagick & RMagick

Artur — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:04:22 +0000

ImageMagick lenny package sucks. Espacially if You want RMagick gem on the box. Here is how to get it working: Install required packages user@computer:$ apt-get install libfreetype6-dev gsfonts libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev Download, compile and install ImageMagick user@computer:$ cd /usr/local/src/wget …

Puppet installation on Debian Lenny

Artur — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:01:30 +0000

Here is the easiest way of getting latest puppet installed on Lenny when you start from scratch: First install puppet from gem. You need to have Ruby and RubyGems for it, more here Install puppet gem: user@computer:$ gem install puppet …

ec2 + EBS (freezing the machine)

Artur — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:48:01 +0000

I had some problems with ec2 and EBS recently when mounting EBS drive with XFS on it. Basically the machine was frozen and only way to get it back was request to detach EBS drive and reboot the ec2 machine, …

Installing memcached and libmemcache on Debian

Artur — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:27:39 +0000

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. To use it with C++ apps you also need libmemcached which is client library …

Blowfish support in Debian Etch

Artur — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:37:29 +0000

A quick how to about enabling blowfish password encryption in Debian. Why you shouldn’t use md5 passwords (default in Etch) To enable blowfish support, you have to install libpam-unix2 and libpam-passwdqc packages. user@computer:$ apt-get install libpam-unix2 libpam-passwdqc Package libpam-passwdqc is …