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IPboard quick reply and editor does not work using mod-pagespeed

Found a bug with mod-pagespeed if you use ipboard 3.2.2.

I found that the editor did not work, showing a blank space rather than an editor. Took a while but I located the problem as being my installation of mod-pagespeed interacting with CKEditor used by ipboard. Link here explains – http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/348577-google-mod-pagespeed/page__pid__2178923

I should update . . . → Read More: IPboard quick reply and editor does not work using mod-pagespeed

The Best Open Source Developer/System Admin Text Editor

notepadplusplus

When ever I re-install windows one of the first tools I install is notepad++, it a very versatile text editor and is always open on my desktop.

It has some great features, including;

Tabbed document interface Drag-and-drop Multiple Clipboard (plugin required) Split screen editing and synchronized scrolling Spell checker (requires Aspell) (Spell . . . → Read More: The Best Open Source Developer/System Admin Text Editor

Upgrade from zenoss 2.5.2 stack installer to zenoss 3.0 on Centos

Instructions from http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/Documentation/zenoss-3.0.x-docs/zendocs-3.0.0/Zenoss_Core_Installation_04-072010-3.0-v01.pdf

Get the ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zenoss/zenpacks-3.0%20%28Latest%20Stable%29/zenpacks-3.0.0/ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg?use_mirror=nchc&ts=1279596576

Change the permissions

chown zenoss.zenoss ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg chmod 777 ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg Become the zenoss user

su zenoss

Run the install

zenpack –install ZenPacks.zenoss.PreUpgrade30-1.0-py2.4.egg

Restart zopectl

zopectl stop zopectl start

Start the zencatalog

zencatalog start

Check that is working.

tail -f $ZENHOME/log/zencatalog.log

You must wait for the catalog . . . → Read More: Upgrade from zenoss 2.5.2 stack installer to zenoss 3.0 on Centos

Upgrade OTRS 2.3.4 to OTRS 2.4.1-01 using OTRS rpm’s on Centos

OTRS is an Open source Support Ticket System, its fairly easy to setup and has the ability to receive emails and add them automatically as tickets.

Personally I like its flexibility and they have just released OTRS 2.4.1 (Aitutaki – One Foot Island, Cook Island) which improves alot of its flexibilty.

It has great . . . → Read More: Upgrade OTRS 2.3.4 to OTRS 2.4.1-01 using OTRS rpm’s on Centos

Google Releases Open Source NX Server for Remote Desktop

NoMachine developed NX technology to handle remote X window sessions and to make a remote graphical display usable over lower connection speeds.

Google released a open source NX server called Neatx, looks pretty interesting, see it at – http://code.google.com/p/neatx/

VLC Version 1.0 Released

Great news, they have released version 1.0 of VLC finally. In my opinion VLC is the best media player out there, it works! Get it here – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

How to Install Tracks 1.7 on Centos 5.2

 

Install Ruby on Rails – Use http://www.how-to-linux.com/2008/12/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-centos-52/

Create a database for Tracks

mysql -u root -p

create database tracks;

exit

Download Tracks from http://bsag.bingodisk.com/public/files/tracks-current.zip

Unzip the Tracks archive

unzip tracks-current.zip

Put tracks into /opt

mv tracks-1.7 /opt

Edit /opt/tracks-1.7/config/database.yml

vi /opt/tracks-1.7/config/database.yml

Add you mysql server details

production:

  adapter: mysql

  database: tracks

  hosts: localhost

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VLC – The Best Media Player For Linux

VLC media player is the best video player, it just about runs any type of media.  They have just released an update.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a . . . → Read More: VLC – The Best Media Player For Linux

A Good Centos System Administration Book

I have been a big fan of the unleashed guides every since I purchased Mac OS X Tiger Unleashed. I loved this book as it was both great for beginners but had some reallly good advanced sections that allowed me to learn some great stuff on mac os x.

So, naturally, when I was . . . → Read More: A Good Centos System Administration Book

Good Technology Twitters to Follow

This is a list of a few twitterers I follow who write about technology and Linux or are just plain useful.

How To Linux – http://twitter.com/howtolinux Techcrunch – http://twitter.com/TechCrunch Chris DiBona, chief of open source at Google – http://twitter.com/cdibona Brian Behlendorf, primary developer of the Apache Web Server – http://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf Stormy Peters, executive director . . . → Read More: Good Technology Twitters to Follow