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Monthly Archives: April 2005

Reinstalling laka.lv

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Today I ventured into the most annoying adventures a system administrator can face – reinstall. Fortunately this was a planned one, so I had just made all backups.Problems started even before I did – all air circulation devices were broken in the company that collocates our server, so it was very hot there. I am [...]

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Testing Gnome based blogging

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Today I tried out a few Gnome based blogging programms. Unfortunately I am still wrinting this in the web interface of the blogger.com. Why? 1. Gnome-Blog: a nice panel applet, one click blogging, looks perfect, but show an obscure error when trying to connect to blogger.com Bug reported, lets go on. 2. BloGTK: standalone programm, [...]

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Introduction to Web Services for Remote Portlets

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Introduction to Web Services for Remote Portlets Untill now Service Oriented Arhitecture, UDDI or WSDL have been only buzzwords to me. Imagine a web portal – this blog, for example. There small modules on the right showing few last blog items, favorite links and other stuff. These can be called ‘portlets’ (portal applets). If wanted [...]

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LWN: LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 21, 2005

Thursday, April 21, 2005

LWN: LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 21, 2005 Note: This page is currently only available to LWN subscribers (*hint*, *hint*) This issue of LWN has a great insight into Bdale Garbee’s thoughts about Branden and the future of Debian. I am a bit more optimistic then Bdale on this. I think that there is a [...]

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Linux.com | Interview: Branden Robinson, new Debian Project Leader

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Linux.com | Interview: Branden Robinson, new Debian Project Leader I, for one, welcome our Overfiend overlord. P.S. I acctually voted for him as my first choice in the vote, mostly because I like his ability to break rules, when they start becoming plainly stupid, and to express his opinion, regardless of the consequences or lack [...]

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Software patents

Thursday, April 21, 2005

I have been involved in the discussions about software patents in Europe since the beginning. Today I feel that I need to summarize my idea about them. The IT industry is about the author, about author controlling, selling (or sharing) his work. To insure that the author is in control, the copyright is used. Software [...]

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Do you trully know what is a system administrator?

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Funky pictures about sysadmins

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5nizza & Cosmos

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

My Azureus just gave me something else to blog about: two wonderful new musical groups that I started to like recently – 5nizza and Cosmos.Cosmos is a latvian project – five guys singing good old songs without music creating the melody by intermixing their voices. Imagine five beautiful voices singing together everyone of them having [...]

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Start with a killer

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

To start the blog not with an obligatory ‘Let’s start this’ post, but with something worth reading, I want to present the mighty nildience (null audience) the best Linux audio playing app: Amarok. Collection of your music based on the top directory – i.e. you just say ‘my music is in /home/aigarius/mp3′ and it rebrowses [...]

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