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FileOpen Plugin for Acrobat on Linux

November 13th, 2006 Comments off

If you will have to ever use it ( I needed it for IDG.PL magazine called Net World )  the download site has some crappy hosting as it  eats  .gz when redirecting to archive

No worries adding .gz ad the end of URL and it works.

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Fancy Linux desktop aka AIGLX

November 12th, 2006 Comments off

When I was performing emerge  -ud world recently on my vaptop, I have noticed that the new xorg server, which was to be installed has a new USE flag, the aiglx … quick ^C and edit on /etc/make.conf has switched that feature on.

After updating system, I’ve added compiz to my installed software collection, and started to read on how can I get my eye candy on the screen. Google for gentoo aiglx and you will get Howto which I have used to set everything up … there was one glitch which was preventing me from seeing anything except white colour and what is worst I couldn’t find any solution for that. This white colour, which appeared instead of my windows was simply due to 3D objects lacking textures.

Now when you have that kind of appearance on your desktop , look no further than MESA … quick emerge mesa fixes the issue. Enjoy this nice eye candy  working … except that after that I have broken my cube configuration and it doesn’t switch my desktops … plane is a bit too plane and I will have to reset my cubes configuration, but how? . eh

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SVN auto publishing to Windows servers

November 10th, 2006 Comments off

I need to setup a system which uses SVN for storing ‘website’ revisions and automatically updates live/review/development systems whenever there is commit. Adding a little bit of complication each server is updated from different branch.

If website serving boxes would be any kind of UNIX, this post would not exist… way too easy.

Web servers are Windows boxes  and they are located in different networks, so no SAMBA.

My ideas so far :

Naturally using hooks in repository…

  1. Using rsync
    This idea was to : whenever content of a branch is changed, branch is exported locally on SVN server, rsync it to Web server.
  2. Using FTP
    similar to rsync , instead of using rsync for file transport we would use FTP
  3. Using SVN+HTTP
    Here it gets lil bit more complicated ,  after branch changed, svn server sends HTTP request to web server, which fires svn up .

Each of an ideas has its minuses, 1 uses precious svn server disk space for second copy, requires web servers to run rsync servers. 2 uses disk space on svn and abuses a lot of bandwidth every time when something changes. 3 requires web servers to have svn clients installed and custom CGI/ASP/Whatever which will trigger svn updates on local copies.

There is one more, using scripting language to write FTP/SVN integration : something like ftp client which instead of uploading from File System it would upload from SVN … that looks good! will have to research on which tools I can use to do that! :)

Fishing routers

November 10th, 2006 Comments off

Since I have implemented IPv6 in my network, I am suffering from lack of Ethernet – Ethernet router which can do IPv6. It means that my laptop has to stay wired to external/border router and my sharp server is not yet available over IPv6.

I am fishing on Ebay for any IPv6 capable router, my bad, I know only about Cisco 8[3,5,7]1 routers which are also in price range acceptable for me. Maybe you know about any other ? does not have to be Cisco ( however I prefer ) and does not have to be new.

IPv6

November 4th, 2006 Comments off

No problem. Just finished setting up my router with IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel to Hurricane Electric … and it works! and it is amazing how easy it is to do when doing it with Cisco IOS … Linux requires more steps.

But … if I wish to make it something permanently fitted in to my network, I will need to redesign it, and replace at least one router with something what supports IPv6 and no doubt it will be Cisco … unless you know other Big Brand, cheap router.