Archive for June, 2007
HTTP Compression on Redhat / CentOS / Fedora
I was doing some testing on my server the other day, and realised that http compression within apache (httpd) was not enabled by default. Further digging showed me that mod_defate was what I needed, and infact it was installed by default on my CentOS box.
How to enable mod_default on Centos: Create /etc/httpd/conf.d/deflate.conf with the following contents
n800 bookmarks
For those who are looking for n800 resources, last night I published all of my n800 bookmarks - http://del.icio.us/linickx/n800
They will eventually be pushed here with my other del.icio.us bookmarks but due to the recent vulnerability in xmlrpc I’ve disabled the access.
Being an n800 owner is expensive.
I’ve had my n800 a couple of weeks now, and I’m still in the “lovin it!” phase; but one of the things I’ve quickly noticed is that being an n800 owner is quickly going to become an expensive affair.
I’m a novice PDA person, in fact this is the first one I’ve brought, previous companies have leant me smart-phone PDA’s so actually buying one was a big commitment to me… we all know that computer technology, especially gadgets have a limited lifespan.
What’s happened to the linux counter?
I’ve been a proud linux counter member (#372709) for sometime now; a few days ago I got some bounce-back error messages..
<machine-registration@gimel.counter.li.org> (expanded from <machine-registration@counter.li.org>): delivery temporarily suspended: connect to gimel.counter.li.org[158.38.152.227]: No route to host</machine-registration@counter.li.org></machine-registration@gimel.counter.li.org>
I didn’t think, much of it at the time, maintenance happens, but today noticed it again, a quick google shows that others have noticed too… I do hope this isn’t the end of what was a great project 
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux… CentOS !
Why has it taken me so long to spot this ? Looks like this draft was written on the 13th May, if I hadn’t have been just about to download FC7 then I’d have missed it !
EPEL - Fedora Project Wiki
EPEL is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs like CentOS or Scientific Linux.
About time, and thank you redhat/fedora, want fedora extra packages in centos, then install this epel-release .rpm frickin’ sweet ! 