Category Archives: linux

Google Authenticator and a finished robot

Last Tuesday, we got our robot shipped, or rather, put in a big clear plastic bag with big red zip tie on it. Although we shipped overweight, and missing a few components, this is better than last year on completeness … Continue reading

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Mind the moving Infrastructure

When you vote next week in Fedora Elections, try to do it during the workweek. The Infrastructure is moving to a new datacenter. Just remember that the move is happening. Of course don’t forget to vote.

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cPanel is bad.

Not only did cPanel take forever to “install” it also didn’t completely install. It also messed with all sorts of files. Including the yum configuration file. Now I’m trying to sort out at least Apache. In short, don’t EVER try … Continue reading

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Fedora 12 Constantine

Yes, Fedora 12, Constantine has been released.  This release is focused on reinforcing stability, as well as making the desktop easier for new users. I’m hosting a release party on IRC, #Main on theoks.net. You can read the new features … Continue reading

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Fedora Activity Day – Fedora Talk (Day 1)

Day One of the Fedora Talk Activity day is over. Here’s some very quick wrapping up: Icecast streaming is now working pretty decently, however the current test server is in… Germany. (http://publictest16.fedoraproject.org:8000/test.ogg) Improvements on documentation, generally on the web site. … Continue reading

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Packaging ScriptBot for Fedora, a continuing adventure

You mostly likely know that I’m  a proud contributor to the Fedora Project. I helped out a bit on blogs.fedoraproject.org and I generally also keep the wiki clean. However, I haven’t ever made a package. So my first packaging adventure … Continue reading

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Things around here might get a lot faster

I was able to compile the memcache PECL extension for my copy of PHP on my Mac. Now I just need a separate machine for memcached. When I get such a thing, OKS Blog would be much better, as queries … Continue reading

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A brand new shiny yum repository!

Yes, that’s right, I have decided to start hosting a yum repository. I decided this because some packages just need to be packaged and won’t make it into big repos in some cases. Here’s how to get YOUR rpm package … Continue reading

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