Archive for October, 2008

 

Installing MapServer on Debian Lenny – 27. October, 2008

In this post I will document my playing around with MapServer. I’ll do my best to update this as best I can, but consider this as on ‘under construction status’…

Debian Lenny comes with version 5 of MapServer, so in order to install it you just need to type in the terminal as root:

apt-get install cgi-mapserver mapserver-bin mapserver-doc  php-mapscript python-mapscript.

If you don’t have apache2 running and configured than you should also install apache2.

In debian cgi-scripts are install by default to /usr/lib/cgi-bin but are linked to /cgi-bin in the default install of apache2 in debian.

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The King is Dead ! Hooray ! Long live the new King ! – 27. October, 2008

I sometimes wonder how come most of the computer users around the world live in democracy, yet when it comes to who governs their data and privacy they like living in dictatorship.

Most users cling to their silly microsoft computers. They will buy Vista even though they heard it’s bad. A few of my friends really despise Vista, but they won’t even consider an alternative. Why ? Because Microsoft is the king. For them a computer is Microsoft. And they wait for the king to release a better service pack or what ever. (more…)

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KDE4 is the Linux Vista – 13. October, 2008

Personally I don’t really favor the K Desktop Environment, but I do happen to use a lot of the application it provides. I actually did decide to give a try to the new KDE, in Debian, version 4.

So I added the repositories of the Debian KDE team, and install was a breeze. The first thing I wanted to check if rumors are true: that KDE4 is lighter. So I switch the default Log-in manager to KDM, and restarted the computer.

Here are my first observations regarding memory usage of KDE4: (more…)

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My Story with linux part 2: How I learned to love Debian – 9. October, 2008

In the previous part of this long inventory post, I’ve finished with Debian Etch. After a year and a half of distro hoping, I’ve decided that I’m experienced enough to try the new Debian Etch. I’ve already had an experience with the Ubuntu alternate installer, and I knew more or less what I was doing.

But back then, if you read something about Debian, the constant theme was that Debian is hard and only for advanced users. But hey, there’s Etch. It had a new shiny fancy graphical installer. So I downloaded the CD, burned it and started the install.

Being young and sometimes impatient I started the install with out reading the help options. (more…)

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