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MARK lines in messages log

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:34:40 +0000

I’ve found the following lines in /var/log/messages on my Debian server recently: Jan 5 12:13:09 www — MARK – Jan 5 12:33:09 www — MARK – Jan 5 12:53:10 www — MARK – Jan 5 13:13:12 www — MARK – … What’s this? It’s just a normal activity of syslog placing timestamp marks into /var/log/messages [...]

Debian perl locale warning messages

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:27:16 +0000

Question How to get rid of the following annoying perl warning messages on a fresh Debian system: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_COLLATE = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. [...]

Linux Mint – it’s like coming home

admin — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:47:28 +0000

I have switched to Linux Mint 11 Katya about a week ago and I’m completely satisfied. It’s really like coming home from the alien Unity. The interface is very usual and intuitive, no problems with Skype, screensavers etc. (See my post “Ubuntu 11.10 – First Problems“). I hope that the upcoming Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” [...]

Linux HOWTOs Mirror

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:23:03 +0000

I’ve created the mirror for The Linux Documentation Project HowTos. You can find it by the following links: Linux HOWTO Index Categorized List of HOWTOs Alphabetical List of HOWTOs

Linux Mint takes leadership on DistroWatch.com

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:34:13 +0000

Linux Mint distribution has become a “number one” in DistroWatch.com page hit rating. Ubuntu is now on the second position. The reasons for this are quite obvious. While Canonical made radical changes in Ubuntu desktop environment implementing Unity, Mint developers are still thinking about conservative Linux users which insist on Gnome 2 desktop being far [...]

Ubuntu 11.10 – First problems

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:13:55 +0000

I’ve installed the newest version of Ubuntu (11.10) about a week ago. There’re several small but annoying bugs found. I’ll try to search for possible solutions later. But now it’s just a list: Skype hangs completely during voice conversations. I need to issue kill -9 to restart. Filezilla hangs randomly Cannot switch off screensaver – [...]

Reviving this blog

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:52:21 +0000

Hello Linux professionals! I’ve found this abandoned project and decided to revive it. Some very old articles are restored from the original Linux Universe so if the authors don’t object to this it might help to start the things running. Here I’m going to post news about Linux distributions and software, my own advises and [...]

ACS calls for government open source mandate

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:05:23 +0000

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is calling for the federal government and the opposition to put in place policies that support open source software in an effort to boost the creation of local IT jobs in Australia and reduce what it estimates as a $14 billion ICT trade deficit. Speaking at the ALP Conference ‘fringe [...]

Lotus looks to Linux in messaging wars

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:02:31 +0000

Lotus is hoping a solid dose of penguin power will help it remain competitive in the ongoing battle with Microsoft for the enterprise messaging market. The IBM division announced a host of new product plans at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando last week and outlined future directions for its Lotus/Domino messaging platform. While some of [...]

SCO Hit by Massive DoS Attack

admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:00:00 +0000

The day of reckoning has arrived and it has spelled MyDoom for SCO’s web site. Sniff. Oddly enough, the DoS from one of the most widespread virus outbreaks hasn’t completely crippled their site. I am still able to pull up some of the site (albeit very slowly). That casts more doubt on their previous claims [...]