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Running OpenBoard in a window

OpenBoard home page Download the patch Github discussion Willy Sudiarto's SlackBuild (for Slackware users) These days I'm forced again to do lessons from remote. My school asked me to refer to Google Meet for the videoconferences and one thing I disliked was the Jam interactive...

Slackware guest on Linux-VServer

Info: http://linux-vserver.org/ What is Linux-Vserver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer Download only my patch: /files/linux-vserver/linux-vserver_slackware-14.2.patch Download my patch and installer script: /files/linux-vserver/slack_vserver.tar.gz NEW: patch and installer script for current@29.08.2020 (testing) Linux-Vserver is an open source software which acts as a virtual private server implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization...

Migrating from Linux-VServer to LXC (Slackware)

Tired of the nightmares of remotely compiling the kernel with Linux-VServer, a software that I'm pleased with despite of some lack of documentation, these days I was playing with LXC, which is included and supported by Slackware and for which the Linux...

Building your own mozilla-sync-1.1 server

NB: DOES NOT WORK WITH FIREFOX 29 AND LATER More info:  http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/setting-up-your-own-mozilla-sync-server/ (for Slackware users) http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html File synchronization (or syncing) in computing is the process of ensuring that computer files in two or more locations are updated via certain rules. In one-way file synchronization, also called...

How to backup a server with rsync via ssh login without password

Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool.  It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon.It offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behavior and...

Running two php/mysql/mariadb versions on the same apache web server

In a web server  very old applications must coexist with new ones. Usually old applications are no more mantained and still require old versions of php and mysql, while recent apps claim to use the latest features of your apache, php...

SEO friendly URLs con apache mod_rewrite

Assumerò che il lettore sia familiare con il concetto di "SEO friendly URLs". In caso contrario è consigliabile leggere prima queste pagine: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76329 http://www.avangate.com/articles/url-rewriting_70.htm Al costo di "imbrodarmi" un po', utilizzerò come caso reale un mio lavoro: http://wildzone.it. Si tratta di una galleria di...