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tech stuff: April 2012

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. How to install Node.js on Debian stable (squeeze). At the moment the nodejs. Package is available only in Debian unstable. So you'll have to build it yourself. There are several ways to compile Node.js, here I chose the nvm. Way NVM is a simple bash script for building and managing node.js installations. Script itself https:/ raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/nvm.sh. You need to source. Links to this post.

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tech stuff: July 2010

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Using HAProxy as a reverse proxy. I had a web app that was using some Comet functionality. Since Apache is no good for that I had to run additionally cometd. Naturally I wanted both web servers to be accessible on port 80 for which a reverse proxy was needed. Its config file is /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg. There you define two backends for the two web servers:. By default requests are forwarded to the apaches.

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tech stuff: November 2011

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Make[2]: * * No rule to make target `/usr/include/bits/predefs.h', needed by `dvdnav.o'. Stop. Make[2]: * * No rule to make target `/usr/include/bits/predefs.h', needed by `dvdnav.o'. Stop. I got this error during recompiling XBMC on Debian. The problem is that I was missing the whole /usr/include/bits/. Directory, because at some point Debian moved it to /usr/include/x86 64-linux-gnu/bits/. Links to this post.

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tech stuff: August 2010

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Ifup (if-up.d) bash script for running dhcpd only when needed. Sometimes I use my Debian box as a wifi hotspot (wlan0) and other times as a NAT router for my TV (eth1). On both occasions I rely on dhcpd to configure my network, but I don't need it running all the time. Also I hate to manually restart it when bringing up an interface. The following bash script must be in /etc/network/if-post-down.d. Simple temp...

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tech stuff: July 2011

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Setting Debian development server on a VirtualBox virtual machine. I hate using daemons on Windows and sometimes the server environment is critical for the application being developed. That's why I often use a virtual machine running Linux, just like I'd use a remote development server. Download your ISO (I prefer Debian. And install it on a virtual machine (VM). In VirtualBox- Preferences- Network. In the VM'...

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tech stuff: March 2010

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Installing XBMC on Debian. OUTDATED, XBMC is on git now and have a few different dependencies. First of all, debian-multimedia. S package is outdated. Scripts and plugins don't work well with it and it can only read mkvs with a maximum of 20 streams (that is a fault of ffmpeg's libavformat. You have to compile the package yourself. See here. Which is the latest non-live stable version for Linux. Libglu-dev lib...

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tech stuff: April 2010

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. How to set up a dhcp server on Debian. This one is pretty easy. Install the package:. During setup you'll be asked on which network interface the daemon should run. That parameter is passed on the command line. If you want to change the interface run. And it is well documented. To get a basic configuration running you need to set two things. First, the DNS servers your dhcp clients will receive:. If there is a...

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tech stuff: Problem with Cyrillic parameters in AJAX request

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Keeping track on stuff I find useful. These are mostly notes to self, not full blown tutorials. Problem with Cyrillic parameters in AJAX request. Some browsers (IE) don't pass properly Cyrillic parameters when making an AJAX call. The following JavaScript code will escape the characters properly:. EncodeURIComponent("text with абвгд") .replace(/! G, '%21') .replace(/'/g, '%27') .replace(/ (/g, '%28') .replace(/ )/g, '%29') .replace(/ */g, '%2A') .replace(/%20/g, ' '). Will be passed just fine.