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When the boot process hangs during the following:

Creating root device.
Mounting root filesystem.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Welcome to  CentOS release 5 (Final)
Press ‘I’ to enter interactive startup.

Do the follwing:

1. Start the server with an rescue cd and access (chroot) the disk
2. Give the following command:

mv hwclock hwclock.original echo “exit 0″ > hwclock chmod 755 hwclock

Now restart the server. The problem cause an error with the clock. For more info see: http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Xen_CentOS/Fedora/Red_Hat_Guest_OS_Hangs_During_Boot

- Install an debian enviroment
- Install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libncurses-dev bison libecj-java bison

See this site for instructions: http://trac.freetz.org/wiki/help/howtos/common/newbie.en

Happy flashing

By default Meego 1.0 does not support the wireless broadcom chipset from the dell mini 9. I will explain how you can install Meego as netbook OS for your mini 9 with wireless

• First download Meego
• Then use Win32DiskImager.exe to create a bootable USB stick with the Meego image
• Install Meego
• Use the following procedure to fix the wireless:

Instructions (tnx LostLogic @ Dell Forum):
Go to the applications tab, and type Terminal. Launch it

$ sudo yum install rpmdevtools
$ sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
$ sudo yum install kernel-netbook-devel

Restart the notbook after the kernel is installed.

Download the 32-bit package from this site and put it in your home/download dir
Broadcom.com – 802.11 Linux STA driver

$ cd Downloads
$ mkdir hybrid_wl
$ cd hybrid_wl
$ tar xvzf /home/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36.tar.gz
$ make clean
$ make

You might get a warning during the make build. Don’t worry, it won’t affect the later steps!

$ modprobe lib80211
$ sudo insmod wl.ko

Welcome to WiFi MeeGo!

We might want the driver to load every time we boot up MeeGo, so let’s do the following!
$ sudo cp wl.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
$ sudo depmod -a

Sometimes you can’t give someone the root password but you he/she must have root access. You can follow this steps to create a additional root account:
Add a new user:

# useradd newuser

Set a password for the new user

# passwd newuser

Once done, edit the ‘passwd’ file

# nano /etc/passwd

set the UID:GUD bits to 0:0. Say for example the new user is ‘newuser’, the line should look like

newuser:x:0:0::/home/newuser:/bin/bash


There are alot of Live Linux dstributions. There is an very easy way to run a live distro from USB. Check: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Distributions with Built-in Support

UNetbootin has built-in support for downloading and installing the following distributions:

• Ubuntu (and official derivatives)
  • 6.06 LTS
  • 6.10
  • 7.04
  • 7.10
  • 8.04 LTS
  • 8.10
  • 9.04
  • Daily CD Images
• Debian
  • Stable/Etch
  • Testing/Lenny
  • Unstable/Sid
• Linux Mint
  • 3.1
  • 4.0
  • 5-r1
  • 6
• openSUSE
  • 10.2
  • 10.3
  • 11.0
  • 11.1
  • Factory
• Arch Linux
  • 2007.08
• Damn Small Linux
  • 4.4
• SliTaz
  • Stable
  • Cooking
• Puppy Linux
  • 4.00
• gNewSense
  • deltah-2.1
• FreeBSD
  • 6.3
  • 7.0
• NetBSD
  • 4.0
• Fedora
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • Rawhide
• PCLinuxOS
  • 2007
  • 2008
• Sabayon Linux
  • 4-LiteMCE
• Gentoo
  • 2007.0
  • 2008.0
• MEPIS
  • SimplyMEPIS 8
  • AntiX 8
• Zenwalk
  • 5.2
• Slax
  • 6
• Dreamlinux
  • 3.2
• Elive
  • Development
• CentOS
  • 4
  • 5
• Mandriva
  • 2007.1
  • 2008.0
  • 2008.1
• FaunOS
  • 0.5.4
• Frugalware Linux
  • Stable
  • Testing
  • Current
• xPUD
  • 0.8.9

Update Deamon

sa-update -D

Restart Service

service spamassassin restart

Check version

perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e ‘print $Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION;’

Hi,

2 easy commands to secure your Joomla site:

cd /var/www/somewebdir/
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Yes, I know… My Joomla site is very old. In this article I will write down all my migration steps. The best practise is to create a development environment. I download and install a Debian 5.0 (lenny) OS and installed all the common LAMP, SSH, Samba, PHPMyadmin & ImageMagick  packages. Then:

1. I Copy the content of my site to my development environment
2. Edit the joomla configuration.php file and change my physical paths
3. Upload my database
4. Check all my joomla modules
5. set 777 permisions for easy testing
6. I know from earlier testing that mine Joomla template is not compatible with 1.5. So I download and install Artisteer 2 to create a new template. This software works so easy I created the template with my girlfriend (download torrent)
7. My Biggest concern is the community builder component and the forum. This are the most important modules so I will upgrade them first.
8. Backup administrator/components/com_comprofiler/ue_config.php, remove the CB module and reinstall the latest versions. (note: latest CB have 1.5.10 native support)
9. My Fireboard version is aleady to the latest version (1.0.5 RC2)
10. Now I will install the migrator tools and follow the 5 migration steps @ http://docs.joomla.org/Migrating_from_1.0.x_to_1.5_Stable
11. I have installed the migrator and the fireboard ETL’s. After that I create A SQL Dump. Now I must create a new 1.5 install and import everything.
12. Note: You can now download your SQL dump file and upload it into your Joomla! 1.5 installation to continue the process. Don’t forget to select migration and use the prefix ‘jos_’ (this migrator rewrites your prefix to jos_ even if the sites prefix is different).
13. I found a small community builder howto @ http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-15/migrating-to-joomla-15/
14. * Step 1: Export the Community Builder database tables from 1.0
    * Step 2: Download administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
    * Step 3: Install CB on the 1.5 site:
    * Step 4: Delete the CBt database tables on 1.5 and import the old tables from 1.0
    * Step 5: Upload the old ue_config.php to administrator / components / com_profiler / ue_config.php
15. For expose I can install the latest version. The copy the ../components/com_expose/expose/img and xml folders to the new site. That as very easy
16. For the CB Profile pictures I copy images/comprofiler to the new site.
18. .. to be continued

Template fix:

Extensions > Module manager > Top Menu (or any other menu, e.g. Main Menu) > click to Edit this module > select Position = user3. Save the configuration and go to the frontpage. You should see your Artisteer style applied to the menu items.

And first assign another default template and then your template

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

How longer you use firefox how slower the automatic search will be. There is a plugin thats defragment the search database.

Quote Vacuum Places Improved 1:

Defragments your Firefox “Places” database (history/bookmarks)
This greatly reduces the lag while typing in the address bar and the start-up time.
This extension features configurable automatic cleaning, periodic reminder, and internationalization.

URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/13878