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Comment on Whole-house networking without honeycombing walls by Les

Les — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:09:55 +0000

TVs not tv’s

Comment on Whole-house networking without honeycombing walls by Les

Les — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:09:33 +0000

whether you take the job or not, I would pay you to come set this up round my gaff. I have two plasma tv’s, one sky plus and one sky plus hd (yes, a quad lnb) and a loft that would be ideal for a server or two… and I’d love to have movies for the kids on a net box an viewable from anywhere in the house. I’ll follow the articles!

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Comment on Gendarmerie switch to open source by John Wallace

John Wallace — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:34:06 +0000

They’re after you already!! (well perhaps not the Gendarmerie since they have no jurisdiction here – (I think!))

Comment on Installing Nagios3 on Debian Etch by ZoX

ZoX — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:58:14 +0000

Excellent. It’s working. Nice tutorial, simple to follow.
Next step, make database with mysql to use nagios. Any “tutos” on that?

Comment on Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch. by Professor Falken

Professor Falken — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:57:55 +0000

Version of Puppet in Debian Etch: 0.20.1-1

Version of Puppet in Backports: puppet (0.24.4-8~bpo40+1)

Current Version of Puppet from GIT: 0.24.6 which includes a huge number of feature upgrades and bug fixes over the BPO version (http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UPGRADE).

So in short, I install from source because it provides more features.

I take your point about the automatic updates, however if you’re subscribed to the puppet mailing list, new releases and patches are announced and it’s simply a case of checking out the code and re-running the install steps.

If I had the time I’d offer to help maintain the packages, but I dont and I need the features in 0.25+ so I patch the software myself.

PF.

Comment on Installing Puppet from GIT on Debian Etch. by Prasinos

Prasinos — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:18:06 +0000

Why would you want to install from source? You are not changing anything in the app, you are not really learning anything, so there is no point really…

Installing from source in this case has many disadvantages, but the most important is that you lose the benefit of automatic *security* updates.

Comment on Installing Nagios3 on Debian Etch by Professor Falken

Professor Falken — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:36:01 +0000

ar-lock,

I agree completely, where possible the package should be used, however sometimes you need features that aren’t compiled into the package, other times it’s easier to install from source than perform a dist-upgrade!

Thanks for visiting,

Matt.