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Multiple MediaWikis on Debian

Posted Tue, 10/23/2007 - 23:50 by John Breslin

Spent a few hours today trying to make a "wiki farm" on Debian using MediaWiki. I already had six wikis using separate code directories on the one server, so when I needed to update them all it was a real pain. Having to create a seventh standalone wiki today pushed me to doing this. I documented it here. Not sure if my notes will be helpful to others but I hope so...

Decrypting PDFs for printing, modifying

Posted Thu, 01/11/2007 - 00:33 by John Breslin

I was trying to print out some PDF files today that I had downloaded from a government website, and encountered the encrypted PDF phenomenon (I got a "This operation is not permitted" message or some such).

iPodLinux, iDoom, Videos / Unwanted Scratches on iPod nano

Posted Thu, 12/08/2005 - 04:57 by John Breslin

I was showing off my iPod nano (won at the Simile ISWC 2005 semantic bank competition) at the Cork geek bloggers' dinner recently: just got iDoom working yesterday (thanks for the link to it Brendan!) and was watching videos on it today after installing the latest kernel from iPodLinux.

boards.ie Blogs Now Running WordPress MU

Posted Tue, 06/28/2005 - 01:13 by John Breslin

Wrote some vBJournal to WordPress MU conversion scripts yesterday and today. There is a security exploit in vBJournal, and no sign of it being resolved. We are now running Donncha's WordPress MU at blogs.boards.ie.

irishblogs.org | Irish Blogs. Organised.

Posted Mon, 05/16/2005 - 02:25 by John Breslin

irishblogs.org | Irish Blogs. Organised.

Started another site for free Irish blogs, because I wanted this one to be different: I'd like to allow people to organise their posts by category (using taxonomies) or tag (using folksonomies).

I've started the taxonomy, which is a hybrid of Yahoo! Directory and the Open Directory Project, but I'll add the new folksonomy module for Drupal (backported from 4.7 to 4.6) later on. I hope to enrole some taxonomy editors from the irishblogs mailing list too.

Thunderbird's RSS News and Blogs Fnality

Posted Fri, 05/06/2005 - 15:55 by John Breslin

I like Thunderbird's RSS functionality, especially the way you can forward interesting snippets from blogs to your friends via e-mail without copying from one news reader application to your mail client. I've only set up a few blogs and news sources in it so far but here's a screenshot of Thunderbird's RSS reader. There's probably something similar in Outlook, but I haven't used Outlook so can't confirm...

Debian on a Thinkpad R40

Posted Fri, 05/06/2005 - 13:56 by John Breslin

To keep track of progress and to help others who may be doing the same, here are some useful resources if you are installing Debian on a Thinkpad R40:

Windows No More

Posted Wed, 05/04/2005 - 15:26 by John Breslin

I've switched from Windows XP to Debian Linux. So far so good; converted mail from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird, and imported IE bookmarks to Firefox. Looking at the stuff I used to use on Windows, the main thing I'll miss will be my trusty CorelDRAW, but I can either find the Linux version or give WINE a try... I've left a stub install of Windows anyway for those applications you just can't get.