This brief blog entry will note the couple of forgettable steps to enabling Drupal's Clean-URLs on a freshly installed Ubuntu GNU/Linux web-server. First, we check if the rewrite_module is already loaded or not.

Sonata is an elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). The latest version is 1.2.3. Features: Expanded and collapsed views, Automatic remote or local album art, Automatic fetching of lyrics, Playlist and stream support, Support for editing song tags, System tray icon with tooltip, Popup notification, Library searching and playlist filtering, Audioscrobbler (last.fm) support, Multiple MPD profiles, Keyboard friendly, Support for multimedia keys, & Commandline control.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It also makes a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often.

Just in case you do not know what KeePassX is, here is a short description… "KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License."

Now, until fairly recent KeePass required either Wine or CrossOver for password management on my Ubuntu Linux desktop. Not anymore. While using Ubuntu 7.04 simply fetch it using the local repository. Joy! Go download. :-)

In this brief blog entry I will note the steps to basically "enable" OpenSSL encryption using the available Apache2 package in the apt-get repositories. On Ubuntu this has been verified, and the packages are so very similar that Debian testing (plus) should be using the same steps. Any administrator of a computer should always practice security using any means possible. OpenSSL is the available solution in this scenario.

In a previous blog entry you may have noticed that I picked up a Belkin Wireless G USB network adapter. Happy with the Belkin quality I went back to my local electronics store and got a Wireless G Notebook Card (F5D7010 v4). So, in this blog entry I will be installing the Wireless card and setting up WPA security.

In this brief blog entry I will note the steps it took for me to use the Network File System (NFS) protocol to share files between another Linux computer. All machines in this lab are either Debian GNU/Linux (unstable) or Ubuntu Linux (breezy badger 5.10 w/ back-port upgrades). After reading countless threads and comments for file sharing they all pretty much suggested SaMBa as the simplest solution. In case you aren't familiar SaMBa software will allow a UNIX machine to act as a file server to Windows clients. SMB is fine if you _need_ to share with DOS but we don't need that here. Another option is NFS.

First download opera and select the 'correct' package for your system. Save the file to your home folder. Next open a terminal window and type;

sudo dpkg -i opera*

Next you will want to grab the needed packages. Again in terminal;