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	<title>Axeorcat.com</title>
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	<description>Would you prefer to be an axe or a cat? That is the question. //  I Code. I Sysadmin. I Beer.</description>
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		<title>Upgrading from Karmic to Lucid Desktop i386</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upgrading standard desktop version takes about 2 hours on a trusty old Dell 2650 server. Got the message that bluetooth and a bunch of other packages are no longer supported by the Ubuntu team. Presume this is mostly just package restructuring  &#8211; bluetooth is in the linux kernel as I understand it.
TIP: to enable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/339-upgrading-from-karmic-to-lucid-desktop-i386</link>
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		<title>Simple patch allows correct permissions for auto install of Wordpress plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This problem comes up now and again:

you want to use the Wordpress web admin interface to install plugins/themes etc
your webserver user correctly has write access to the wp-content directory as documented (you probably set it group writeable)
Wordpress fails to perform the install (and instead asks you for your FTP details instead as a fallback)

Why does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/329-simple-patch-allows-correct-permissions-for-auto-install-of-wordpress-plugins</link>
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		<title>Setup a central Git repository</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the server side create a repo with files then fetch it into a bare repo which becomes our central repo.

mkdir repo
cp -r /tmp/myproject repo/myproject
cd repo
mkdir myproject.git
cd myproject.git
git --bare init
git --bare fetch ../myprojectmaster:master
git config --global user.name scuadm
git config --global user.email scuadm@localhost
rm -rf ../myproject

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		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/324-setup-a-central-git-repository</link>
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		<title>How big (diskspace wise) is a basic but functional linux server install?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a Debian Lenny server that has apache/php installed and a bunch of other standard tools (tcpdump etc) but no database.
The server files (and I&#8217;m guessing reserved blocks) come to a total of 1.27GB.


pe7:/# du -sm /*
5       /bin
23      /boot
0     [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/320-how-big-is-a-basic-but-functional-linux-server-install</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Hardy Heron!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Hardy Heron was well named (luckily!). 
Hardy has definitely been the most reliable Ubuntu release for me so far. 
Hardy has performed robustly for 2 years for me since April 2008 and still going strong in daily use in 2010. Yes, I still use it on (a) my development server and (b) a Tecra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/281-happy-birthday-hardy-heron</link>
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		<title>Linux vs FreeBSD PHP performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FreeBSD p04/p10 setup slower than single Linux p09 for some reason
Apache/Network seems same
From office to DC same performance on requesting small static file:  ab -n 100 -c 5 http://srv/robots.txt
On each server same performance requesting a smallish text file from  localhost on each machine itself : (ab -n 100 -c 5   http://dev.lan/100k.txt)
[dev-lin] Requests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/295-linux-vs-freebsd-php-performance</link>
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		<title>Beauty of Maths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ reproduced from an email I got ]
Beauty of Maths!
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/91-beauty-of-maths</link>
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		<title>Mobile Phone SAR values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sar (all 2w/kg values):
n96 rm-247 2w/kg 0.91
n96 rm-297 2w/kg 0.87
n96 rm-472 2w/kg 0.82
nokia 6650 0.64 GPS
nokia 5310 0.98 &#8211; 1.07  £99
nokia 6300 0.57 &#8211; 0.63   £80 good review, nice phone, no GPS
nokia 6300i 0.97
Nokia 6600 (NHL-10) 0.80
Nokia 6600 Slide(RM-414) 0.44
Sony 760i 0.53 freezin phone
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/57-mobile-phone-sar-values</link>
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		<title>Business Plan Questions To Consider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What do investors look for in a business plan?
A: A clear understanding of the business. How do you plan to make money? How much money is required? Why is your company unique? Why can it overcome much larger and better financed competition? What does the competition look like, both startup and large company competition? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/18-business-plan</link>
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		<title>Create linux email account without shell account &#8211; Postfix/Dovecot virtual user setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We want a virtual mail server setup i.e. we don&#8217;t want to have to create linux accounts on our server for every mailbox (for security and maintenance reasons).

Tell Postfix to use virtual mailboxes under a single vmail linux user/group with mail stored in maildir format under /home/vmail (Refs: http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html and ubuntu.

In main.cf comment out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.axeorcat.com/231-how-to-setup-postfixdovecot-in-virtual-mode</link>
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