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Installation

How To: Install and Configure GitWeb

January 28, 2009
Git Gitweb Repo

Goal
Setting up gitweb (web interface for SCM software git) for your project’s git repository for public access and developer commits via ssh.
Assumptions

You already have your project’s git repository.
You have hosting space somewhere to host gitweb.
You have root access.
You are using Apache as webserver.

Example for this howto
Project : VideoCache
Domain for gitweb : git.cachevideos.com
URL for git access [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.5)

November 19, 2008

After spending a lot of time with youtube cache, now I am trying to devote some time to update intelligentmirror with required features and enhancements that youtube cache already enjoys. In the same direction here is version 0.5 of intelligentmirror.
Improvements

Added max_parallel_downloads options to controll the maximum threading fetching from upstream to cache the packages.
Fine grained [...]

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How To: Configure Caching Nameserver (named)

November 19, 2008

Mission
To configure a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It’ll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization).
Advantage

Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites are served from [...]

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IntelligentMirror Gets Even More Intelligent (1.0.1)

September 23, 2008

Warning : This version of IntelligentMirror is compatible with only squid-2.7 as of now. It is NOT compatible even with squid-3.0.
IntelligentMirror Version 1.0.1
I have been following squid development regularly (at least the part in which I am interested) and they have introduced a new directive in squid-2.7 known as StoreUrlRewrite (storeurl_rewrite_program). Using this directive you [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.4)

September 19, 2008

IntelligentMirror version 0.4 is available now. There have been significant improvements in intelligent mirror since last release.
Improvements

Fixed defunct process problem. You will not see defunct python processes hanging around anymore. Previously every forked daemon used to got defucnt because parent never waited for the forked child to finish.
IntelligentMirror now supports caching of Debian packages just [...]

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How To: Install Fedora without CD or DVD

August 26, 2008

Note: If you are new to Fedora/Linux, I highly recommend the book “Fedora Linux Toolbox”
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Use Case

When you don’t have CD / DVD drive on your system.
You have Fedora DVD but your system has only a CD Drive.
You don’t want to waste time and resources in burning iso on optical media.

Pre-requisites

You have a [...]

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IntelligentMirror: Available for Testing

August 19, 2008

Note : A newer version of intelligentmirror is available now. Please check this.
Intelligent Mirror is basically a tool or squid plugin (redirector) to cache rpm packages so that the subsequent requests for the same package can be served from the local cache which will eventually save a lot of bandwidth and downloading time.
Who needs Intelligent [...]

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How To: Configure Squid Proxy Server

May 2, 2008
Squid Caching Proxy Server

Mission
To configure squid for simple proxying without caching anything.
Use Cases

When you want to have control on what people browse on your lan.
When number of machine is more than the number of IP addresses you can afford to buy.
When you want to help this holy world in saving some IPV4 addresses

Assumptions

You have a machine [...]

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How To: Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP

December 11, 2007

I was randomly browsing the internet and reading about making a website look better and I encountered ffmpeg-php. ffmpeg is a very powerful tool to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its a very rich tool almost supporting every format out there in the world. It can convert any format to any other format [...]

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How To: Install PHP-Ming

November 29, 2007

Yesterday, I came across a library called ming for php which can do wonders while converting videos to .swf (flash), images to .swf and much more. The best thing is that ming provides wrappers in C/C++/PHP/Python/Perl/Tcl etc. So, can be used within any one of these languages. But, the damn thing drove me crazy while [...]

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