Installing kFreeBSD
While looking at some of our groups overloaded and slowly dying file servers we kept thinking "man ZFS" would be cool, but installing it on linux is a pain. At some point I noticed the existance of...
View ArticlePorting QtGstreamer to Gstreamer 1.0
I started using KDE Telepathy recently and wanted to have a working FOSS alternative to the world of Google Hangouts and Skype. Unfortunately KTP's call stack was becoming increasingly unreliable as...
View ArticleKTP-Call UI and QtGstreamer almost 1.0
People have been asking me about QtGstreamer 1.0 in various IRC channels. David Edmundson told me he was asked if it was ready at FOSDEM. It works. I have ported KTP-Call-UI and Kamosa to use...
View ArticleLDAP / Kerberos Client configuration for Debian Wheezy (7.0)
Introduction This is my quick summary of how to configure a machine to be a client machine in a centrally managed cluster, as in these computers are clients of other LDAP / Kerberos servers....
View ArticleBottom up Kolab
Introduction Kolab Sys has been putting a lot of effort into developing various components to provide a turn key enterprise communication platform. Unfortunately for me, they seem to be more of a...
View ArticleWhat about e-mail?
I've been contemplating e-mail for a while and wondering why its hated by many, and why many prefer things like Facebook or Slack. So first, its worth thinking about whats special about email and why...
View ArticlePut your hand in the Inbox
I have a confession, I struggle with email. I hear lots of people do. The Free software world runs on email. People discuss development and provide support via mailing lists. All bug trackers will nag...
View ArticleExample Pump.io apache configuration
Someone on IRC asked how to run pump behind an Apache2 proxy, I thought I'd extract my configuration and try to post it so maybe it'd be helpful for others. You'll need to enable proxy, proxy_http and...
View ArticleDjango in a Subfolder
I had a request from a user to deploy a django application in a web subfolder, and I found several somewhat contradictory solutions out on the web. Here's my effort at providing a simpler explanation...
View ArticleHow to use telepathy-idle with znc
There's a really nice IRC client for GNOME called Polari, but as far as I can tell the built in UI has diffculty connecting to a ZNC bouncer. These instructions should allow adding an IRC account for...
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