Category Archives: How Tos

Debian Key Signing Bug: NO_PUBKEY

Posted on September 6, 2007 by admin

There appears to be a bug in Debian’s key signing system. Depending on your apt sources you may run in to packages signed by a key that Debian doesn’t like. Annoyingly, these are Debian-signed packages, but unless you want to … Continue reading →

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Debian-based machines and the (initramfs) prompt

Posted on August 9, 2007 by admin

There are a million pages devoted to initramfs so I won’t go in to what it is, but if you have a Dell 1655 or other machine with serial-attached-SCSI and use Debian or a Debian-derived Linux distribution such as Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Poor man’s calendar server with iCal and Mozilla

Posted on July 25, 2007 by admin

It’s easy to set up a shared calendar system with free software that scales well for a few users (great for a home network) and has tons of support from third parties. What you need: iCal client like Sunbird or … Continue reading →

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