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Upgraded from Highlight Source Pro to CodeColorer as one of the latest updates fixed a bug where it didn’t like my theme. Also upgraded to the latest Wordpress Version

Shouldn’t cause any problems but if someone gets a mangled page let me know

For all those who use Atlassian Products such as Jira or Confluence, you may or may not be familiar with Crowd now for anyone using Jira and Confluence it can allow you to use your existing user DB for multiple other systems, Personally i use it as a client access database to keep external users out of my AD database wherever possible while allowing internal users to still access these systems with their AD accounts.

With the right plug-in’s you can hook the system into pretty much everything, the most flexible one is the Apache 2 module, personalty i use it mostly as i had endless troubles getting recursive sub group lockups working with the free Apache modules floating around.

If you need to use a proxy, set it now

For Debian just copy and past the commands below, for other Distrobutions you will need to install the equivalent packages

Then to download, install and build the required modules the commands below should work.

From Here the Atlassian Article Integrating Crowd with Apache is the best place to go

My Previous post Subversion 1.6 on Debian Lenny has been quite popular! So i thought i should post this next snippet for people, Its the process i used for upgrading my 1.6.1 setup as detailed in the previous post to 1.6.3.

The previous post pulled packages from the experimental branch, This one pulls from the Sid (unstable) branch as it is more up to date then experimental.

Below are the commands i used for a 64bit OS, dont have any 32bit SVN servers lying around anymore so i don’t have a system to work out the require 32bit packages but in theory it should be as simple as changing “amd64″ to “i386″ in all the URL’s below

You will need to restart Apache after the upgrade

Currently the Version of Subversion in Debian Lenny is 1.5.1, there are a few bugs in this that could be show stoppers if you are using a write through proxy setup for your SVN Repo’s as i have. There are two bugs that keep cropping up, one that is solved in 1.5.5, the other in 1.6, however if you want to use debian packages the easiest way i have found to install them is as follows

Update 1: Few people are having problems, this guide assumes your running lenny with the default svn packages already installed, to do this try running the command below to install the latest version from apt (1.5.x as i write this) including the required Apache modules

Update 2: New post on how to extend this guide to go from svn 1.6.1 to svn 1.6.3 – Debian: Upgrade Svn 1.6.1 to 1.6.3

32Bit

64 Bit

This little hack allows you to run commands directly at the server itself and is very handy for doing things like enabling SSH in inetd.conf. First thing first. This only works on the fee based version not the free one and you must be sitting at the server and not RCLI.

• Step One: At the server console type ALT-F1
• Step Two: Now you’ll just see basically a console log with no prompt. Don’t sweat it! Just type: unsupported and hit enter. This does not echo back so you will not see your input.
• Step Three: Now a big scary tech support warning will pop up. Just laugh it off and enter your server password at the prompt.

And you’re in! I really just do this to enable SSH but I have also used this to edit etc/hosts to rule out DNS issues.

From NetworkWorld

Quick tip for anyone running Debian Lenny under VMware. As the tools were open sourced you can now find an implementation in your apt tree. Although personally i haven’t seen a quick and easy guide floating around.

Run the fowling as root

Yes i was one of those in line for over an hour waiting to get in to claim my free t shirt. This was rather disappointing when i ran into a few friends who didn’t join the line till after it opened and still managed to grab a T-Shirt. They were still handing them out when i left. at time of writing there is already three on ebay, one currently going for $90.

So why did i brave the crowds? My excuse was that i work less the 100 meters from the new store so i couldn’t Not go could i now? Due to Apples Cult like fowling they don’t need to advertise events, the media does it for them. One MacTalk Forum member got interviewed over 15 times while waiting in line. Not such events are truly complete without a good Bonehead. I felt it only right that i should facilitate this factor.

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Another day another word press install. I have lost track of how many of these i have done. Most of them never get more then about 5 posts before i get bored of them or a new WordPress bug comes out and they get hacked. Ah well there’s no time like the present to start over a new leaf?