09.26.07
Posted in Open Source
at 6:38 pm
For organizing our move to the shared flat I was looking for a small, simple to use Wiki for collecting ideas and coordinating our flat inventory. After a little search I found DokuWiki. It can be easily installed by every Linux distribution’s package manager. Unfortunately the stable Debian package was not the newest version and annoyed me with banners that there are some upgrades available. So I tried again with the newest version from the developers site. After unpacking, the directory has to be made accessible through your Web server and after running the install.php where you actually only create the administrator user, the Wiki is already prepared to use. In the default configuration there is no database needed. But the strength of this Wiki is that it can be expanded by more sophisticated configurations using MySQL or an LDAP back-end for user administration. The syntax is quite simple and similar to other Wiki systems. Also my friends were surprised by the usability of this piece of Open Source software. So if you are planning to use a powerful but simple Wiki software, keep an eye on DokuWiki.
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09.24.07
Posted in Life
at 2:32 am
After nearly one year of searching an appropriate flat it succeeded. You cannot imagine how hard it is to get a flat near the university district Länggasse in Bern. Ether they do not have a balcony or they are much too expensive and they do not want students or, when you finally found one you like, there are at least twenty other parties having the same impression. But now, finally, I got the keys to my first own flat this weekend. Unfortunately it is not near the university but just next to the famous bear pit near the old town. Haha, I cannot wait to say “good night” to the bears before going home. Admittedly it is not only my flat. I share it with two colleagues who I already know since several years or even since the high school time. Soon I do not have to walk home for more than forty minutes when I once again missed the last bus. But I do have to wash for myself, cook for myself, care for myself… I am looking forward. Within the next few days I will always take some stuff into the new flat (beer is already cooled in the fridge since we received the keys 
) and when there is eventually Internet available everything will be ready to move. Life, i am coming…
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09.21.07
Posted in Website, google
at 3:21 am
What interesting pages link to ganto’s Blog?
And once more I became weak because of a google thing. It’s the google webmasters tools. You can dig in a lot of google records of your Web site. Maybe more about this later…
Here a first nice “partner” site:
Computers in Nantou County (Directory/Asia/Taiwan/Nantou County/Shopping/Computers) - Worldwidirectory.com
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09.18.07
Posted in News, Website
at 4:05 pm
This information is for all of you quite boring I know, but it is a happy thing for me. Finally my Xen domain, where I am hosting this Web site, has its own static public IP (193.138.215.129). Now I am ready for running all possible Internet services depending how I feel like. My first plan will be an own mail server with qmail. I am open about some tricks and hints about this. I eventually also found a domain name that suits for this site. When I do not change my mind again, the blog will be soon available under http://www.linuxmonk.ch.
There is a lot changing in my life at the moment so stay tuned for some more news later…
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