2011

Debian Linux, from DHCP to static IP

       48 words, 1 minutes

Switching from DHCP to static IP on a Debian system requires only a few steps:

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Debian Lenny on NetBSD/xen

       249 words, 2 minutes

Debian Lenny is one of my favorite Linux Distribution (when I have to run Linux… ;) Here’s how to install and run a Lenny domU under a NetBSD/xen dom0 installation. My dom0 is running NetBSD 5.1_STABLE/amd64 and Xen version 3.3.2. The domU will be running Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (i386).

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Chroot Apache 2.2 on NetBSD

       100 words, 1 minutes

The Apache 2.2.17 package shipped in pkgsrc 2010Q4 comes with a nice <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#chrootdir">ChrootDir</a> directive that allows simple chroot configuration. First, you will need Apache in at least version 2.2.10. Then: # vi /usr/pkg/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (...) #DocumentRoot "/usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs" ChrootDir "/usr/pkg/share/httpd" DocumentRoot "/htdocs" (...) # ln -s /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs /htdocs

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Votre Carte Bancaire est suspendue

       876 words, 5 minutes

Petit manuel de prudence à l’usage des candides de l’Internet. Ce midi, en regardant mes mails à la machine à café (ok, il était 13:50), je tombe sur un mail m’indiquant que ma carte bleue a été volée, frauduleusement utilisée et bloquée par ma banque. Vu de mon iPhone™, ce mail avait l’air plutôt probable… Je me dis “tiens, mon dernier achat Internet aurait-il été de trop?”…

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Running Windows on Xen

       199 words, 1 minutes

The NetBSD/xen port is able to run M$ Windows domU, since you have a CPU that features the Intel® VMX instruction.

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