mormanski

I recently switched from using Ladbrokes Poker Client to using Party Poker. I use linux and so I have installed it using Wine. Here’s how I did it.

Install wine
Configure wine
Install Mozilla
Install Mozilla ActiveX Control
Install Shockwave plugin
Install Party Poker Client

1. Install wine
I have installed wine version 0.9.29. My distribution is Gentoo and so as root I [...]

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I recently decided to use a php cache to speed up the response of my websites. I decided to use PECL-APC (Alternative PHP Cache) and I did the following

Installing PECL-APC
Check Installation
Fix Problems with PECL-APC and Gallery

1. Installing PECL-APC

I’m using PHP5 and Gentoo. The dev-php5/pecl-apc package is masked by the ~x86 keyword and so I [...]

Here’s a summary of what we’re going to do…

emerge Geo-IP
Check that it works using geoiplookup
Edit the awstats config file

1. Emerge Geo-IP
It’s as easy as …
emerge Geo-IP
This will also emerge the geoip package if it is not already installed.
2. Check that it works using geoiplookup
We can check that geoip is working using the geoiplookup command…
geoiplookup www.bbc.co.uk
Should [...]

I have a server running Gentoo Linux which hosts a Subversion repository, a vpopmail and qmail system, a MySql database and more. I’m going to make a backup copy of the data on this machine in the event that I need to rebuild this server. I have chosen Flexbackup to perform this task. Here’s how I did it.