About using Rosetta

Uncategorized 11 May 2007 | 0 Comments

Oh, that reminds me… I should really contact some translators to ask for updates and release Gnome Specimen 0.2. —Wouter Bolsterlee The Gnome Specimen product is not set up for translation in Launchpad. You might want to talk with Wouter Bolsterlee (uws), the project registrant, about using Rosetta. —Launchpad Done!

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Using OpenDNS servers with bind9 easily

Uncategorized 9 October 2006 | 1 Comment

The OpenDNS FAQ purports to have a solution to this problem, but it does something obscure to a file I don’t have on my system. So I quickly checked the man page and came up with this: /etc/bind/named.conf.options //Add this somewhere inside the options{}; section… forward only; forwarders { //OpenDNS 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; };

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Easier local DNS cache

Uncategorized 9 October 2006 | 1 Comment

After a while pdnsd stopped working for me, and try as I might I can’t fix it. So I purged pdnsd and found an easier method, with no configuration this time!apt-get install bind9 resolvconf

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Easy, persistent, local DNS cache to reduce lookup times

Uncategorized 5 October 2006 | 2 Comments

Important Update! Don’t use this method any more! I have a much easier way to do it in a more recent post. But for posterity… First install resolvconf and pdnsd: sudo apt-get install pdnsd resolvconf. Resolvconf handles the messy interaction between different programs fighting over the /etc/resolv.conf file, and pdnsd provides a persistent DNS daemon, [...]

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