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Unfortunately the old debaday a blog which presents nice peaces of software from the Debian distribution died last year.

David Moreno Garza created one again so here is the new one: http://debaday.debian.net/

The website of the "Chemnitzer Linuxtage" 2006 is online now!

http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2006/info/
See you there.

Munin is a system monitoring tool which allows you to monitor your
server or whatever remote via a webinterface. It is also able to monitor multiple servers.
To create graphs it uses RRDtool.

The default installation on a debian system comes with a bunch of plugins for acpi, postfix, atp, processor, uptime and many others
which can be easily used together with munin. The best thing is that the plugins are only shell scripts combined with standard
unix tools like awk, sed and some perl which makes it easy to write your own plugins to monitor whatever you want via the webinterface.
For example the uptime plugin does not more than to execute
awk '{printf "uptime.value %.2f\n",$1/86400}' /proc/uptime and gives the output to munin.

You can see a list of example servers which use munin on http://www.linpro.no/projects/munin/example/.
This one is nice.
I tested it for a while now on my fileserver and installed in on other systems as well and it seems to be great and easy to use.

Matthew Palmer announced a new version of his very good Mentors FAQ on the debian-mentors list.

I've made several updates to the debian-mentors FAQ in the last few days,
including making mention of sponsors.debian.net, pointing to some revision
control howtos, a comprehensive description of native vs non-native
packages, and a pointer to the REJECT-FAQ (with a list of things to check
for in packages before upload).

This round of changes includes material or suggestions from Paul Wise, Joost
van Baal, Nico Golde, Matthijs Mohlmann, Jamie Jones, and Jay Berkenbilt. I
thank all of them for their contributions.

I'd encourage every new and prospective maintainer to check out the FAQ, and
if anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the FAQ further, I will
endeavour to incorporate your suggestions quicker than I have in the recent
past.

The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html

Most of the windows users know DVDshrink a tool to rip and burn illegal copies^W ^W backups of your DVD collection.

Now there is a simliar tool. Its name is ShrinkTo5 and it is open source, licensed under the GPL and should run under linux as well. The links for the linux source code are not yet available but should be in the next days/week.

Today I got this mail:

From: Joni Ellsworth
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317)
To: nico@ngolde.de
Subject: Mutt NG Developers Mailing List
Nico,

I was reading your posts on the Mutt NG Developers mailing group
yesterday, and think our site may be of interest to you. It will put all
the posts from the group on one page, and keep your inbox cleaner.

There is nothing to buy, and there is a video demo, if you like. If you
do get a chance to check it out, let me know what you think of it - I
value your opinion.

The site addy is http://www.roomity.com.

Thanks!

Do humans write spam today? This doesn't look like automated spam...
But whoever wrote it, it is a very good spam, hard to detect by spamassassin
or other baysian filters. "mailing group.."

Thanks Mika...
I needed:

for i in cyrus21-kolab*
do
mv "$i" "cyrus22${i/cyrus21}"
done

very often in the last weeks....

In the past the Debian wiki was found on http://wiki.debian.net. The .net services are unofficial services.
There are others like mentors.

Now there is an official wiki on .org. http://wiki.debian.org.
The wiki engine changed from twiki to moinmoin wiki.

My favorite wiki engine would be pmwiki because it doesn't require any database backend.