open-source Notes

Things to have in mind while installing a BOINC server on any linux distribution:
After adding a new user you have to check if the home-folder was created. Sometimes it won’t, so you have to manually create it.
$ mkdir /home/{username}
$ chown {username}:{username} /home/{username}
The link /usr/bin/gcc that points to the currently used compiler could be missing. This [...]

After several tries with Worpress, Gengo and gettext I gave up. Because of a bug within gettext, that’s the software used by Wordpress to show content in different languages, I can’t publish in German and English. It seems that gettext is not compatible with 64bit servers. Until this problem is solved I’m going to blog [...]