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Keep Calm and Install Wheezy

Want to give it a try? Check out the live images! Want to install it? Choose your favorite installation media among Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks. Already on Debian and want to upgrade? You are just an apt-get dist-upgrade away from Wheezy! Find how, reading the installation guide and the release notes.

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How-To Technical

Remove CD-ROM from apt-get repositories

I just got my hands on the new Debian 7 DVDs and installed a fresh server install. Now up and running its time to use aptitude to install some software when I kept receiving the following message: Media change: please insert the disc labeled ‘Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ – Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20130504-14:44’ in the drive ‘/media/cdrom/’ […]

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Debian Wheezy Released

Hello all,. Just a reminder and a notice to those who have waited many months of development. The Debian Project has finally released #wheezy For those of you not in the know: Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. This new […]

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How-To Personal

Attach and Reattach to screen session

While using ssh to connect to my home systems to mange my servers (such as Minecraft) I use screen to keep my session(s) open so that if I get disconnected or simply forget and close my putty session I can later resume.  I sometimes find myself in the situation where I go home and later want […]

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CrashPlan on headless debian server

I had been interested in using a backup solution for my photos when I came across CrashPlan. The price for one was a quick sale and the idea of being able to backup “unlimited” data from a single computer just seemed to fit what I had been looking for. I recently changed my home file […]

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“Permissions are too open”

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. – Theodore Roosevelt You are attempting to automate your ssh session to a remote system using keys and you get the following “Permissions are too open” message. The problem is, that […]