Brain Goo

There are a million pages devoted to initramfs so I won’t go in to what it is, but if you have a Dell 1655 or other machine with serial-attached-SCSI and use Debian or a Debian-derived Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Kbuntu, you may have run in to an issue booting after installing a kernel [...]

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It’s easy to set up a shared calendar system with free software that scales well for a few users (great for a home network) and has tons of support from third parties.
What you need:

iCal client like Sunbird or Lightning from Mozilla
Apache web server with WebDav installed

How to do it:

Install WebDav and password protect a public [...]

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If you use Debian with a “standard” or “desktop” install, you will not have GCC installed. Of course you can easily get it by installing the package:
apt-get install gcc
And of course you need make
apt-get install make
What you don’t know is that you won’t be able to do anything without your C library and headers. [...]

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