The first dish on our menu today is a classic; I have been eating it for years. I call it: Crème glacée au beurre d’arachide. Now, don’t let the fancy French name discourage you. Although it is one of the most complex dishes I am capable of making (and the hardest one on the list), most readers should be able to make it without too many problems. Step 1: put ice-cream into a bowl. Step 2: smear a thick layer of peanut butter on top of the ice-cream and, voilà, a masterpiece has been created!

If that last one was too difficult for you, don’t worry, you can always eat frozen blueberries. I discovered this delicacy recently for lack of a better choice in the fridge and by sheer laziness- who wants to wait until the blueberries unfreeze? Dried fruit is so last year; the future is frozen fruit! Seriously, frozen blueberries make a really great snack; I went through three little plastic containers in one sitting! I don’t know whether they have the same nutritional value as unfrozen ones though…

Last, but not least, is Brie à la Pringles. This is the one you should make to impress your hot date. You take a thin slice of Brie cheese (yum, my favourite!), but instead of spreading it on a piece of baguette bread, you place it on a Pringle. It tastes good, and you can impress your date by showing him/her how innovative you can be in the kitchen. Remember, fine cheese shows a certain degree of sophistication. A word of caution, however: don’t eat too much for you might cut the cheese (pun intended). There you have it, those are my weirdest snacks. Please share your weird eating habits by commenting on this post. Bon appétit, mes amis!

Procrastination is in my way when I have to clean the dishes, clean my appartement, when I have to clean my clothes, take out the trash, at work…. well I think you get my point…

Most people say: Why don’t you just do it? Well.. That is so easy to say! What is hard is to take the habit of putting deadlines for all your tasks and technology these days make is so easy to procrastinate as there SO many nice things to do on a computer. Hey, the entire internet is at you fingertips! It is so much funnier to go to Youtube than GMail… You also have access to many games on Steam.. and it sit and wait in your sys-tray! Oh I will only play a little game just to realize I just wasted 2 hours to simply do this little “game”. Why don’t I read this good article on my favorite band on Wikipedia? I will surely do the dishes after. Then i will go on LastFM to discover similar bands but I still haven’t done what’s important in my day yet!

Procrastination leads to so many problems in life and this is only the tip of the iceberg on how devastating this can be and I am living proof as many others on this Planet.

Please mister Procrastinate get lost! I want to actually live my life!

Canadian Netflix members will be able to instantly watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes right on their TVs via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix, as well as watching on PCs and Macs.

In addition to representing its inaugural international market, Canada will also mark the first streaming-only service promoted by Netflix.

At the time of launch, the Netflix Canadian service will be available in English only, but the company said it expects to add French language capability over time.

Canadians interested in Netflix can go to www.netflix.ca and sign up to receive an email from the company when the service launches in Canada this fall.

Can’t wait to get this service!

Source

About the Game

Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet’s surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.

Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine.

• Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
• Complete game code and mod tools
• Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
• Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
• 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
• Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
• 64 achievements
• Tile-based map generation tool
• Powered by Source and Steam

Steam

Using all those Google web application is all good but it lack of desktop notifications and you have to open the app in a tab to be able to use it at its full capacity but you still don’t have any reminder popups.

But now with 2 Google Chrome extensions you can have Desktop reminders using the new Google Chrome desktop notification API for you email and Google Calendar events. Google Mail checker Plus and Google Calendar checker Plus have a Desktop notification feature.

I addition to these two other great extension i also use Google Tasks by OpenBit to manage my Google tasks, even without desktop notifications it is still a nice extension to have since it give you a quick way to see/create tasks using the Great Google task feature in Gmail and Google calendar.

Google Mail checker Plus:

Google Calendar Checker Plus:

Google Tasks by OpenBit:

• Google Mail checker Plus
• Google Calendar checker Plus
• Google Tasks by OpenBit

So today i decided to put more discipline in my life and make a post on my blog once a week is my first goal.  It can be more than one a week or every day but it will never be less than one post a week.

I really hope to see you soon! At least Next Monday

The next time you log in and visit the Settings page, you’ll see a rich text editor in the signature section. Here, you can customize your signature by adding pretty formatting, links, and images — or decide to leave things nice and simple.

Gmail also now supports a unique signature for each email address associated with your account. So, if you send mail using a custom “From:” address, you can use a different signature for that address. From the Settings page, you can edit the signature for each account by changing the email address that appears in the dropdown menu.

Currently, only the latest desktop version of Gmail supports rich text signatures and multiple signatures. The older version and HTML version of Gmail, along with the mobile versions, use a plain text version of your primary account’s signature.

The Perfect Server – Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) [ISPConfig 3]

But as i am using Proxmox VE with openVZ it have some little changes to do in the guide so let get it started!

1 Configure the Hostname

At this point you should already have setup the networking here and should be all functional to be able to follow this guide

Edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this:

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.0.100   server1.example.com     server1
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Note: The ip 192.168.0.100 is only an example you will have to put your own ip here

Now run

echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh start

Afterwards, run

hostname
hostname -f

It is important that both show server1.example.com now!

2 Update Your Debian Installation

First make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list contains the debian-volatile repository (this makes sure you always get the newest updates for the ClamAV virus scanner – this project publishes releases very often, and sometimes old versions stop working).

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

[...]
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

apt-get updateRun

to update the apt package database and

apt-get upgrade

to install the latest updates (if there are any).

3 Synchronize the System Clock

It is a good idea to synchronize the system clock with an NTP (network time protocol) server over the Internet. Simply run

apt-get install ntp ntpdate

and your system time will always be in sync.

As you may be running a Debian template you may have to update it’s timezone as this was setup at the template creation to do this you will have to login to ssh of your main system

cd /tmp

nano timezone.sh

And put this in the new file:

#! /bin/bash
for f in `ls /var/lib/vz/private`
do
vzctl exec $f rm -f /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null
vzctl exec $f ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
done

#! /bin/bashfor f in `ls /var/lib/vz/private`dovzctl exec $f rm -f /etc/localtime 2>/dev/nullvzctl exec $f ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtimedone

Note: this is for eastern time if you are in another timezone here is a list of the timezones

Then do:

sh timezone.sh

4 Install Postfix, Courier, Saslauthd, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, rkhunter, binutils

We can install Postfix, Courier, Saslauthd, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, rkhunter, and binutils with a single command:

apt-get install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-doc mysql-client mysql-server courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql sasl2-bin libpam-mysql openssl courier-maildrop getmail4 rkhunter binutils

You will be asked the following questions:

New password for the MySQL “root” user: <– yourrootsqlpassword
Repeat password for the MySQL “root” user: <– yourrootsqlpassword
Create directories for web-based administration? <– No
General type of mail configuration: <– Internet Site
System mail name: <– server1.example.com
SSL certificate required <– Ok

We want MySQL to listen on all interfaces, not just localhost, therefore we edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment out the line bind-address = 127.0.0.1:

nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[...]
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
#bind-address           = 127.0.0.1
[...]

Then we restart MySQL:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now check that networking is enabled. Run

netstat -tap | grep mysql

The output should look like this:

server1:~# netstat -tap | grep mysql
tcp        0      0 *:mysql                 *:*                     LISTEN      6612/mysqld
server1:~#

During the installation, the SSL certificates for IMAP-SSL and POP3-SSL are created with the hostname localhost. To change this to the correct hostname (server1.example.com in this tutorial), delete the certificates…

cd /etc/courier
rm -f /etc/courier/imapd.pem
rm -f /etc/courier/pop3d.pem

… and modify the following two files; replace CN=localhost with CN=server1.example.com (you can also modify the other values, if necessary):

nano /etc/courier/imapd.cnf

[...]
CN=server1.example.com
[...]

nano /etc/courier/pop3d.cnf

[...]
CN=server1.example.com
[...]

Then recreate the certificates…

mkimapdcert
mkpop3dcert

… and restart Courier-IMAP-SSL and Courier-POP3-SSL:

/etc/init.d/courier-imap-ssl restart
/etc/init.d/courier-pop-ssl restart

5 Install Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, And Clamav

To install amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV, we run

apt-get install amavisd-new spamassassin clamav clamav-daemon zoo unzip bzip2 arj nomarch lzop cabextract apt-listchanges libnet-ldap-perl libauthen-sasl-perl clamav-docs daemon libio-string-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ident-perl zip libnet-dns-perl

6 Install Apache2, PHP5, phpMyAdmin, FCGI, suExec, Pear, And mcrypt

Apache2, PHP5, phpMyAdmin, FCGI, suExec, Pear, and mcrypt can be installed as follows:

apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-gd php5-mysql php5-imap phpmyadmin php5-cli php5-cgi libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec php-pear php-auth php5-mcrypt mcrypt php5-imagick imagemagick libapache2-mod-suphp

You will see the following question:

Web server to reconfigure automatically: <– apache2

Then run the following command to enable the Apache modules suexec, rewrite, ssl, actions, and include:

a2enmod suexec rewrite ssl actions include

7 Install PureFTPd

PureFTPd and quota can be installed with the following command:

apt-get install pure-ftpd-common pure-ftpd-mysql

Edit the file /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common…

nano /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common

… and change the start mode from inetd to standalone and set VIRTUALCHROOT=true:

[...]
STANDALONE_OR_INETD=standalone
[...]
VIRTUALCHROOT=true
[...]

Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf to prevent inetd from trying to start ftp:

nano /etc/inetd.conf

Comment out the line beginning with ftp stream tcp:

[...]
#:STANDARD: These are standard services.
#ftp    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-wrapper
[...]

Restart inetd afterwards:

/etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart

Then start PureFTPd:

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql start

As we are in an OpenVZ installation we need to enable some kernel modules into the vps login in the host ssh and shut down your VPS

cd /tmp

nano ftpfix.sh

Copy this into the new file:

VPSID=101

for CAP in CHOWN DAC_READ_SEARCH SETGID SETUID NET_BIND_SERVICE NET_ADMIN SYS_C$

do

vzctl set $VPSID --capability ${CAP}:on --save

done

Note: You need to change the VPSID= value to the one you currently use

You can now start your vps again and continue the tutorial

8 Install MyDNS

Before we install MyDNS, we need to install a few prerequisites:

apt-get install g++ libc6 gcc gawk make texinfo libmysqlclient15-dev

MyDNS is not available in the Debian Lenny repositories, therefore we have to build it ourselves as follows:

cd /tmp
wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mydns-ng/mydns-1.2.8.25.tar.gz
tar xvfz mydns-1.2.8.25.tar.gz
cd mydns-1.2.8
./configure
make
make install

Next we create the start/stop script for MyDNS:

nano /etc/init.d/mydns

#! /bin/sh
#
# mydns         Start the MyDNS server
#
# Author:       Philipp Kern <phil@philkern.de>.
#               Based upon skeleton 1.9.4 by Miquel van Smoorenburg
#               <miquels@cistron.nl> and Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
#
set -e
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/mydns
NAME=mydns
DESC="DNS server"
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
                --exec $DAEMON -- -b
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet \
                --exec $DAEMON
        echo "."
        ;;
  reload|force-reload)
        echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration..."
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet \
                --exec $DAEMON
        echo "done."
        ;;
  restart)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo \
                --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
                --exec $DAEMON -- -b
        echo "."
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0

Then we make the script executable and create the system startup links for it:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/mydns

update-rc.d mydns defaults

9 Install Vlogger And Webalizer

Vlogger and webalizer can be installed as follows:

apt-get install vlogger webalizer

Open /etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf…

nano /etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf

… and change the following line from

#Incremental no

to

Incremental yes

10 Install Jailkit

Jailkit is needed only if you want to chroot SSH users. It can be installed as follows (important: Jailkit must be installed before ISPConfig – it cannot be installed afterwards!):

apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison

cd /tmp
wget http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/jailkit-2.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz jailkit-2.5.tar.gz
cd jailkit-2.5
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf jailkit-2.5*

11 Install fail2ban

This is optional but recommended, because the ISPConfig monitor tries to show the log:

apt-get install fail2ban

12 Install SquirrelMail

To install the SquirrelMail webmail client, run

apt-get install squirrelmail

Then create the following symlink…

ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail/ /var/www/webmail

… and configure SquirrelMail:

squirrelmail-configure

We must tell SquirrelMail that we are using Courier-IMAP/-POP3:

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
———————————————————
Main Menu –
1.  Organization Preferences
2.  Server Settings
3.  Folder Defaults
4.  General Options
5.  Themes
6.  Address Books
7.  Message of the Day (MOTD)
8.  Plugins
9.  Database
10. Languages

D.  Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C   Turn color on
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> <– D

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php
———————————————————
While we have been building SquirrelMail, we have discovered some
preferences that work better with some servers that don’t work so
well with others.  If you select your IMAP server, this option will
set some pre-defined settings for that server.

Please note that you will still need to go through and make sure
everything is correct.  This does not change everything.  There are
only a few settings that this will change.

Please select your IMAP server:
bincimap    = Binc IMAP server
courier     = Courier IMAP server
cyrus       = Cyrus IMAP server
dovecot     = Dovecot Secure IMAP server
exchange    = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server
hmailserver = hMailServer
macosx      = Mac OS X Mailserver
mercury32   = Mercury/32
uw          = University of Washington’s IMAP server

quit        = Do not change anything
Command >> <– courier

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php
———————————————————
While we have been building SquirrelMail, we have discovered some
preferences that work better with some servers that don’t work so
well with others.  If you select your IMAP server, this option will
set some pre-defined settings for that server.

Please note that you will still need to go through and make sure
everything is correct.  This does not change everything.  There are
only a few settings that this will change.

Please select your IMAP server:
bincimap    = Binc IMAP server
courier     = Courier IMAP server
cyrus       = Cyrus IMAP server
dovecot     = Dovecot Secure IMAP server
exchange    = Microsoft Exchange IMAP server
hmailserver = hMailServer
macosx      = Mac OS X Mailserver
mercury32   = Mercury/32
uw          = University of Washington’s IMAP server

quit        = Do not change anything
Command >> courier

imap_server_type = courier
default_folder_prefix = INBOX.
trash_folder = Trash
sent_folder = Sent
draft_folder = Drafts
show_prefix_option = false
default_sub_of_inbox = false
show_contain_subfolders_option = false
optional_delimiter = .
delete_folder = true

Press any key to continue… <– press a key

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
———————————————————
Main Menu –
1.  Organization Preferences
2.  Server Settings
3.  Folder Defaults
4.  General Options
5.  Themes
6.  Address Books
7.  Message of the Day (MOTD)
8.  Plugins
9.  Database
10. Languages

D.  Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C   Turn color on
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> <– S

SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.4.0)
———————————————————
Main Menu –
1.  Organization Preferences
2.  Server Settings
3.  Folder Defaults
4.  General Options
5.  Themes
6.  Address Books
7.  Message of the Day (MOTD)
8.  Plugins
9.  Database
10. Languages

D.  Set pre-defined settings for specific IMAP servers

C   Turn color on
S   Save data
Q   Quit

Command >> <– Q

Afterwards you can access SquirrelMail under http://server1.example.com/webmail or http://192.168.0.100/webmail:

18 Install ISPConfig 3

To install ISPConfig 3 from the latest released version, do this:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-3.0.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=
tar xvfz ISPConfig-3.0.1.tar.gz
cd ispconfig3_install/install/

(Replace ISPConfig-3.0.1.tar.gz with the latest version.)

The next step is to run

php -q install.php

This will start the ISPConfig 3 installer:

server1:/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install# php -q install.php

>> Initial configuration

Operating System: Debian Lenny/Sid or compatible

Following will be a few questions for primary configuration so be careful.
Default values are in [brackets] and can be accepted with <ENTER>.
Tap in ”quit” (without the quotes) to stop the installer.

Select language (en,de) [en]: <– ENTER

Installation mode (standard,expert) [standard]: <– ENTER

Full qualified hostname (FQDN) of the server, eg server1.domain.tld  [server1.example.com]: <– ENTER

MySQL server hostname [localhost]: <– ENTER

MySQL root username [root]: <– ENTER

MySQL root password []: <– yourrootsqlpassword

MySQL database to create [dbispconfig]: <– ENTER

MySQL charset [utf8]: <– ENTER

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
……………………………………………………………………………………………………+++
……………………………………………………………………………………………+++
writing new private key to ’smtpd.key’
—–
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter ’.', the field will be left blank.
—–
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]: <– ENTER
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]: <– ENTER
Locality Name (eg, city) []: <– ENTER
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]: <– ENTER
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: <– ENTER
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: <– ENTER
Email Address []: <– ENTER
Configuring Jailkit
Configuring SASL
Configuring PAM
Configuring Courier
Configuring Spamassassin
Configuring Amavisd
Configuring Getmail
Configuring Pureftpd
Configuring MyDNS
Configuring Apache
Configuring Firewall
Installing ISPConfig
ISPConfig Port [8080]: <– ENTER

Configuring DBServer
Installing Crontab
no crontab for root
no crontab for getmail
Restarting services …
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld.
Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..
Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix.
Stopping SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd.
Stopping amavisd: amavisd-new.
Starting amavisd: amavisd-new.
Stopping ClamAV daemon: clamd.
Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd .
Stopping Courier authentication services: authdaemond.
Starting Courier authentication services: authdaemond.
Stopping Courier IMAP server: imapd.
Starting Courier IMAP server: imapd.
Stopping Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl.
Starting Courier IMAP-SSL server: imapd-ssl.
Stopping Courier POP3 server: pop3d.
Starting Courier POP3 server: pop3d.
Stopping Courier POP3-SSL server: pop3d-ssl.
Starting Courier POP3-SSL server: pop3d-ssl.
Restarting web server: apache2 … waiting .
Restarting ftp server: Running: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-mysql-virtualchroot -l mysql:/etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf -l pam -E -A -u 1000 -O clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log -b -B
Installation completed.
server1:/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install#

The installer automatically configures all underlying services, so no manual configuration is needed.

Afterwards you can access ISPConfig 3 under http://server1.example.com:8080/ or http://192.168.0.100:8080/. Log in with the username admin and the password admin (you should change the default password after your first login):

The system is now ready to be used. Enjoy!

Here are the ISPconfig forums if you need help using it here.

I am panning to make another guide on how to setup a website in ISPconfig 3 so keep coming back for more!

As previously reported the Steam platform is expected to be released on Apple’s OS X operating system by the end of the month. Valve’s entire range of video games, including Half-Life, Left 4 Dead 2 and the yet to be released Portal 2 will be available. It is unknown whether Valve will release Steam for OS X the same day as a release date is yet to be announced.

Valve said the number of participants in the UI update beta exceeded their expectations and also said there were over 25 thousand posts created in the beta user forums.

The beta was dubbed “a huge success” in the announcement and for Steam users who wish to view the new UI they can find out about and download the beta here.

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