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Installing Lighttpd on Centos 6.3 is Easy!

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Overview

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pronounced lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments.
With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) it is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems.And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

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Installing Python / Django on Centos 6.3 is Easy!

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NOTE: This article was rewritten (for CentOS 6.4). please read the updated post.

What is Python?

“Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Its syntax is said to be clear and expressive.” from Wikipedia.

Visit http://www.python.org/

 

What is Django?

“Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” from https://www.djangoproject.com/

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Setup BIND DNS Server on CentOS 7

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Centos Minimal 6.3

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Prerequisities

if you have installed new setup of centos minimal or you haven’t installed yet, you need make, gcc, kernel-devel in order to Install VirtualBox Guest Additions installation script.

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Do something GOOD! with your PC – BOINC on RHEL/Fedora/Centos!

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Boinc

BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources, Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

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CentOS Meteor.js installation tutorial for newbies

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centos meteor.js – A better way to build apps.

centos meteor.js installation tutorial.

Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in afraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.

 

Install Meteor.js

In the following tutorial I’ll show you how it’s easy to install Meteor.js on your CentOS box. I am using centos 6.5 minimal, but those instruction should work on any centos 6.x machine.

 

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Fix cannot find module ‘block-stream’’ in npm Node.js on CentOS 6.3

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Overview

While writing  and exploring on Node.js I did lots of ‘yum remove/install’ for npm node.js.
after a while I realized that npm wasn’t installing anything and just returned an Error: cannot find module ‘block-stream’.
Another thing was that the folder ‘/usr/lib/nodejs/npm’ was lacking the ‘node_modules’ folder which includes its dependencies.
yum remove/install npm didn’t helped, the error also happened when I tried running ‘npm update’ or ‘npm install’.

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