Google's new terms to reduce spamming is really taking effect

I don't know about you, but in the latest months, I've received a series of requests which follow the same pattern:
LINK REMOVAL REQUEST Dear Website Owner: It has come to our attention that a number of links exist on your domain which send traffic to our website [theirdomain.com].  We have determined that these links may be harmful either to the future marketing and reputation of [theirdomain.com], or to our users. Accordingly, we kindly request that you (A) remove all existing links to [theirdomain.com] from your domain, including, but not limited to the following URLs: http:/

Congratulations to Linagora for a 15M€ contract with French Ministry

Linagora won a call for tender with the French Ministry of Finances for around 15 millions €, covering the maintenance and development for 260 different pieces of software! Congrats. Let's hope Chamilo gets included too :-) See the original article on Le Journal du Net, in French, here: http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dsi/open-source-linagora-avec-bull-signe-avec-la-dgfip-1012.shtml

Varnish: check your config before you restart!

If you're using Varnish cache, you will be familiar with the "service varnish restart" then the "oh, there's a config error and now all my sites are down!". Fear no more: there's a command to check your Varnish syntax before you restart. Just run: $ varnishd -Cf /etc/varnish/default.vcl And it will tell you what's wrong (or at least where the error is). If it prints out all your default.vcl, you're good!

Migrating from Redmine 1 to Redmine 2.1.0 on Debian Squeeze

This is a draft (but unlikely to be improved quickly, so published just in case it might help someone out there). First: see previous post to install Redmine 2.1.0 (just don't execute the second half of data filling and stuff: http://beeznest.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/installing-redmine-2-1-on-debian-squeeze-with-apache-modpassenger/ Second: get inspiration from the upgrade guide here: http://www.redmine

User's mail: My Chamilo LMS is slow

Sir, I am a user of Chamilo 1.8 as my Website is : www.team**.in and i am having about 1300 users registered on that portal but i always face big problem with chamilo 1.8 that when i take test of all users on same day then it stops working. chamilo 1.8 is not able to handle online users more than 40, so i am facing big problem right now. Sir, i want to ask u that should i upgrade or use chamilo 2.1 so that i can handle up to 2000 users online at same time for better output. or please give me the solution for my problem . Waiting for your response! Regards M.K.
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Installing Redmine 2.1 on Debian Squeeze with Apache modPassenger

This article is co-authored by Jérôme Warnier, from work mostly done by him with my occasional support. Kudos go to him. We couldn't find any valuable manual to install Redmine 2.1 on Debian Squeeze, and we sure met a lot of resistance along the way, so we came up with the following step-by-step guide...

Sources of inspiration

We used the following resources as a starting point.

Drupal 7 + HTTPS + Nginx + Varnish + Apache + Boost + APC + Securepages + Drupal

If you happen to develop large sites in Drupal, you might fall upon a case like this one, where different servers (namely at least one reverse proxy and one web server) interact, causing a series of chain reactions every time you change something. It might be frustrating, at times, to try and boost a coordinated system like this, and end up getting your users frustrated because part of it doen't work, when the rest (the part that *does* work) is super-fast.