How to un-break graphical Java apps under Ratpoison

Finally, the ultimate solution.
Thanks!

Dropbox

I wanted to start using my Ubuntu One on my Debian server. Instead I tried out Dropbox. The installation is straightforward, I followed this guide. I needed to update the init.d script a little (I even updated the wiki @ Dropbox site).
I plan to use my account to store backups of my SVN repository, it's very small at the moment so the free 2GB quota should be enough for me. I will create a script that will compress, encrypt and store the SVN repo to Dropbox.

Update to Squeeze

Just updated to Squeeze. No issues so far, only munin got relocated from /var/cache/munin/www to /var/www/munin .

chmod recursion -- files only

chmod recursion -- files only
A great thread! Learned something new today again.

SFTP on Ubuntu/Debian

I reused this article again, so it's worth bookmarking.
SFTP on Ubuntu and Debian in 9 easy steps

Buzz

Google saved my ass once again..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVqj7TIi-k

Atom - software

A brief followup on the software installed on my Atom PC.
I already mentioned Munin, a great monitoring software, very easy to setup. Even though there is quite a few plugins available in the Debian Lenny package, I have added and/or modified some (openssh, apache_accesses - with added SSL support, enabled graphing for apt).
Ever since I started sshd on port 22, I noticed some password guessing attacks, mostly for root, but also for oracle, guest, test, support, squid, svn. I tried to limit the number of connections via iptables as described here and here. Currently I am testing denyhosts.
I have also installed Apache2 with SSL, subversion, WebSVN (I originally wanted to use Insurrection but failed to configure it).