The past month, the Ubuntu developers have twice released a version of Xserver in the stable(!) branch which did crash computers. Mine crashed once. I herefor decided to go back to debian. Don’t know exactly yet how I’m going to remove ubuntu, install ubuntu and keep all my data. But I’ll figure that out 
I’ll keep you updated…….
The English version of this post can be found here.
Deze post is een samenvatting van deze Engelse post.
Ik wilde alle configuratie panels reviewen geinstalleerd op Debian. Helaas was dit niet mogelijk met Plesk, omdat dit enkel en alleen is voorgeinstalleerd op Suse door Strato. Als ik het zelf wilde installeren (op Debian), dan moest ik eerst een license key aanschaffen…..
Gelukkig bood SWsoft (het bedrdijf achter Plesk) uitkomst. Zij hebben mij een (gratis) license key aangeboden waarmee ik Plesk gewoon kan downloaden en installeren om het e.e.a. te kunnen testen. Dit betekend dat wanneer ik straks thuiskom ik direct dat (#$^Y#%) Suse eraf gooi, en er Debian op zet. Zodat ik Plesk (inclusief de installatie procedure) kan testen op Debian 
De Nederlandse versie van deze post staat hier.
The Dutch version of this post can be found here.
I wanted to review all config panels on Debian. Unfortunately, I could only review Plesk on Suse because it is preinstalled already on my VM. If I wanted to install it myself, I needed to buy it for it’s not possible with the license key offered by Strato to install it myself.
However, SWsoft (the company behind Plesk) helped me out. They offered me a license key to review for free . This means I’m going to install Debian on my VM when I get home right-away, and review Plesk (including the installation procedure) on Debian.
I didn’t really like a hostname alike h961164.serverkompetenz.net. After some strugling with my local DNS system, I was able to get louisiana.hostdelight.com propagated to 85.214.54.92. The reason I chose for the hostname louisiana is simple. I use for every box I own/manage a name of an US state. Louisiana got flooded with water when the hurricane Katrina stroke, and I’m going to flood this (virtual)server with tests and config panels.
Now, I already used the term ‘hostname’, which is by the letter incorrect. For I am not able to set a hostname using (#$@#$) Suse. I tried to edit /etc/hostname, which didn’t exist yet, but it didn’t had any effect. I tried to use /bin/hostname, but, after a reboot it was gone again. I tried the plesk config panel as a last desperate move…. it didn’t work. I replaced all items in /etc/resolv at 127.0.0.1 to louisiana… it didn’t work. Then I found a file called /etc/HOSTNAME (mind the capitals). I opened this one, edited it to louisiana, rebooted my VM… no effect at all.
Just as I’m writing this post, I think of the latest solution I can think of: Make a bash script in /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc*.d/ which sets the hostname correctly after having loaded all core files and stuff. My conclusion might be too early (though, I guess not wrong):
SUSE SUCKS!
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Please not there will not be a Dutch version of this article.
Before starting to test any configuration panel, I thought that I needed some points to pay attention to. This is what I came up with, if you know any other thing for me to look at, let me know….
This list will by the way also be the minimum requirements list when I start making a configuration panel myself.
Dit is een Nederlandse samenvatting van dit Engelse artikel.
This is a summary of the English article here.
Ik kreeg de login gegevens van m’n strato config panel (en daarmee m’n root password) afgelopen vrijdag al. Maar vanwege een klein probleempje ging het veranderen van het wachtwoord niet goed (hoe beschamend het ook is, ik kon niet meer inloggen) :’(
Gelukkig resette Strato m’n wachtwoord, en eindelijk kon ik dan weer inloggen, en zelf m’n wachtwoord veranderen
Volgende stap is nu het bekijken van de huidige installatie met suse 9.3 en plesk, het gaat hierbij dan niet zo zeer om suse, maar om plesk . Daarna komt er – hoe kan het ook anders – debian op.
I got the login details of my strato virtual server past Friday already. But because of a few networking problems at my local workstation (@#$@# dhclient3), I didn’t change the password the way it should have gone. I was suddenly not able to log in any more :’(
Luckily, Strato was able to reset my password. And guess what, I just changed it myself succesfully
Next step now is to take a look at the default installation with Plesk installed. Not because I like Suse nor Plesk that much, but just to review Plesk.
Today I received my Fon router: The Linksys WRT54G. The intension of the Fon project is to distribute a one million routers over the world and set up a wireless network of all these routers.
More (detailed) information can be found at Fon.com