• Debian testing – “wheezy”
• Gnome 3.0+6
• Network Manager 0.9.2.0-1

Issue:

• WLAN works fine with NetworkManager
• Wired Device (ethX) is marked as “unmanaged” and doesn’t work even if it gets DHCP-lease/IP-address
• /etc/network/interfaces looks correct

Solution:

Change /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf :

...
[ifupdown]
managed=true
...

Reload Settings:

/etc/init.d/network-manager force-reload

But what’s about Gnome 3? Really deep changes were made. GTK, that is used, was raised to the next major version and fundamental changes took place in the control concept. These are just two reasons why development is still in a kind of beta status. I think Debian is a better platform for Gnome 3 at the moment than Ubuntu, because Ubuntu comes with several pre-configurations and pre-installations which might mess up working with software not adapted to it. Usually the Debian guys don’t take it too seriously with their release cycles and prefer stability to actuality.

Core:
Debian testing “wheezy” ( dist-upgrade from stable )
Gnome 3.0+6

Installation and configuration went way less direly than expected. All looks new, nice, and fancy and performs very good at first sight. Most of the new features make sense to me and the period of settling in was just a few hours. I don’t understand why they have “loan” so much look and feel from Apples’ MacOS, which they “loan” from others, but if it makes someone happy I’m too.

Things I like:

• All hardware works out of the box – THX Debian
• It seams all functionality approached a few clicks
• The new management of multiple Desktops
• Arrangement of (sub)menus and icons
• Window fit-in by dragging it to the edges of the screen
• The new calendar
• General behaviour and usage of modifier keys
• Stability (no crashes to that point)
• Performance

I needed a platform-independent and comfortable tool for programming. One would say “Use Eclipse” but my past with Java and Eclipse was bad. Or one would say “Use Emacs or Vim, stupid”, true but Linux tools on Windows mostly are pain in the ass. What I finally found was Code::Blocks, available for Linux, Windows and MAC. It’s a nice, fast and in my opinion mighty IDE for C and C++ (other languages via plugins). It needs a bit time to get familiar with it but there are very powerful features making this worthwhile. I don’t want to waste your time anny longer so try by your own.

Little hint: the version receivable from the last Ubuntu LTS is ooooold so download debs from the website.

URL: www.codeblocks.org

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BTW: einschließlich einer sehr jungen Milla Jovovich

1. Install Apache2 and Python
2. CGI-path is /usr/lib/cgi-bin so this is where to put your Python scripts
3. To use the scripts in your HTML files you have to prefix the path to the .py files with /cgi-bin/
4. To generate proper output the first print call in your script has to be

   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"

5. With the python module cgi you are able to access content of the calling HTML form
6. If something went wrong /var/log/apache2/error.log is your friend!

For more information see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html But not everything in there worked for me…
For usage of Pythons CGI module see: http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html

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