HTTrack A Tool for Blog backup

As I as scoure the Digital Point Boards, i am caught up with the post by Jarodboy on how he can backup his blogs on blogger.

I immediately search for the specific answer from big brother google.

I came up with two links.

And find httrack from httrack.com and it was opensource.

i install it simply on my box by using:

#sudo apt-get install httrack

the synaptics because i am using a ubuntu box recently upgraded to dapper beta version:


as encourage by one of the developers Zak B. Elep.

I finished the installation easily and after seing the last output of the installation i immediately tried the software. it has a wizard in which it will guide you to the process of backing up. It works like a site grabber but has many options.

i like the tool and currently am using it as one of my backup tools.

Easy Apache tomcat installation

By seing and just speaking about the application scares me but this is the solution, if i want to run a java application on a Linux Server. Installation on the Windows machine is much easier but as the project mature it is much easier installing in linux by just downloading two packages:

The First is the JDK from SUN:
JDK5

and Apache Tomcat from APACHE.org:

tomcat-apache-v5

Instructions are simple:

1. Install the JDK with the provided instruction from SUN.
2. Execute the command #export JAVA_HOME=/location/where/the/jdk/is/installed
3. Install the apache-tomcat with the guidance of RUNNING.txt from the extracted binary of downloaded Apache-Tomcat.

Then you are done.

*Apache-Tomcat is not really installed it is extracted then executed by the command:
/location/of/apache/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

If you want to customize the server further you can do it with the help of the documentation on the apache-tomcat site.

Two heads are better than one

Two heads working onto a blog is better than one..i would like to introduce to you "theblight", i will and maybe off for a while so he will be handling the postings and may even share more about his experience in the opensource.