Problem:
You've chosen the most simple, solid Linux server - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and you want to run the most simple, solid XMPP server - ejabberd. BUT, the version of ejabberd in Hardy's repositories is the really old (Sep 03, 2007!) 1.1.4 release.
Solution:
You could of course build ejabberd from source, but that's not why you chose the "It Just WorksTM" Ubuntu server, is it? Have no fear. A simple and (mostly) painless solution awaits!
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Categories: Programming Tags: Administration, Ejabberd, Installation, Instructions, Jabber, Programming, Server, Tutorial, Ubuntu, Walkthrough, XMPP
Nerd alert: This post contains off-the-charts geek humor. You've been warned.
Thanks to my friend who sent me this.
Uber-geeks will recognize "RFC" (yet another TLA) as short for "Request For Comments." But those with lives normal folks might need an explanation.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has created RFC as a standard for documentation of Internet-related subjects. There is an RFC for just about everything, including:
A lot of RFC's are standards, but the vast majority of them are not. Almost all of them, though, are painfully dry reads. That said, there are some glaring exceptions.
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Recap
In case you missed Part 1, I briefly summarized 4 different strategies for programmatically determining the current Operating System in C#. The code I posted there utilizes the System.Environment class. It works great and is sufficient for most uses, but sometimes you want need to know everything about the OS, including the edition (i.e. "XP Pro" vs. "XP Home").
Summary
For that, Microsoft gives us the lovely Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Interface. You can do a lot of really powerful and interesting things with WMI and WQL, but for this purpose, all we care about is getting some information from it.
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