Suprisingly I didn’t read much about Karmic yet. But that will probably change in a few weeks, when its released. I upgraded my laptop and my desktop to karmic in the last week and I am quite impressed. The look & feel improved and everything is integrated very well. Shiny. The desktop just connects… It [...]

When reverse DNS is not available, the sshd reverse lookup is an annoyance. It can be disable it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with the following option: UseDNS no yay.

Today I debugged a wordpress problem and found out wordpress automatically sets variables based on records in the wp_options table. Explains why grep didn’t show the variables in question being set in the code while the variables actually are set. In this case the theme (gear) set some nice options in there and didn’t respect [...]

Nice things that work remarkably easy make me happy. 1) Start Django app python manage.py runfcgi host=0.0.0.0 port=8000 2) Install NGINX apt-get install nginx 3) Configure NGINX The tab indentation got lost but ok: server { listen 80; server_name example.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log; location / { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING [...]

Walter and I got a new laptop from the office. Unfortunately, even though Ubuntu “Jaunty Jackalope” is really great, there are some small issues. The screen detection doesn’t work properly sometimes and so it gives you a messed up resolution regularly (800×600). Although a login and logout fixes it, it is annoying. Fixable with replacing [...]

Setting to change the tmp dir path for your php programs. Configurable per VirtualHost in Apache2. Useful in combination with open_base option. php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /srv/sites/www.example.com/tmp/

Although I was boasting about updating wordpress with subversion before. I have concluded its not needed any longer. The internal upgrade function worked flawlessly. Again. After my theme got broken by the upgrade I discovered the automagical upgrade theme button as well. Voila, a whole new look. Motivates me to blog a little more. Cheers!

On page 1375 of 3288 of refman5.1_en.a4.pdf: In MySQL 5.1.14 and later, the mysql database is not replicated. The mysql database is instead seen as a node-specific database. Row-based replication is not supported on tables in this database. Instead, statements that would normally update this information — such as GRANT, REVOKE and the manipulation of [...]

iFolder seems to get a new push. Even with a community focus. This is a good development. Might be a good alternative for OpenVPN+SAMBA what we use regularly at the moment, for people that need a common share in mixed environments (Linux/Mac/Windows). Or maybe not. Nice anyway. It seems that it will end up in [...]

Once in a while you see a blogpost about a Das keyboard. Although I think blogging about your keyboard is kind of sad, here I go: – I can type nice and fast on it (++) – I think the version with blank keys is silly unless you use a keyboard layout like dvorak. – [...]